Beast House - Richard Layman

Richard laymon at his best! Strange going ons in a small town with one major attraction, The Beast House. A house where a family has been killed and is no a museum to there deaths. I guess in a few years they may open Fred West's House!!! Over the years of reading Laymon I have grown to enjoy his style of writing. A number of subplots that only aim to confuse you the reader and the gory violence that makes you want to close your eyes. But your imagination runs wild when your eyes are shut! This particular offering will have you needing to finish the book before you can go to sleep at night. A great read and would make a great movie ...  Read the complete review

The Beast House is the sequel to The Cellar, and is a sequel in the truest sense - it continues the story of the original, rather than just being a rehash to cash in on the first book's success. It's difficult to describe the plot without giving away the ending of The Cellar, but it involves another group of people's encounter with the Beast House at Malcasa Point. Laymon has clearly made an effort to make this novel dovetail with the first, and he succeeds well, for example making one of the stars of The Beast House a friend of an apparently incidental character who dies at the beginning of The Cellar. This gives the novel a feeling of being an ongoing ...  Read the complete review

"Author Gorman Hardy is invited to Malasca Point to write a book based on the diary of Lily Thorn, one of the original owners of the house now known as Beast House, and a major tourist attraction. Two friends decide to visit Malasca. On is aiming to mend a broken heart, and the other is looking for romance. But Malasca Point is not the place to find fame, fortune or love. But it is the place to find pain, bestiality, and death, in the house known as Beast House." The Beast House is just as addictive as other Richard Laymon books. Every page kept me enthralled and interested, right to the end. The first time I read this, I read it quite ...  Read the complete review