![]() ![]() ![]() It details what befalls a lovesick young man as he wanders on successive nights through his college town. This is at once one of the eeriest, and one of most immediate, horror novels of recent decades. The poignancy of his death shades into irony because his first posthumous publication (there are more to come) not only features less of the sexual violence that in fact did mar some of his books but also highlights his tremendous strengths as a writer. Some of Laymon's problems with American publishers arose from the downturn in the horror market in the '90s more came from what many considered excess sexual violence in his books. His death carried a particular poignancy because of late, after several years during which he couldn't find an American publisher even as his books climbed bestseller lists in England and Australia, he was enjoying a comeback here, with his current and backlist work being issued by Cemetery Dance and Leisure Books (e.g., his novel The Last Vampire, published by CD in 2000). On February 14, Laymon died of a massive heart attack, at age 54. ![]()
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