Helpful Score: 8
When Laymon is good, he is very, VERY good...and this is one of his best. The monstrousness of what may or may not be a vampire is not the issue but rather that of a predator that is far more successful than anything occult.
Helpful Score: 8
The story opens as Santa Monica narrator Sam, 26, is visited by old flame Cat: she wants him to kill Elliot, an unwelcome nightly visitor whom she claims is a vampire. Sam agrees, slaying Elliot with a stake in a scene that, typical for Laymon, is bloody, tinged with eroticism and unfolds a whisker away from black humor. The remainder of the novel details Sam and Cat's violent misadventures, including run-ins with homicidal drifters, as they try to dispose of the body. There's some thematic play about the vampire in us all, and Laymon's writing is as crisp and gleefully malevolent as ever.....
Helpful Score: 5
Do you believe in vampires? Might want to hang onto your neck when reading this one. Typical Laymon...good, freaky read!
Helpful Score: 3
Keeps you awake reading to find out the ending.
Helpful Score: 2
This is acclaimed as one of Laymon's best books, and considering that I have not found even one of his books inferior,but a few are superior,such as this one. The vampire is coming-Sam's in the closet with a hammer in one hand and a wooden stake in the other. His former girlfriend Cat is laying on the bed naked--
