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Author name: Richard Laymon

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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780747247838
ISBN number: 0747247838
Label: Headline Book Publishing
Manufacturer: Headline Book Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 246
Printing Date: December 01, 1994
Publishing house: Headline Book Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 543632
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Nothing unusual ever happens in Ashburg, until a local family are mutilated and left to die in their own home. Since then, the house has stood empty, but when mysterious invitations arrive announcing a party there, nobody thinks its a joke. After all, it is Allhallow's Eve.




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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Pretty good. Very fast-paced.
There is no U.S. edition. This is a British edition. That's why it costs more. It's not Laymon's best book, but it is way better than most of the amazon reviewers say. Laymon is one of my favorite authors.

He won an award for outstanding novel in 2001 for the "The Traveling Vampire Show". He was nominated for the novels "Flesh" and "Funland", the collection "A Good, Secret Place," and a great book about writing fiction called "A Writer's Tale".

He was born in 1947 near Chicago. He lived most of his life in California. He's very popular in England.

This book is pretty short at about 250 pages. It's lean and fast-paced.

Read this book if you're already a fan of the author. Otherwise, try one of his other books first. I suggest "Body Rides" or "Island" or "The Stake".

Be careful not to buy the Fastbacks.

Richard Laymon's novels are listed at www.rlk.cjb.net (It's a fan site run by Steve Gerlach.)

All of Laymon's novels are available in the United Kingdom. You can order them from www.amazon.co.uk / Shipping is expensive though, and the free shipping offer is not valid outside of the United Kingdom. Also, the British Pound is more valuable than the US dollar.

American editions of Laymon's novels are available from Amazon.com and some of the British editions are available from Amazon-Canada at www.amazon.ca

On amazon.co.uk this book is listed as "Allhallow's Eve". "Allhallow's" is one word there and two words here. There are other reviews for the book there.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - All Hallow's Eve doesn't hit the mark
I did think a couple of parts were interesting though, where the kid's father, who was the killer in it committed a few murders with a hatchet and locked some of his son's classmates in the haunted house and murdered a few of them, encouraging his son to murder and rape some of the girls.One of the lead characters in it, a police officer was dating the boy's mother and by the end of the book you learn she was murdered too by the boy's father. The cop then begins having a relationship with a woman he met at the local motel in the course of his investigation into the murder of his superior officer. But besides that, the story was pretty weak.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - ALLHALLOW'S EVE
VERY TYPICAL RICHARD LAYMON BOOK. A CRAZY GROUP OF TEENAGERS, PARENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE A CLUE AND A LOT OF BLOOD. ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WITH THIS BOOK WAS THAT IT ENDED TOO QUICKLY AND THE SCENE IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE WAS TOO SHORT.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - A RARE DISAPPOINTMENT FROM DICK
It's a shame that this was the very first Laymon book John K read. No, this is not very good, in fact after attempting to reread it I found the prose amateurish and uninvolving. However Laymon wrote many wonderful books that simply demand to be reread. No doubt you all have your favorites. I particularly recommend:

ONE RAINY NIGHT, RESURRECTION DREAMS (the very first Laymon I ever read), COME OUT TONIGHT, DREADFUL TALES, NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, FLESH and BODY RIDES. So John, pick up one of these books and I guarantee you will be glued to your chair. Dick was (and still is) one of the best.


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