Beware, Richard Laymon
Beware, Richard Laymon
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Beware

Author: Richard Laymon

Narrator: Charles Bice

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

Using ancient black magic, a dangerous, vindictive maniac is made all-powerful by his ability to become invisible. Raping and murdering his way around the States, he is biding his time before fulfilling his one desire—to get even with the high school belle who rejected him years before.

About Richard Laymon

A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Until recently, his books were unavailable in the US for more than twenty years. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a heart attack.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on February 10, 2024

A deadly killer on the loose. A reporter named Lacey being followed and witness to bloody murder. A group of deadly cultists? What is going on here and who is the murderer? Can Lacey's supporters help her to stay alive? Well, a typical Laymon with reference to Bonnie and Clyde. All male characters a......more

Goodreads review by Kaisersoze on July 11, 2017

Fast-paced, economically worded, sleazy, nasty, crazy, utterly unbelievable, and still "rump" obsessed (I counted its use 10 times in this one), Beware! is a lesser Laymon throwback. How many other authors could construct a narrative that mixes a supernatural cult, a mysterious presence in a market......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 09, 2014

Beware is a decent early Laymon novel which was not easy to put down. There was absolutely no filler at all. Some of Laymon's best books suffer from that middle of the book sag, but this one was a perfect example of a quick and easy read. A warning to sensitive folks: this book was filled with rape s......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 12, 2013

3.5/5 When life is at its most hectic, death is a funny thing to read about. Not in the sense of pain and personal loss found in literary fiction, but in the cartoonishly violent, crazy world of horror paperbacks. We get to approach death, shake hands, but do it on terms that seem more fantastic than......more