Savage, Richard Laymon
Savage, Richard Laymon
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Savage

Author: Richard Laymon

Narrator: Peter Bishop

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/28/2016

Synopsis

Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the bed on which he’s butchering his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy. So begins the adventures of Trevor Bentley: a boy who embarked on an errand of mercy and ended up on a quest for vengeance a boy who will bring the horrors of the Ripper to the New World.

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 Adam on May 07, 2014

Quite a good adventure/horror romp for Laymon. I put off reading this one for a while, after hearing it was one of his lesser efforts. I got invited to do a buddy read, though, and so I figured what the hell? I really loved the beginning; it was fun (and often laughable) to read the story as written f......more

Goodreads review by Jon on February 25, 2025

Laymon gets literary. Savage is not the book I expected it to be. What does Jack the Ripper have to do with it? It jumps into the time period of the 1880s and proceeds to give us the author's version of a teen boy's coming-of-age novel. Two parts Dickens and Jack London pastiche, and one part splatt......more

Goodreads review by hotsake on November 25, 2021

This was not what I was expecting from Richard Laymon. I like Laymon's works but this was pretty much a straight western with little in the way of horror. Maybe I'm alone in this but I was getting some serious Little Big Man vibes while reading this.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on May 08, 2018

I have ever wonder why Jack the Ripper was never caught ? Here it is the answer brutal horrible & fantastic this really something special . I found this one of the best books on what could have happened. This a Chase across the Wild West about pure evil with twists & turns that you don't expect if l......more

Goodreads review by Brendon on December 01, 2023

Review to come after its discussed in the Richard Laymon Book Club. 3.5 stars down to 3 for GR.......more

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