Dark Mountain: A chilling horror of the macabre and the supernatural
By (Author) Richard Laymon
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Feature
1st June 1992
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
384
Width 113mm, Height 179mm, Spine 24mm
208g
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King.
It was supposed to be a peaceful escape for the two families camping high in the California mountains. But they made the mistake of camping at Mesquite lake, home to two of the wilderness's most terrifying inhabitants: an aged hag with gruesome powers and her depraved son whose unnatural lusts even she cannot control...
Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947 and grew up in California. Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which he won in 2001 with THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW. Among his many acclaimed works of horror and suspense are THE STAKE, SAVAGE, AFTER MIDNIGHT and the four novels in the Beast House Chronicles: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE, THE MIDNIGHT TOUR and FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEAST HOUSE. He died in February 2001.