The Lake

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Leigh is young, rebellious and beautiful and she yearns for a summer of excitement by the lake. Maybe she ll find it in the arms of the handsome boy who rows her out to the abandoned beach house. Or maybe she ll stumble into a legacy of terror which will shatter her life...

Eighteen years on, Deana has no knowledge of her mother s troubled past and not that much interest. She just wants to make out somewhere cool with her boyfriend to let her hair down and live a little. If only living were that simple. But that summer at the lake casts a long shadow. And when the horrors of the past meet the perils of the present, both mother and daughter are plunged into a nightmare of blood and terror from which there is no escape.

Author Bio

Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He grew up in California and took a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon, and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a mystery magazine editor and a report writer for a law firm before working full-time as a writer. Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which he won in 2001 with THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW. Richard Laymon wrote many acclaimed works of horror and suspense, including THE STAKE, SAVAGE, AFTER MIDNIGHT and the three novels in the Beast House Chronicles: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR. He died in February 2001.