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    Island: A luxury holiday turns deadly

    Richard Laymon

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    'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King

    When eight people are shipwrecked on a deserted island they take solace in the fact that at least they have fresh water, food and firewood. Now all they have to do is sit tight until they're rescued. There's just one problem - they're not alone. In the jungle behind the beach, there's a maniac on the loose and he's plotting to kill them all, one by one...

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    More books by Richard Laymon
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    Dark Mountain
    Quake
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    Beware!
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    Darkness, Tell Us
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    Endless Night
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    Night in the Lonesome October
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    Night Show
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    The Stake
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    After Midnight
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    Alarums
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    Praise for Island

    • 'In Laymon's books, blood doesn't so much as drip as explode, splatter and coagulate - Independent

    • No one writes like Laymon and you're going to have a good time with anything he writes - Dean Koontz

    • A gut-crunching writer - Time Out

    • A brilliant writer - Sunday Express

    • The author knows how to sock it to the reader - The Times

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    Richard Laymon

    Richard Laymon

    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.

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