First published in 1985.
Re-issued by Samhain Publishing in 2016
This sleepy town may never recover from this nightmare. Every town has as a past but the grizzly murder of the Sherwood family is one the small town of Ashburg barely recovered from. The Sherwood house has remained vacant for years so who is sending out invitations for a party there? The townspeople are intrigued and who can resist a party at the murder house on All Hallow's Eve?
This title was previously published in 1985.
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Looking back through my list of "read" Richard Laymon books, I can definitely see a trend. I think I always go into his books with high hopes that this will be the one to scare me, only to be extremely disappointed. Well, it happened again. All Hallow's Eve started out really promising but in the end it just didn't deliver.
I thought the first part of the book was interesting. The last 2/3...not so much. The killer was revealed about 1/3 of the way into the book. So, that took away a lot of the suspense for me. The ending was so abrupt that all I could think was, " That's it?". It was like there wasn't even a reason for the killings other than gratuitous gore and violence. This book was originally published before the author died, so I can't chalk it up to an unfinished manuscript. I'm sure there are better books by this author out there, I just haven't found one yet. Have you?
About the Author:
He also published more than sixty
short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and
Cavalier, and in anthologies including Modern Masters of Horror.
He died from a massive heart
attack on February 14, 2001 (Valentine's Day).
Also published under the name
Richard Kelly.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83937.Richard_Laymon
Amazon: http://amzn.to/29nTro2
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