From
the inside flap
“It is
the summer of 1997. Many years have gone by since Janice Crogan’s summer of horror. The town of Malcasa Point has changed a lot─and so has the Beast House
tour. Due to several popular books and movies about the infamous house of
death, the tour is bigger and better than ever.
“The
self-guided daytime tour, safe for the whole family, gives the sanitized
version of the attacks and murders. If you want the real story, however,
you can get it.
“Just
take the Midnight Tour.
“Every
Saturday night, for a hundred dollars, you and twelve other guests can
participate in the special picnic, private screening of The Horror, and
the tour itself.
“The
tour starts at midnight. Your guide is the spunky young ‘Tuck,’ who knows everything
about Beast House. As she leads you through the gloomy old house, she’ll be
happy to tell you all the most grisly, shocking, lurid details about the beast,
its weird anatomy, and the horrible rapes and killings that have been committed
in the various rooms and corridors, in the attic, in the cellar.
“Don’t
worry, the tour’s a little scary and disgusting, but it’s perfectly safe.
“Usually.”
Review
Warning:
possible spoilers in this review.
One of
the things I like about the Beast House Chronicles is how Laymon approaches
each book from a different, often plot- and character-progressive angle. Sandy,
one of the main characters in The Cellar, is a welcome, major player in
this longer-than-other-Beast books. Like its previous Beast novel, The Beast House, there is plenty of violence, rape-happy monsters, other disturbing
sex and humor. Again, there are some Scooby-Doo-ish, gung-ho characters. This
time out, the vibe is more plot-oriented and characters’ personalities and
characters get more airtime than the horrifying rapes and other sexual
intensity.
If
there is a big flaw in Midnight, it is that the ending is essentially,
almost-word-for-word the same as the finish of The Beast House, with some
rapeable characters being subjected the brutal, bloody and intoxicating (read
the book before you judge that last word) desires of the “bad” characters.
This
is worth reading and owning─if purchased for a few bucks. Followed by Friday Night in Beast House.
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