Out Are the Lights

By Richard Laymon

Book Overview

The vampire movie came first - the girl died in a welter of blood as the vampire bit clean through her jugular. Then came the spider film, followed by the story of the axeman. This was a horror movie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747235813
• ISBN13: 9780747235811
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Headline
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.6"

Customer Reviews

A good read

They have 5 short stories at the end which are good also!

Brilliant, as always

As with all Richard Laymon books, this is brilliant, addictive and very difficult to put down. The novel itself is fairy short at around 230 pages but this just adds to its fast-paced nature. The people who run a local cinema are making snuff-movies using out-of-towners and similar who come into town. I cannot really say much more about the plot because the book is so short and because there are many plot twists, but it is very good. As well as the main story, we also get 5 short stories afterwards, which are all equally good. I particularly enjoyed the last story, "The Tub".

Classic Paranoia Theme

A race related murder triggers a black rain. Those that come in contact with the rain go into a murdurous rampage. The book follows the stories of a few groups of people trapped by the rain. How they discover the black rain and how they protect themselves from those inflicted. Stephen King wrote a similar short story.