The Lake

Written by Richard Laymon

Narrated by Stephanie Brush

Leigh is a beautiful girl, eighteen years old, headstrong and rebellious. All she wants from her summer by the lake is a chance to relax and have some fun. And that handsome boy she just met certainly looks like fun. But her summer fling will lead to terror. That night in the old abandoned house will haunt her nightmares for the rest of her life. Eighteen years later, Leigh's daughter, Deana, doesn't know much about what happened to her mother all those years ago, and she doesn't particularly care. She too is looking for fun. What she finds instead is a shadowy figure out for blood -- and his own twisted kind of fun. Killing Deana's boyfriend is just the beginning. Before he's done, both mother and daughter will be plunged into a whirlpool of fear and madness, from which death is the only escape.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books in Motion
• Release date: Nov 15, 2006
• ISBN: 9781596077041

Richard Laymon

A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Until recently, his books were unavailable in the US for more than twenty years. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a heart attack.

Reviews for The Lake

[vee palmer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome book. Narrator replaces “d” sounds with “t” sounds at the end of words which kinda drove me crazy but the story was too good to quit

[Nina Quartuccio · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great book, a little too neat for me. Characters coincidently end up all together at the end and the old good conquers evil sould have added a twist there. But action is prevalent, the twists out side of the family added to the suspense. It never draged so definitely worth the read. Narrator was a little grating but made it interesting. Not too gruesome...if it was I might have done 5 stars.