Friday Night in Beast House

Mister Layman is a sick sick man I love this book it was great

As always, Laymon does a good job of twisting things around and keeping readers on their toes. This one is great!

"Friday Night in Beast House" is a suspenseful tale of adolescent curiosity and the brazenness that accompanies it. Simplistic, yet masterfully crafted, Laymon effortlessly takes us back to our younger years and the fears that accompanied it. Not your typical haunted house story, Laymon presents us familiar horrors that transcend anything a house or the supernatural could offer. Sixteen year old Mark Mathews has a crush on his fellow classmate, Alison. She'd given him a smile from time to time. She never had an inkling, he was sure, of how he felt about her. And he'd intended it to remain that way until Bigelow - the school bully - spills Allison's school books onto the floor of the hallway. After Mark helps her, he realizes he can't keep his feelings bottled up any longer. He calls Alison after school under the guise of checking on her wounded knee. She answers his question before he has the chance to ask it. Yes. She will go out with him...on one condition: Mark must get inside "Beast House", hide, and wait for her to join him at midnight for their first date. "Beast House", once the scene of unspeakable acts of torture and murder, is now relegated to a mere tourist attraction. The history of the legendary house has become nothing more than myth-fodder for movies, books and gossip. But if this is the case, why does Mark find the carcass of a mutilated animal when he attempts to break in? And once he gets inside, why is the lock on the cellar door gone? Will his fears force him to cry-off their date, or will his eagerness to achieve what was once only a dream prevail? "Friday Night in Beast House" is a part of Laymon's "Beast House" series. It complements the series well, while also standing strong on its own as a stand-alone novel. Laymon's trademark prose, pace and characterization is in full bloom here, pulling us into Mark's world further and further, every terrifying step of the way.

Another brilliant book from Laymon that I absolutely could not put down. people have been complaining about the length - but surely a 160 page book from Laymon is much better than no Laymon book at all? I really enjoyed this book, it was suspencefull and as usual with Laymon books, the main charactor(s) was very likeable. I would definatly recomend this to fans of Richard Laymon especially if you like the Beast House series (you can read this without reading the other three first, though).

Mustering up his courage he finally asks her out; she accepts on the stipulation that he spend FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEAST HOUSE after it closes. Excited he agrees to meet her stipulation hoping this is the ticket to ecstasy even though he knows the day time tourist attraction has been the sight of several ghastly homicides. On Friday night Mark breaks into Beast House. He proceeds to hide in the Beast Hole hoping to quietly pass time and emerge as a hero in the eyes of Alison. However, Beast House earned its reputation for grisly inexplicable murders and soon Mark and Alison will learn even wet fantasies can turn nightmarish in the wrong environs. Richard Laymon's final Beast House tale is a terrific entry in a great series that like it predecessors (see THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR) hooks the audience into a complacency that slowly turns into tension and suspense wondering what will happen next to Mark. The delightful protagonist slowly realizes how much trouble he is in as he learns the truth about Beast House. Not quite at the emotional roller coaster levels of the previous three novels; this tale is a tense gripping thriller that will have readers searching for the previous books. Harriet Klausner

It is still hard to believe that Laymon is not with us anymore. But this is a good finish to the Beast House Chronicles. All the Laymon elements are here. Make no mistake about it. This is a very short novel with very little character development. But there is Beast House, there are the typical Laymon horny teenagers and there is a "Beast". This book does not really cover the events of The Midnight Tourbut Laymon pulls off this fast paced thriller and puts an end to the legacy of Beast House.