Product Description

Vicki was the only one to stand up for Melvin, but even she had to admit he'd gone to far when he dug up a body and then tried to bring it back to life with the aid of a car battery. Years later, and now released from a mental institution, Melvin is back and after Vicki - or rather her body.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #550390 in Books
• Published on: 1990-06-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

A little high voltage is required
Although this falls wide of Laymon's usual high calibre gore mongering there is plenty here to keep most readers entertained and still begging for more at the end.
The real let down is the leaden and copy-book characters. Melvin Dobbs, the deranged and bullied town psychopath, the amazonian best friend, Ace, and the whiter than white heroine, Vicki Chandler. You really don't find yourself rooting for any of the characters in this book, which is a shame as making you believe this people and these situations exist is usually Laymon's strong point.

Leaving that aside the plot itself with well-crafted with its expected peaks and troughs and Laymon's ability to jump from a scene of supreme high tension to one of crushing mundanity is as compelling as ever, those troughs giving you time to restore your heartbeat to normal working order before he hits you with the next ace up his sleeve.

The whole idea of being able to bring the newly dead back to life is well executed and there are no shades of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein lurking behind the drapes to spoil it for you either. The monsters in this book are the people, not the "zombies".

Not Laymon's best but if you have read his works before you will get a kick out of it. If you haven't try another one or three first, this one may put you off before you have sampled one of his better efforts.

Ever wonder what people get up to in their homes?
Well after this you'll wish you hadn't asked! My first Laymon novel and I still think about the fact that someone might acyually be like Melvin! A complete physco! This novel will leave you hugging the toilet bowl, wanting to throw up! A typical novel by Laymon, and an excellent read! The unbelievable becomes believable and Richard Laymon stays the best horror writer about!

Resurrection Dreams
excellent service. book arrived within a couple of days, in very good condition. would definitely purchase from this seller again.