Meanwhile, in a major, thematically obvious subplot-monsters do exist-a real-life fiend invades Larry's family: Lane's English teacher, handsome Mr. Larry postpones that climax, though, because as he digs out the identity of the body-local high-school cheerleader Bonnie Saxon, a dead-ringer for his own daughter Lane but murdered 20 years back, along with several other girls, by one Uriah Radley-he becomes erotically obsessed with Bonnie, waking up next to her corpse. Is the corpse a vampire? The Colorado ghost town where horror novelist Larry Durban, his neighbor Pete, and their wives find the body is eerie enough, but none of the four believes in vampires-although whoever killed the woman must have thought her a monster, and wouldn't all this make a nifty nonfiction book? So Larry writes several chapters about finding the corpse and about how he and Pete later returned to the hotel and stole the body, now hidden in Larry's garage awaiting his book-in-progress's climax, the pulling of the stake.
Laymon's first hard-cover since his first book (The Cellar, 1980, not reviewed)-and a fine return it is as this high- spirited, prolific horror writer weighs in with a typically brisk and black-humored yarn about what a fellow horror author and his pals do when they find the stake of the title-embedded in a mummified corpse.
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