There is no U.S. edition. This is a British edition. Thats why it costs more. Its not Laymons best book, but it is way better than most of the amazon reviewers say. Laymon is one of my favorite authors. He won an award for outstanding novel in 2001 for the "The Traveling Vampire Show". He was nominated for the novels "Flesh" and "Funland", the collection "A Good, Secret Place," and a great book about writing fiction called "A Writers Tale". He was born in 1947 near Chicago. He lived most of his life in California. Hes very popular in England. This book is pretty short at about 250 pages. Its lean and fast-paced. Read this book if youre already a fan of the author. Otherwise, try one of his other books first. I suggest "Body Rides" or "Island" or "The Stake". Be careful not to buy the Fastbacks. Richard Laymons novels are listed at (Its a fan site run by Steve Gerlach.) All of Laymons novels are available in the United Kingdom. You can order them from / Shipping is expensive though, and the free shipping offer is not valid outside of the United Kingdom. Also, the British Pound is more valuable than the US dollar. American editions of Laymons novels are available from Amazon.com and some of the British editions are available from Amazon-Canada at On amazon.co.uk this book is listed as "Allhallows Eve". "Allhallows" is one word there and two words here. There are other reviews for the book there.
I did think a couple of parts were interesting though, where the kids father, who was the killer in it committed a few murders with a hatchet and locked some of his sons classmates in the haunted house and murdered a few of them, encouraging his son to murder and rape some of the girls.One of the lead characters in it, a police officer was dating the boys mother and by the end of the book you learn she was murdered too by the boys father. The cop then begins having a relationship with a woman he met at the local motel in the course of his investigation into the murder of his superior officer. But besides that, the story was pretty weak.
VERY TYPICAL RICHARD LAYMON BOOK. A CRAZY GROUP OF TEENAGERS, PARENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE A CLUE AND A LOT OF BLOOD. ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WITH THIS BOOK WAS THAT IT ENDED TOO QUICKLY AND THE SCENE IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE WAS TOO SHORT.
