The next two books I got from the Leisure Horror Book Club were This Rage of Echoes by Simon Clark and Savage by Richard Laymon.
This Rage of Echoes
This Rage of Echoes
Author: Clark, Simon
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 342pp.
Pub. Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester Publishing
Also Pub: March 31, 2008 (Hardcover -- Robert Hale, UK)
Links: Simon Clark: Nailed by the Heart
You know the monster's face . . .
The future looked good for Mason until the night he was attacked . . . by someone who looked exactly like him. Soon he will understand that something monstrous is happening -- something that transforms ordinary people into replicas of him, duplicates driven by irresistible bloodlust.
It's the one in your mirror.
As the body count rises, Mason fights to keep one step ahead of the Echomen, the duplicates who hunt not only him but also his family and friends, and who perform gruesome experiments on their own kind. But the attacks are not as mindless as they seem. The killers have an unimaginable agenda, one straight from a fevered nightmare.
Savage
Savage
Author: Laymon, Richard
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester
Original Pub: January 1993 (Trade Paperback -- Headline, UK)
Original Pub: January 1994 (Hardcover -- St Martins Press, US)
Extra: The First Chapter
Original Title: Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper.
Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is hard at work. He's safe behind locked doors in a one-room hovel with his unfortunate victim, Mary Kelly. With no need to hurry for once, he takes his time gleefully eviscerating the young woman. He doesn't know that a fifteen-year-old boy is cowering under Mary's bed. . . .
Trevor Bentley's life would never be the same after that night. What he saw and heard would have driven many men mad. But for Trevor it was the beginning of a quest, an obsession to stop the most notorious murderer in history. The killer's trail of blood will lead Trevor from the fog-shrouded alleys of London to the streets of New York and beyond. But Trevor will not stop until he comes face to face with the ultimate horror.
Leisure Books started reprinting older classic Laymon works last year (or maybe earlier but I noticed it last year when they reprinted the ever-so-hard-to-get book The Cellar) and Savage continues that series. Richard Laymon was an American writer who had more popularity in the United Kingdom than in the United States. Simon Clark is a British writer who is publishing on both continents and gaining a following. Most of his books seem to have been published in the UK first and then later in the US but This Rage of Echoes is an exception. The US paperback came out in November while the UK hardcover was only published last month.
Richard Laymon passed away a few years ago but the website dedicated to him has been kept running next to horror writer Steve Gerlach's website. When I went to visit it, an advertisement popped up and crashed my browser. Until I find out what's going on I'm not going to add the URL for the website Richard Laymon Kills. If someone can enlighten me, please leave a comment.
In the meantime, this was an interesting month. I've read Simon Clark and enjoyed his work. This one looks particularly interesting to me. I'm not as familiar with Richard Laymon as I should be, although he was a major personality in the horror writer community and helped many fledgling writers out. He deserves a better reception in his home country and a better reception from me.
(Originally posted in . . . With Intent to Commit Horror)
This Monday I introduce the two other horror book clubs which will launch a monthly series examining the books I get from each club. See it in in . . . With Intent to Commit Horror
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