“You knew him? A fellow of infinite jest. Quite chapfallen.”
“A prick” said Lilly.
Lander laughed. “What ho! What ho! So merry-a-day” he sang, and carried her toward the cabin.
“On the local front, a twelve-man search-and-rescue team has failed to return from the wilderness area west of Barlow where, last week, a sheriff’s posse vanished without a trace…”
About the Author
RICHARD Laymon is the author of over 30 novels and 65 short stories. Though a native of Illinois and a long-time Californian, his name is more familiar to readers in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, as well as much of the rest of the world where he is published in fifteen foreign languages. He has written such acclaimed novels as
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