Richard Laymont

THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW

This book is dedicated to Richard Chizmar, owner, manager and coach of the CD Team.

You took us to the show.

RAVE REVIEWS FOR RICHARD LAYMON!

“Laymon lets out the stops in typically ferocious fashion. The Traveling Vampire Show contains some of the wisdom of King’s The Body or Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Lije, but the book belongs wholly to Laymon, who with his trademark squeaky-clean yet sensual prose, high narrative drive and pitch-dark sense of humor has crafted a horror tale that’s not only emotionally true but also scary and, above all, fun.”

—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Laymon always takes it to the max. No one writes like him and you’re going to have a good time with anything he writes.”

—Dean Koontz

“If you’ve missed Laymon, you’ve missed a treat.”

—Stephen King

“What an amazing book! Laymon rides hard and fast and deep. He gives us characters that are absolutely memorable. It’s great. I promise.”

—Mehitobel Wilson, Gothic.net

“The Traveling Vampire Show successfully blends nostalgia with gritty realism and outright Grand Guignol gore. Compulsively readable, it’s a stripped-down page-turner that slowly builds to a bloody crescendo. Laymon is in absolute control throughout.”

—Hank Wagner, Hellnotes

“Laymon is Stephen King without a conscience.”

—Dan J. Marlowe

“Laymon is an American writer of the highest caliber.”

—Time Out

MORE PRAISE FOR RICHARD LAYMON!

“Laymon is unique. A phenomenon. A genius of the grisly and the grotesque.”

—Joe Citro, The Blood Review

“[Laymon has] an uncanny grasp of just what makes characters work. Readers turn the pages so fast they leave burn marks on the paper.”

—Horrorstruck

“Laymon is incapable of writing a disappointing book.”

—New York Review of Science Fiction

“One of the best, and most reliable, writers working today.”

—Cemetery Dance

“I’ve read every book of Laymon’s I could get my hands on. I’m absolutely a longtime fan.”

—Jack Ketchum

“A brilliant writer.”

—Sunday Express

“Laymon’s writing’s super-tight and characters well detailed and believable, which makes the savage termination of so many of them all the more shocking! The unbridled joy of a delightfully fertile and wicked

imagination at work.”

—Terrorzone

“Richard Laymon is a legend in dark fiction circles… a master of the macabre, a man on the cutting edge of the horror genre.

—Scary Monsters Magazine

THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW

Come and see—

the one and only known VAMPIRE in captivity!

—VALERIA—

Gorgeous!

Beguiling!

Lethal!