I continued reading in the hopes that this disgustingness was included in the book for a reason. When he gets home and finds that his family have fled, he breaks into another family’s home, kills the parents and then repeatedly rapes the child.Īt this point in the novel, I was feeling pretty grossed out, but not at all in the way I want to be grossed out. It’s not really believable that anyone would be so stupid, but he’s the bad guy in a trashy horror novel, so I’ll let that slide. The dad gets out of prison and immediately tries to get home to rape his kid again. When I finished my first Laymon book I noted the exact same thing. Ok, the plot is dumb, but that’s not important. You can guess how this ends – the whole gang goes into the Beast House and things turn out horribly for all of them. There, the woman falls in love with a man who is trying to kill the monster.
They run until they end up in a small town that contains a house that has a murderous monster living in it. This is the story of a woman and her child running away from their abusive husband/father. Maybe that makes me a wuss, but I’d prefer to be a wuss than a person that likes reading books about kids getting molested.
I know that horror is supposed to be shocking and all that, but I never want to read about children getting raped. This book is horrible because it’s paedophiley. Yeah, it’s a splatterpunk novel, and it has lots of blood in it, but that’s not why I’m yucking it. I knew it was going to be crap, but I had to read The Cellar to see what all the fuss was about. Things were getting curiouser and curiouser. I then saw another negative review of this book on Mica’s blog. A few months later, I read Stephen King’s Danse Macabre, a history of horror in which the author describes the same book as unsuccessful. I put this book on my to-read list immediately. Then I read a post on Too Much Horror Fiction that mentioned a Laymon book featuring “a mutation where the tip of the urethra can extend as a kind of “mouth,” with its own tongue”. There’s a lot of authors and books out there though, and I wasn’t sure which of Laymon’s books to check out next, so I forgot about him for a while. When I read Richard Laymon’s Flesh a few years ago, I was pleasantly surprised. Feature Books – 1990 (Originally published 1980)
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