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<br><h3> Chapter One </h3> The summer I was sixteen, the Traveling Vampire Show came to town. <p> I heard about it first from my two best friends, Rusty and Slim. <p> Rusty's real name was Russell, which he pretty much hated. <p> Slim's real name was Frances. She had to put up with it from her parents and teachers, but not from other kids. She'd tell them, "Frances is a talking mule." Asked what she <i>wanted</i> to be called, her answer pretty much depended on what book she happened to be reading. She'd say, "Nancy" or "Holmes" or "Scout" or "Zock" or "Phoebe." All last summer, she wanted to be called Dagny. Now, it was Slim. A name like that, I figured maybe she'd started reading westerns. But I didn't ask. <p> My name is Dwight, by the way. Named after the Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He didn't get elected President until after I'd already been born and named. <p> Anyway, it was a hot August morning, school wouldn't be starting again for another month, and I was out in front of our house mowing the lawn with a push mower. We must've been the only family in Grandville that didn't have a power mower. Not that we
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- Author
- Richard Laymon
- Publisher
- New York : Leisure Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780843948509
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (5,789 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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