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<p>Nothing can satisfy the bloodlust of an ancient mummy when it awakens and leaves its coffin. And no one can stop it. You cannot stop what is already dead.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Published last year in the U.K. as Amara, this exuberantly entertaining horror novel is grade-A Laymon, certainly his strongest to be issued stateside since his death in 2001. (When the market for his novels dried up here in the 1990s, this critically neglected author continued to publish and to sell well both in the U.K. and Australia.) As is often the case with Laymon, three plot strands loop through the narrative, braiding at novel's end to garrote the reader. The three are the murderous rampage of a resurrected female mummy in southern California (this plot line also includes an exciting first-person reminiscence set in 1926 Egypt by the man who excavates the mummy from its tomb); the nighttime meditations of a lonely young blind woman in California; and the ordeals of assorted victims kidnapped to an underground prison where they are sexually abused, sometimes slain, by unseen predators when the lights go out. The plot thread involving the mummy is the least interesting, because the stagger

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Author

Laymon, Richard

Publisher

Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780843954685

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.6 / 5 (940 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14