The Midnight Tour by Richard Laymon - 1998

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Alan M. Clark. A fine, signed limited edition in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Laymon on the limitation page, number 400 of 1000 numbered copies. Crease to inner flap of jacket. Buckram binding. Burgundy endpapers. 600 pp. Octavo. It is the summer of 1997. Many years have gone by since Janice Crogan's summer of horror. The town of Malcasa Point has changed a lot — and so has the Beast House tour. Due to several popular books and movies about the infamous house of death, the tour is bigger and better than ever.The self-guided daytime tour, safe for the whole family, gives the sanitized version of the attacks and murders. If you want the real story, however, you can get it.Just take the Midnight Tour.Every Saturday night, for a hundred dollars, you and twelve other guests can participate in the special picnic, private screening of The Horror, and the tour itself.The tour starts at midnight. Your guide is the spunky young "Tuck," who knows everything about Beast House. As she leads you through the gloomy old house, she'll be happy to tell you all the most grisly, shocking, lurid details about the beast, its weird anatomy, and the horrible rapes and killings that have been committed in the various rooms and corridors, in the attic, in the cellar...Don't worry, the tour's a little scary and disgusting, but it's perfectly safe.Usually." ---publisher's web site