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Night in lonesome october richard laymon6/30/2023 But Ed takes little notice, venturing out again and again, hoping against hope that he might spot the mysterious pony-tailed girl he saw that first night. ‘Be careful, okay?’ says Eileen, a fellow student who has the hots for him. Out here even the most innocent of events have a significant and often sinister side. He does this by going out for a long walk one night, at first wandering aimlessly, then heading in the direction of Dandi Donuts a few miles away.īut Wilmington can be a very strange place at night, especially in October – during the run up to Hallowe’en. She’s now happily shacked up with a guy she met over the summer, leaving a broken-hearted Ed to cope with her betrayal the best way he can. The story begins when university student Ed Logan discovers that Holly, his girlfriend from last year, is not returning to complete her education. A very sobering thought, I’m sure you’ll agree. Apparently a few manuscripts were found after his death, but Night in the Lonesome October (which takes its name from Poe’s ‘Ulalume’) was the last book Laymon personally delivered before his untimely death. I felt very sad as I read this book, not because it’s a weepie (as if!), but because it’s one of the last books we’ll ever see from the late Richard Laymon, who died of a heart attack in February 2001.
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