Something deadly has come to town—a slimy, slithering…thing like nothing anyone has seen before. With its dull eyes and its hideous mouth, it's always hunting for a new host to burrow into, and humans are the perfect prey. But the truly shocking part is not what it does to you when it invades your body—it's what it makes you do to others.
Raves and Reviews
2000 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel with The Traveling Vampire Show
1998 Bram Stoker Award finalist in the nonfiction category
"I've always been a Laymon fan. He manages to raise serious gooseflesh." --Bentley Little
"Laymon is incapable of writing a disappointing book." --New York Review of Science Fiction
"Laymon always takes it to the max. No one writes like him and you're going to have a good time with anything he writes." --Dean Koontz
"If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat." --Stephen King
"A brilliant writer." --Sunday Express
"I've read every book of Laymon's I could get my hands on. I'm absolutely a longtime fan." --Jack Ketchum, author of She Wakes
"The master of stomach-churning porno-violence." --Kirkus
"Laymon is, was and always will be king of the hill." -Horror World
"Everything Laymon writes keeps you on the edge of your seat." -Painted Rock Reviews