Customer Reviews
Laymon cannot write a bad book - By: marky77, 23 Aug 2007 
I read The Beast House in one day while on holiday & as with any Laymon book - it was brilliant. The reason that I have only given it four stars is that the beasts dont reallly enter the book until near the end & there is an unnecessary ammount of charactor development. With another author, this would have me throwing the book away in frustration but Laymon managed to pull it off with his wonderful charactors, cliffhangers at the end of chapters & unique sense of humour.
I would deffinatly recomend this book to Laymon fans, particularly if you enjoyed The Celler (to which this book is a sequel). And if you've never read a Laymon book before please read one, his books are the best!! I would recomend reading Into The Dark, Blood Games or The Woods Are Dark if you have not read one of his books but are interested in doing so.
Love it! - By: , 07 Dec 2005 
This was the very first Richard Laymon book i ever read & i was searching around for it to read again for ages. Finallly got it & decided to read more of his books. This one is by far one of the best. I think the cellar is a little sick for me but true laymon.I say to read this book if you like a bit of gore & have a great imagination.
I loved it so much i have read it about 3 times! I also urge people thinking of reading this to read the cellar first to get to grips about a few things. I read beast house first then the cellar & things made alot more sense. The midnight tour is also good & helps clear things up that happened in beast house.
wow laymon at his best - By: Carly Pye, 11 Jul 2005 this is the second book of the beast house trilogy (1 the celler 2 the beast house 3 the midnight tour) its great i couldn't put it down the discriptions of the beast are so detailed its hard not to imagine a real life beast! i dont want to give to much away but this reallly is brillient
One of the top five Laymon books - By: kubrick205@yahoo.co.uk, 29 Nov 2001 If you have a good imagination this is the book for you. The monsters are like nothing you have ever heard of before & there is always two things happening at once to keep you gripped to the story.
OK, but seemingly unnecessary - By: , 20 Dec 1999 
So I recently got into Laymon, & I've been trying to read as much of his stuff as he could. The idea of him doing a trilogy made me sickly intrigued. I loved 'The Cellar,' but I made myself patiently wait before picking up 'The Beast House.' Yeesh. What a disappointment.
Don't get me wrong, it's still well-written & fairly interesting, but the first 150 pages or so you keep wondering when anything's going to pan out. I mean, we KNOW the beast is real after 'The Cellar,' why do we need new people wondering about it for 100 pages? The only thing it offers is the 'origin' of the beast (and the fact its name is 'Bobo,' which I find horribly amusing).
Overalll, not a bad read, but the tone & pacing is just nothing like 'The Cellar,' or so I thought. Also, a few characters cross over, but I reallly wanted a bit more detail about their lives/deaths than we get here ....
But I'm definitely still excited about reading 'The Midnight Tour' :)
