# The Stake

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-laymon/the-stake/9780747235484

![The Stake](https://quivercdn.com/covers/feature/richard-laymon/the-stake_978-07-4723-548-4.jpg?v=2026-05-18%2023%3A10%3A59)

- Book: [The Stake](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-laymon/the-stake) ([The Stake.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-laymon/the-stake.md))
- Authors: [Richard Laymon](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-laymon)
- Publisher: feature
- ISBN: 978-07-4723-548-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1991-06-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female - with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder? Or was she a vampire? There's only one way for Larry to solve the mystery - he must pull out the stake...