Island

Rupert Conway's getaway cruise with seven others abruptly ends when their yacht explodes and all are stranded on an deserted island. Rupert and the other castaways soon discover that in the dense jungle a murderous maniac--with a clever mind and a taste for blood--is on the loose. He doesn't like his new neighbors and plans to slaughter them--one by one.

A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Until recently, his books were unavailable in the US for more than twenty years. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a heart attack.