The Stake - Richard Laymon

''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...