The Traveling Vampire Show

De: Richard Laymon

Narrado por: Bob Barnes

When the one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show arrives in town, promising the only living vampire in captivity, beautiful Valeria, three local teenagers venture where they do not belong, and discover much more than they bargained for.

©2000 Richard Laymon (P)2009 Audio Realms, Inc., all rights reserved. Produced by Audible, Inc. and distributed by Audible, Inc. and Brilliance Audio.

Slow, But Intense

A majority of the story is the wind up to the climax. The story is well done and character development is thorough. Awesome read!

Old school Supernatural Entertainment

Coming of age Teen/ Young Adult Supernatural “ol school” tale of particular tastes from another decade but good entertainment in my opinion. While unlikely in the forefront, the background reminds me of the 70’s, although I would’ve been way younger than the kids in this story.
The entire thing is based on “what you are curious about - shouldn’t always be found out”, but you just can’t help it, and you’re clueless or at least somewhat okay with still wanting to find out, but maybe one you hang out with never uses reasoning or his brain so you’re sort of stuck with it. The main character sure wishes he wouldve decided otherwise, as in, what the heck is going on here!
Lol this story is fun and really just kids who possibly let their imagination run away like a freight train, Its all in good fun in the Main character’s mind , except that he’s a typical young person with hormones and he’s at the age where everything is sexual. He only wants to see The vampire chick who’s barely wearing anything, but unlike his stupid friend he’s willing to not risk it by a certain point in the story. But sometimes choices turn into a fuse lit and there’s no stopping it. Eventually - it will explode. And boy does it.
This is pure cheesy supernatural dark matter at its best, and a bit sick at the end. Laymon is awesome at this. You gotta have an open mind. I love this! It’s my favorite Laymon book- he’s pretty weird. But this is plain and simple - Freaking Fantastic! Hope you like it. Keep an open mind and forgot everything you know about supernatural and current times. This is not that!

Richard Laymon is UNDERRATED

I am a huge fan of Richard Laymon, and was excited to see that Audible has a handful of his books! the traveling vampire show is probably his most popular, and Audible has not disappointed! I just wish they would come out with the Beast house books!

What a great tale to keep you guessing..

Most of the Richard Laymon books ive read are horror/gore/wince inducing stories of terror.This was a pleasant break from the usual "wth" bloodfests, and actually had me engrossed in the mystery of a fairground with a dark past.The fairground ties in several terrible moments in the small town, and the main trio of young adults are well aware of the dangers.The insanity of the true intentions of the evil is too unbelievable but also a real type of threat among certain groups of mentally ill believers.Im hoping for an additional book/sequel to this concerning the 'present day' status of certain characters or even how the fairgrounds have changed or drawn more evils to it.This is NOT for the weak of heart and you might as well toss your prudish preferences out the window before beginning.Ill recommended this many but not family because= upbringing (lol)

good production

I read this book first about 12 years ago & loved it. I can't been a fan of this style of writing, bir enjoyed it for what ever reason at the time. not much of a fan now, but I saw this offered on kindle unlimited w the audio & thought "why not?". I remembered much of the story & still laugh ed in the same places, the audio production was much better than i would have expected for this style & age of book. but the writing wasn't 'right' for audio, for me.
still, our was interesting to revisit this book in a new way & filled some time.

Vampires meet Artemis

Richard Laymon’s The Traveling Vampire Show is a tale of coming of age teenagers who want to see a vampire. The show is for adults only, but their attempt at a sneak peek leads to separation and subsequently some strange occurrences. One of the boys’ older sister-in-law manages to get them tickets and thigs go downhill after that with unexpected violence.

Laymon begins with a Dandelion Wine feel to the tale along with various forms of budding sexuality. While the vampire shows seems corny, but situation quickly devolves into an abattoir of horror with the only saving grace due to the presence of a psychopathic killer in their midst.

The narration is well done with decent character distinction. Pacing is smooth.

Great coming of age horror

Don't listen to these negative reviews, I've listen to this book twice it's funny, suspenseful, sexual coming of age.Fun listen

Good core story, but very mixed overall

I wish I liked this as much as I'd expected. I like the core story a lot, but there's so much that makes it feel questionable. It mostly revolves around sex - there's a kind of embarrassing amount of this in the story and the characters' thoughts, which gets to feel a bit uncomfortable as it goes on because the main characters are all underage. And even more so, when it drags adult characters into the mix as well. I'm no prude, but this particular setup just felt too exaggerated and uncomfortable.
A shame, since the story is otherwise enjoyable and the narrator is quite good. Very mixed review overall.

Great narrator

Good story with a great voice to go along with it. Guess I have to type more words to post this review.

Addicting

This book had me addicted from the start. I didn't think it would because it seemed as if it was slow but it kept me intrigued and I couldn't stop listening. It reminded me of The Sandlot combined with Stephen King's, It.