Alarums (1992)
| Author | Richard Laymon |
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| Illustrator | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | crime, mystery, horror |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 309 |
| Preceded by | Darkness, Tell Us |
| Followed by | Blood Games |
Alarums is a 1992 horror mystery novel by American writer Richard Laymon.[1]
Title
The novel's title, translated simply as "Alarms" in some territories, is a reference to a quote from "The Portent" by Henry Loveworth, which Laymon uses as an epigraph:
"E'en the Daws and Jackals trembled with Afright As strange Alarums, crying Chaos, bruited through the Night."
This connects to one of the main characters’ psychic visions, alerting them to danger affecting their family.
Plot
Melanie is performing a violin solo when she has a psychic vision that results in an epileptic fit. She tells her boyfriend Bodie, an English student, that the last time she had such a vision was when her mother died. Meanwhile, Melanie's sister Pen is being troubled by an obscene caller.
Content
Alarums is an atypical Laymon story due to its lesser focus on extreme sex and violence, although in keeping with his style the main character, Bodie, through whose perspective we see most of the story, comments heavily on the bodies and attractiveness of women around him.[2][3]
References
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