Though hard-boiled horror-writer Laymon has enjoyed a brisk career
in mass-market and the occasional hardcover (The Stake, 1991,
etc.), this stomach-churning mix of cannibalism and sexual sadism
is Laymon at his pornoviolent worst - without the irony or manic
glee that lifts most of his work above pulp. What's also here in
spades, though, is Laymon's express-speed writing, an onslaught of
declarative sentences and single-sentence paragraphs that whips the
story along. The narrative opens on a note of sexual menace, as
pretty D'Arcy Raines, a tour-guide at Mordock's Caverns, notices
creepy 15-year-old Kyle Mordock "staring at her rump" during a
tour. Moments later, the power shuts off, plunging the 40 people on
the tour into pitch blackness 150 feet below the earth. A grim
above-ground flashback reveals that the blackout was caused by a
fire set by an enraged man who believed that Caverns' owner Ethan
Mordock had killed his daughter. Other flashbacks, more vicious
still, show that Ethan has indeed for years been snatching, raping,
and torturing women, and that he has just introduced Kyle to the
practice - but that he doesn't kill his victims. Instead, he drops
them down a chute into a closed-off section of the Caverns, where
most are eaten by previous victims but a few survive to go mad in
the dark. When D'Arcy and her charges try to escape by breaking
into this section, a bloodbath ensues, with the cannibals munching
and crunching and the tourists gouging and biting hack, as Kyle
ogles D'Arcy and schemes. Will D'Arcy survive long enough to be
saved by her sexy mom and her mom's new boyfriend, who even now are
spelunking to the rescue? Maybe, but even Laymon's juggernaut prose
can't redeem this off-putting exercise in depravity, which is as
sordid as they come. (Kirkus Reviews)
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King
Mordocks's cave is one of the wonders of the world: a place where,
every year, thousands of sightseers go deep beneath the earth's
surface to marvel at Nature's handiwork. But it's also home to
things Nature never intended - violent, evil things. And when a
power failure traps a group of tourists underground, the creatures
emerge from the darkness...
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