The Stake 1st UK Hardcover     True 1st World Hardcover PUBLISHER: Headline 1990     Publications 1987 DJ PRICE£ 13.95 (Hardback) DJ PRICE£ 7.99 (Paperback) ISBN 0-7472-0327-X (Hardback) ISBN 0-7472-7967-5 (Paperback)

The Stake Uncorrected Proof PUBLISHER: Headline 1990 ISBN 0-7472-0327-X

The Stake 1st US Hardcover PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1991 COVER PRICE: $19.95 ISBN 0-312-06016-5

The Stake Uncorrected Proof PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1991 ISBN 0-312-06016-5

The Stake 1st US Paperback PUBLISHER: Zebra 1995 COVER PRICE: $4.99 ISBN: 0-8217-4897-1

"My name is Lawrence Dunbar. I am a writer of horror fiction..."

So begins Larry Dunbar's new book and just for once it is a true story - a frightening account of his own experiences.

"Somebody hammered a pointed shaft of wood through the heart of a woman. He left her inside a lidless coffin, and hid her corpse beneath the stairway of an abandoned hotel in the town of Sagebrush Flat."

Now Larry is personally involved in this ghoulish mystery and the evidence is rotting in a coffin in his garage with a stake through its heart. For once real life has the author by the throat, leading him inexorably to the moment when he must put himself on the line. Was the woman in the coffin an innocent victim of a callous murderer - or was she a vampire? There's only one way for Larry to find out. He must summon all his courage - and pull out the stake...