The Traveling Vampire Show is a 2000 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon

Richard Laymon

Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...

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Plot

Set in 1963, the book follows three 16 year olds on an idle summer day. The narrator Dwight and his two best friends Slim, a tomboy female, and Rusty, an overweight best pal, find signs for an exotic Vampire Show. Laymon weaves a tale part horror, part coming of age in one of his better reviewed works.

Film adaption

The Indie filmmaker Chris Sivertson

Chris Sivertson

-Biography:Sivertson's debut feature film The Lost adapted Jack Ketchum's celebrated crime novel and has become a cult classic. His follow up film, I Know Who Killed Me starring Lindsay Lohan, was not well-received by critics and it won several Golden Raspberry Awards...

wrote the script for the movie adaption of the novel and direct the film which is planned for 2011.