
Dana despises Roland due to the fact that he has some pornographic photos of her that Jason took. Roland is a college student with a fetish for gore and horror whose roomate Jason is dating Dana. Ron tries to attack Jake but Jake shoots him in the head. Jake notices this and goes in to tell them off, only to see Ron has killed Peggy and is eating her flesh.

Peggy doesn't listen and tells Ron to help her fix up the inn after dark. Suspecting that the driver had an accomplice, he goes to the nearby hotel known as the Oakwood Inn and warns the owners Ron and Peggy that they should close early. Jake Corey is a police officer investigating the crash when he notices a trail of blood exiting the van and disappearing into the fields. The driver doesn't look where he's going and crashes his van and dies. PlotĬelia Jamerson is an English-major student out cycling when she is ambushed by a psychopath who tries to run her over in his van. No one in town has ever seen anything like it before: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh, with dull staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth.īut the real horror is not what it looks like, or even what it does to you when it burrows greedily into your flesh, but what it makes you do to others. It was paired up with Resurrection Dreams in volume 5 of the Richard Laymon Collection. Flesh is a novel by Richard Laymon first published in 1987.
