Mordock's cave is one of the spectacular wonders of the world... a place where sightseers can take a ride deep beneath the earth's surface to marvel at Nature's handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended—things violent, bestial, and horrific... Now a sudden power failure has trapped a group of tourists in the underground depths. Their only escape route is through a sealed-off wall. But what lurks on the other side is something terrifying beyond belief—an obscene, living evil that has been waiting all these years to be set free...
Author
Richard Laymon was born in Chicago and grew up in California. He earned a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, and a report writer for a law firm, and was the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels. He also published more than sixty short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier, and in anthologies including Modern Masters of Horror. He died from a massive heart attack on February 14, 2001 (Valentine's Day). Also published under the name Richard Kelly
