The crowd went plumb wild, and likely would've carted me out of town on a rail if I'd denied her wish.

So I agreed to have her.

So they sent someone off to fetch a preacher.

Jesse climbed inside our wagon. A while later, out she came. The fake blood was gone from her face. And the nasty old tattered dress was gone, too. In its place, she wore a splendid white wedding gown that she'd bought after our Tombstone show. The crowd just oohed and ahhed like they'd never seen anything so glorious.

I'd never seen anything so glorious, myself. She was still banged up some, but looked ever so beautiful.

Pretty soon, along came the preacher.

And marry us he did.

The whole situation was a sight peculiar. But we had us a grand time, and Lazarus sold enough Elixir to keep the Bisbee folks fit as fiddles for at least a century.

We all of us parted and whooped it up till late into the night. Then Lazarus and Ely showed us to a hotel room, and left us there by ourselves.

We had a pa.s.sel of aches and scars and the like, but didn't let them hold us back.

On the bed with Jesse, kissing her, feeling her skin against mine, and finally at last joining up with her-it was all so much finer than I'd ever imagined.

We spent the rest of the night in the room. And all the next day. And all the next night. Food and drink were brought to us. We slept part of the time. Mostly, we didn't.

But it came time to move on.

We found Lazarus and Ely in a saloon, surrounded by other folks who'd been present at the revivification and the wedding. Another party ensued.

Finally, around dusk, the four of us made our rather drunken way to the wagon, boarded it, and set off for parts unknown.

We figured to make the wedding a regular part of the show. But that's getting past the rightful end of our story. Adios Adios, folks. Carry on.

Rave Reviews for Richard Laymon!

"I've always been a Laymon fan. He manages to raise serious gooseflesh."

-Bentley Little

"Laymon is incapable of writing a disappointing book."

-New York Review of Science Fiction

"Laymon always takes it to the max. No one writes like him and you're going to have a good time with anything he writes."

-Dean Koontz

"If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat."

-Stephen King

"A brilliant writer."

-Sunday Express

"I've read every book of Laymon's I could get my hands on. I'm absolutely a longtime fan."

-Jack Ketchum, author of Offspring Offspring

"One of horror's rarest talents."

-Publishers Weekly

"Laymon is, was, and always will be king of the hill."

-Horror World

"Laymon is an American writer of the highest caliber."

-Time Out

"Laymon is unique. A phenomenon. A genius of the grisly and the grotesque."

-Joe Citro, The Blood Review The Blood Review

"Laymon doesn't pull any punches. Everything he writes keeps you on the edge of your seat."

-Painted Rock Reviews

Other Leisure Leisure Books by Richard Laymon:

THE MIDNIGHT TOUR.

THE BEAST HOUSE.

THE CELLAR.

INTO THE FIRE.

AFTER MIDNIGHT.

THE LAKE.

COME OUT TONIGHT.

RESURRECTION DREAMS.

ENDLESS NIGHT.

BODY RIDES.

BLOOD GAMES.

TO WAKE THE DEAD.

NO SANCTUARY.

DARKNESS, TELL US.

NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER.

ISLAND.

THE MUSEUM OF HORRORS (Anthology) (Anthology) IN THE DARK.

THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW.

AMONG THE MISSING.

ONE RAINY NIGHT.

BITE.