Familiar Laymonian archetypes abound, with Trev the cop and John the everyman, along with Maureen the woman who gets abused. It’s fast-paced, action-laden stuff for 400 pages. Everyone caught by the downpour goes on a happy rampage, like it was the most natural thing in the world to drink your neighbor’s blood.
He literally rains down his vengeance, causing a black rain to fall on both the guilty and the innocent. Sadly for the mostly white town, the young man’s grandpa happens to know voodoo.
The story begins a day after a black youth is killed by a bunch of hooligans. Richard Laymon is up to his usual tricks in One Rainy Night, a 1991 novel about a mysterious rain that turns ordinary folks into homicidal maniacs.
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