Melvin's obsession is to resurrect the dead. Melvin Dobbs is the kind of guy that no one likes and everyone likes to pick on and for good reason.

One thing I can say for Laymon, he can be counted on to deliver if you are looking for sick & twisted. This was my first Laymon but definitely not my last! Eyeballs gouged out? Hands burned to a crisp? Half a noggin' gone a-missing? Fear not, one can still get excited and easily grab the nearest breast with nearly a fumble! This, of course, only allows Melvin closer access to her life and causes more trouble (and more grossities!) This book was extremely funny, filled with perverted men & 'resurrected' people who come back as raving sex fiends. So these two brainiacs concoct a plan where Vicki will 'date' Melvin thus shattering his dreams of the perfect 'dream girl' once he realizes Vicki isn't entirely inaccessible to him. Vicki and her friend Ace decide the only way to end Melvin's obsession with Vicki is to shatter the illusion. Now that Vicki is all grown up Melvin likes Vicki a whole lot more and develops an unhealthy obsession and begins serious stalker-like behavior. Melvin always liked Vicki because she was the only person who was nice to him as a teen. Now she's a doctor and headed back to her home town and decides (quite ridiculously, if you ask me) to visit Melvin and get it out of the way. Vicki was unfortunate enough to witness Melvin's first attempt at resurrection when they were teens at the same high school and has had horrible nightmares ever since.

It's quite entertaining in a morbid, dark-humor kind of way. Somehow his most recent *recipe* works and then the fun begins as he's unprepared to deal with the consequences. He uses old tomes with recipes/spells to bring the dead back to life but never truly believes it'll work. Laymon takes twisted delight in creating Melvin, a junk food ingesting geek with an all consuming desire to bring back a woman from the dead. This is an amusingly vile take on the back from the grave plot.

Resurrection dreams richard laymon