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Richard was president of the Horror Writers Association (2000-2001). The tribute anthology, In Laymon's Terms , [ 3 ] was released by Cemetery Dance Publications during the summer of 2011. It featured short stories and non-fiction tribute essays by authors such as Bentley Little , Jack Ketchum , Gary Brandner , Edward Lee , and many others.
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The Cellar is a 1980 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon.It was Laymon's first published novel, and together with sequels The Beast House, The Midnight Tour, and the novella Friday Night in Beast House, forms the series known by fans of Laymon as "The Beast House Chronicles."
Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by American writer Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. [1] It was first published in Great Britain and was not released in the United States until 1993, where it was distributed by St. Martin's Press .
Laymon is most often associated with "splatterpunk", a subgenre of horror fiction that came about in the 1980s and focuses on extreme and transgressive material. Laymon in particular was known for the presence of sexual violence in his stories, although Night and some of his other later books are notably more muted in this respect.
The book contains many similarities to Laymon's other novels, including surprising (and often outlandish) plot twists, a sexually depraved villain, portrayal of the heroines as beautiful, strong, and almost Amazonian in stature (despite also being depicted as vulnerable and scantily clad throughout much of the proceedings), and first and foremost, the characterization of Rupert, the ...
Publishers Weekly described Blood Games as "middling", like "so much of [Laymon's] mid-career work". The review concluded by saying that it is a "brisk but routine entertainment from the controversial author". [1]
Among the Missing is a crime novel by American author Richard Laymon. It was first published in 1999 by Headline Publishing . The book is a detective story about an investigation into the murder of a woman whose decapitated body is found on a beach.