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Richard Carl Laymon (January 14, 1947 – February 14, 2001 [1]) was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. Life and career [ edit ]
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Gets my vote as the best of 2000 by a long chalk." (Although Laymon was an American writer, throughout his career his books were more popular in the United Kingdom, a fact he blamed on a botched, heavily edited American release of his second novel, The Woods Are Dark.)
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 .
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."
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 Woods Are Dark is a 1981 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon. It was one of his earliest published works, and one he credited with having all but destroyed his publishing career in the United States. An uncut version of the novel was released by Cemetery Dance Publications in July 2008.
The Midnight Tour is a 1998 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon, originally released by Feature Publishing.It is the third chapter in the author's "Beast House Chronicles" series, preceded by The Cellar in 1980 and The Beast House in 1986, and followed in 2001 by the posthumously published novella Friday Night in Beast House.