Ads
related to: richard laymon written works of christ ministries free books read
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Laymon believed that this was a result of a badly-edited first release of The Woods Are Dark, which had had over fifty pages removed. The poor editing and unattractive cover art also stalled his career in America after the success of The Cellar. Starting in 1999 and an association with Leisure Books, Laymon found delayed recognition in his ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
In his non-fiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, Stephen King shows dislike of the novel: "There are haunted-house stories beyond numbering, most of them not very good (The Cellar, by Richard Laymon, is one example of the less successful breed)." (However, King would go on to praise Laymon's writing, a pull-quote attributed to ...
The book contains supernatural elements alongside the more realistic horrors common to Laymon's work (including homicidal maniacs, rape, and childhood sexual abuse). This article about a horror novel of the 1990s is a stub .
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 ...
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.