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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 ]
In 1998, Cemetery Dance Publications printed two limited edition hardcover versions of The Beast House under ISBN 1-881475-39-5.It featured new art by Alan M. Clark, and it features signatures from Richard Laymon, and Alan M. Clark.
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."
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.
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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.
Dreadful Tales is a collection of short horror stories by American cult writer Richard Laymon. Published the year before his death it collects twenty-five stories, most previously published in magazines.
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 ...