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List of laymons published books
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Night Show - Dani Larson is the Queen of Horror Movie Special Effects. Grisly murders and mutilated corpses are her stock in trade. Nothing scares
her - not even watching herself shotgunned into fragments of butcher shop gore. But now the gore is real, and the woman without fear is in terror of her
life. She is being stalked by the Chill Master, a psychopath who first wants to be Dani's apprentice, then her lover and finally... her replacement. Can
special effects defeat a madman, or is a movie come to life too much for the Queen of Horror?
The Beast House - Welcome to the Beast House. Open the front door and step inside. You will see wax figures of victims from over the
years. Their bodies mangled and chewed. What kind of horrifying creature could do such things? Only the Beast House holds the answer. Is
it just a tourist attraction or is there really something evil in there? Some young people decide to take a chance and expose the truth. What
will they discover? Does the beast even exist? Or is it all just a hoax? Its victims aren't saying. Now it's your turn to find out...
The Cellar- There is something deep within all of us that thrills to tales of violence, vibrates to suggestions of sadistic sensuality
and responds with primitive pleasure to the horror of the unknown. That is why tourist flock to see... the Beast House. At first
look, you see an obvious tourist trap. Your guide is a bizarre old woman who claims her husband and children were butchered
there years ago, and further darkly hints that others have since disappeared. Your fate if you are a man, is a swift and savage
death. If you're a woman, a sexual enslavement beyond your wildest fantasies or nightmares.
Dark Mountain(Tread Softly) - Beware of the hag, in her dark mountain lair. Beware of the shadows; tread softly with care. Speak
only in whispers, don't wander alone. Take heed of the wind's voice, watch out for the crone. She waits and she
wants you. She knows when you're near. Silence won't save you, tread softly with care.
The Stake - For the first time in his career, novelist Larry Dunbar is suffering from writer's block. he seeks out inspiration by exploring a nearby ghost
town. While searching the Sagebrush Flats hotel, he and his neighbor encounter a grisly sight: a shriveled female corpse impaled by a wooden stake. At
first shocked by the image of the corpse, Larry finds himself slowly becoming obsessed. Who was she? Was she really a vampire or the victim of a
hideous crime? The remains provide the perfect cure for Larry's dilemma and he begins writing a nonfiction account of his find. Swept up in his
investigation, Larry uncovers the mystery surrounding the body, which he has identified as Bonnie Saxon - a local high school senior who disappeared
during the summer of 1968. As Larry delves deeper into the mystery, he is assailed by conflicting emotions. Hauntingly real dreams of a vampiric Bonnie
have him wearing a cross, but her angelic yearbook picture fills Larry with passion. As the end of the book draws near, Larry must summon all his courage - and pull
out the stake.
Out Are The Lights - Got a taste for terror? Come and scream with the kids at the late-night movie at The Haunted Palace. Every week a
new victim faces horror while you watch. Who'd ever think movies made right there in our own town could be so authentic-looking? The
blood looks so... bloody. The actors look so scared. And you'd swear all those horrible things are really happening. It's only a movie, but,
wow! Somewhere in the audience, Connie's watching, reading lips because she's deaf. Reading lips, and finding out more than she should
know, discovering a blood-chilling secret that could make her a star when next week's evil episode fills the screen and out are the lights.
The Woods Are Dark - No one drives out of Barlow. No one stays after dark. Except the Delivery Men, who haul like slaves of Satan,
and the girls who can never say no. It was business as usual in Barlow until Johnny Robbins broke the rules and returned to the scene of
The Trees to save the girl he couldn't resist. The Devil had his number now and wouldn't let him escape. But he ran anyway, pursued by
the hounds of Hell. He took the victims, and they ran for their lives from the terror that stalked the woods and ruled the roost in Barlow,
California. A terror that said join us or die!
Beware - When reporter Lacey Allen stumbles upon a carnage of dismembered bodies in her local market, she enters a nightmare beyond
her wildest dreams. She attempts to confront the brutal attacker. But she can't see him. She can only feel him. His hands are all over her
body - feverishly groping her with a perverse passion. More limbs fall, more blood flows, as she remains under his demonic spell.
Escaping, she seeks out help, only to find the Invisible Terror close behind, slaughtering all that stands between them. Black magic has
cast this satanic hex, and only death can free her...
All Hallow's Eve - A standard well-fitted-out bathroom: tiles, towelling rungs on the floor, towels on heated rails, mirrored medicine
cabinet above the basin, a laundry basket in one corner and the usual litter of plastic bottles and aerosols. Rubbing the fatigue out of his
eyes, he lifted the toilet seat. And saw the water, pink-tinged, saw the head staring up at him with empty eye-sockets, the grey hair
floating, shifting as though troubled by a slow current. Retching and gagging, his hand clamped desperately over his mouth, he lurched
across to the shower curtain, ripped it aside and doubled up over the bath. And saw the naked torso, the arms and legs severed and laid
out neatly round it as though for some grotesque kit inspection...
Endless Night - Jody Fargo is a cop's daughter, sweet sixteen but tougher than she looks. She's sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's
house when the killers break in. She sees Evelyn spitted on a spear by a man dressed in human skins. She rescues the only other survivor
of the massacre - Andy, Evelyn's twelve-year-old brother. She kills a man so they can get away. It's just as well that she's hers father's
daughter...
Simon Quirt sounds like a regular guy. Not the kind of fellow who would rape and murder in the dead of night. But, together with his
friends, that's just what he does. Now Simon is alone. His friends, so called, have gone. They've left him to find the only eyewitnesses to their crime
and dispose of them. He has to do it - or they'll slaughter his family. In any case, Simon has his own reasons for sticking around. He can't wait to get
his hands on Jody...
Flesh - The Thing was Hungry! Gently, the man reached around to the back of his neck ans stroked the creature where it lay under his skin. It throbbed
beneath his hand, sendin waves of hunger and desire pulsing through him. Since that night in the abandoned restaurant, when man and monster had
become one, they had but a single desire. Soon, the man thought, soon. Alison will be ours, and we both shall feast. His smile was horrible.
Funland - Welcome to the Funland Amusement Park, where killers get their kicks and horror has a heyday. Meet the Trolls, a gruesome
pack that preys on anyone foolish enough to be alone at night. See the Trollers as they hunt down the Trolls and draw blood in vicious
revenge. Take a wild ride on the Ferris Wheel of Fear, shudder at the Freak Show of Savagery and don't forget the trip-to-end-all-trips
through the one and only Funhouse, a must for anyone with a taste for terror and a thirst for blood...
Midnight's Lair - Mordock's Cave is one of the spectacular wonders of the world, a place where thousands of sightseers
every year take an awe-inspiring boat trip on a lake deep beneath the earth's surface to marvel at Nature's handiwork. But the
darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended - things violent, bestial, and obscenely evil. When a sudden power
failure incapacitates the elevator to the surface, a group of tourists is trapped in the underground depths. Cold and scared,
without lights or food, their only hope is to find an escape route through the sealed-off end of the cavern. But their explorations
uncover a nest of horrors that has lain hidden for generations, and their idyllic underground journey becomes a nightmare trip
through hell, as they find themselves battling for survival against the creatures of the abyss...
Savage - Whitechapel, November, 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known act of butchery in the one-room hovel occupied by the luckless
harlot, Mary Kelly. And beneath the bed on which the fiend is cruelly eviscerating his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy...
This is just the start of the extraordinary adventures of Trevor Bentley, a boy who embarked on an errand of mercy and ran into the most notorious
serial killer in criminal history, a boy who became a man as he travelled on a quest of vengeance across a wild and untamed continent - a boy who
brought the horrors of Jack the Ripper to the New World.
Quake - The big one rocks LA and shakes loose terror and urban chaos that make the LA riots seem like a picnic. In this compelling vision, their are
no Good Samaritans banding together. Rather, the disruption releases human animals far more ghastly than those in your worst nightmare. Clint Banner
and his daughter Barbara are trapped on opposite sides of the city, desperately trying to get home. To travel through post-quake LA has become a
descent into the lowest reaches of hell. Clint and Barbara must survive the roving gangs of homicidal maniacs and their own companions gone beserk.
And, if they do arrive home safely, Stanley Banks might be waiting for them. While father and daughter have been battling the demons outside, Sheila
Banner has been trapped stark naked in the bottom of her tub. Easy prey, one would think, for Stanley, the sociopath-next-door, who delights in this
opportunity to do more than just ogle his beautiful neighbor.
Bite - Sam hadn't seen his first love, Cat, for ten years. But now she's back, asking for help - the kind of help she can only get from a man
who'd do anything she asked. Like kill a vampire. Sam doesn't believe in vampires but he does believe in the bite marks on Cat's body.
And he knows he still loves her. The vampire visits at midnight. Cat waits for him, naked, on her bed. Sam is in the closet with a stake in
his hand and a million questions on his mind. Are Cat's wounds self-inflicted? Is she insane? Or is she setting him up? Sam needn't worry
much longer. He's about to find out the truth. It's almost midnight....
Body Rides - Returning a rented video one night, Neal hears a scream. Ever since the LA riots he has carried a pistol in his car and now
he shoots a man about to kill a young woman. The pair of them flee the scene and Elise insists on giving Neal a reward for saving her life.
The reward is a bracelet in the shape of a coiled snake with emerald eyes - a magic bracelet that enables him to step inside other people,
to see through their eyes and experience their feelings. To take "body rides." Neal accepts the gift and revisits the scene of the shooting
to check on the maniac who tried to kill Elise. But the maniac is not dead - he's alive and breathing vengeance. First he's going to finish
the job on Elise, then he's going to butcher Neal. But this time Neal has the bracelet, and when he's not taking body rides with beautiful
strangers, he's able to step inside his would-be killer's skull...
A Good, Secret Place - this first collection of Richard Laymon's short fiction, contains twenty of the author's finest stories. Included are
more than 35,000 words - fully half the book - of new, never before published material. In this wide ranging collection, Laymon takes on
everything from serial killers to supernatural creatures; from erotic mystery to black comedy. Come along for the ride and enjoy the
skills of a master at work...
Resurrection Dreams - Beautiful young Dr. Vicki Chandler had returned to her home town to begin a practice there. But
things had changed while she was away. The dead were no longer dead but hellishly alive... hideously butchering and ravishing
their victims...their numbers growing with every fresh assault. But that was not the worst part. The worst was Melvin...whom
Vicki remembered as a pathetic high school misfit and who was now the master of this infernal army of night zombies...
animating them through black magic... commanding them to make Vicki the captive of his black-magic lust...
One Rainy Night - The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby. Warm, viscous and unnatural, it coats the inhabitants in an
unending torrent - and turns them into crazy, hate-filled maniacs. A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a
customer's throat and squeezes the trigger. A soaking-wet queue of cinema-goers smashes its way inside the movie house to slice up the
dry people within. A loving wife attacks her husband, bouncing the back of his head on the marble floor until it sounds like sloppy wet
meat...
SHORT STORIES
Desert Pickup - originally appeared in Ellery Queen, 11/70. Reprinted in the collections "A Good, Secret Place" and "Fiends."
Roadside Pickup - originally appeared in Ellery Queeen, 12/74. Reprinted in collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Oscar's Audition - originally published in The Executioner Mystery Magazine under the pseudonym Dick Kelly, 6/75. Reprinted in collection "A
Good, Secret Place."
Paying Joe Back - originally appeared in Ellery Queeen, 9/75. Reprinted in collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Out of the Woods - originally appeared in Ellery Queeen, 12/75. Reprinted in the collections "A Good, Secret Place" and "Fiends."
A Good Cigar is a Smoke - originally appeared in Ellery Queeen, 2/76. Reprinted in collection "A Good, Secret Place."
The Direct Approach - originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 1/77. Reprinted in collection "A Good, Secret Place."
The Champion - originally appeared in Cavalier, 10/78. Reprinted in collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Stiff Intruders - originally appeared in Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, 3/80. Reprinted in the collections "A Good, Secret Place" and "Fiends."
Barney's Bigfoot Museum - originally appeared in the anthology "Creature." Reprinted in the collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Blarney - originally appeared in Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, 9/81. Reprinted in the collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Spooked - originally appeared in Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, 10/81. Reprinted in the collection "A Good, Secret Place."
The Grab - originally appeared in Gallery, 1/82. Reprinted in the collection "A Good, Secret Place."
Eats - originally appeared in Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, 7/85. Reprinted in the collections "A Good, Secret Place" and "Fiends."
The Bleeder - originally appeared in New Blood, Winter 1989. Reprinted in the collections "A Good, Secret Place" and "Fiends."
Mess Hall - originally appeared in the anthology Book of the Dead I.
The Hunt - originally appeared in the anthology Stalkers. Reprinted in the collection "Fiends."
Dinker's Pond - originally appeared in the anthology Razored Saddles.
Night Visions 7 - included the short stories Mop Up, Wishbone, Bad News, and Madman Stan.
The Tub - originally appeared in the anthology Hotter Blood.
Special - originally appeared in the anthology Under the Fang. Reprinted in the collection "Fiends."
Saving Grace - originally appeared in the anthology Cold Blood.
Slit - originally appeared in the anthology Predators. Reprinted in the collection "Fiends."
Invitation to Murder - originally appeared in the anthology Invitation to Murder.
I'm Not a Criminal - originally appeared in the anthology After The Darkness.
Good Vibrations - originally appeared in the anthology Night Screams.
A Good, Secret Place - contains original stories The Good Deed, Joyce, Stickman, The Mask, and A Good, Secret Place.
Phil The Vampire - originally appeared in the anthology Vampire Detectives.
The Fur Coat - originally appeared in the anthology The Earth Strikes Back.
Dracusson's Driver - originally appeared in the anthology Dracula, Prince of Darkness.
Kitty Litter - originally appeared in the anthology Cat Crimes II. Reprinted in the collection "Fiends."
The Maiden - originally appeared in the anthology Dark Love.
First Love - originally appeared in the anthology Love In Vein II.
Fiends - appearing in the collection Fiends.
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