Richard Laymon, Author . Cemetery Dance $35 (161p) ISBN 978-1-58767-034-3
In February of this year, Laymon, then president of the Horror Writers Association, died of a heart attack at age 53. A few weeks ago, the last of his novels to be published before his death, The Traveling Vampire Show, won the HWA's Stoker...
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Richard Laymon, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (260p) ISBN 978-1-58767-012-1
Laymon and Halloween. That sounds like a perfect mix, with the author of the gleefully malevolent The Traveling Vampire Show (Forecasts, Apr. 24) taking on the spookiest night of the year. But his fans know that Laymon can be erratic, sometimes...
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Richard Laymon, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (540p) ISBN 978-1-58767-000-8
Like the vampire he celebrates so often (Stake, etc.), this talented writer's career, once dead in the States though not overseas, has risen anew--thanks largely to Cemetery Dance, which has issued his work (Cuts; Come Out Tonight; etc.) even as no...
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Richard Laymon, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (0p) ISBN 978-1-881475-64-4
The Laymon renaissance continues with this provocative author's third novel (along with Come Out Tonight, Forecasts, May 31, and Bite, Forecasts, May 24) to appear this spring/summer. None of the three showcase Laymon at his finest (as did last year'
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Richard Laymon, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (600p) ISBN 978-1-881475-40-8
One of the authors most affected by the domestic turndown in the horror market in the 1990s is Laymon, who published many novels, mostly mass market, here in the '80s. He remains popular in the U.K. and Australia, with new books appearing there...
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Richard Laymon, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-312-13150-0
In this above-average disaster thriller, Sheila Banner is looking forward to a long, relaxing bath when a massive earthquake hits southern California, trapping her in the tub, naked but intact under two fallen beams. Meanwhile, Sheila's husband,...
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Richard Laymon, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (440p) ISBN 978-1-881475-62-0
There's not a crime novelist around who writes cleaner prose than Laymon--and few who can jack up the tension the way he does. Yet despite his popularity overseas and a minor resurgence here (Bite, Forecasts, May 24), his readership has of late been
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Richard Laymon, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-312-08845-3
Fast-paced and tightly constructed, this novel by the author of The Stake combines the best elements of psycho-slasher thrillers, disaster epics and classic supernatural horror tales. When a power failure traps a tourist group deep in Mordock's...
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Richard Laymon, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-10537-2
Relating a gruesome story through the first-person narrative of an ingenuous 15-year-old boy, horror novelist Laymon ( The Stake ) appears to aim at the complex tone of Huckleberry Finn . He doesn't even come close, although that parallel might...
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Richard Laymon, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (441p) ISBN 978-0-312-06016-9
A novelist worries about the stake driven through the heart of a presumed vampire in this chilling horror story by the author of Flesh. Larry Durban, his neighbor Pete and their wives find the body of the young woman hidden in the basement of a...
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Richard Laymon, Author Headline Book Publishing $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7472-6072-1
The shocking discovery of a woman's body naked and headlessDalong the shores of the Silver River in Sierra County, Calif., sets off a series of interrelated events that will have readers guessing about the killer's identity until the final pages of...
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Richard Laymon, Author Leisure Books $7.99 (378p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4550-8
One of the benefits of Dorchester's ambitious horror line--the only such line from a major American publisher--is the return of Laymon to domestic mass market. Laymon's vigorous, daring tales were popular here in the 1980s, but recently he has been...
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Richard Laymon, Author . Leisure $7.99 (438p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5180-6
Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old...
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Richard Laymon, Author . Leisure $24 (374p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5450-0
When Laymon (Island
, etc.) died in 2001, he left behind numerous unpublished novels that Leisure has been issuing. This one is good but not great, combining the savagery of his earlier work (Beast House
, etc.) with the spooky wonder of his later...
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Richard Laymon, Author , intro. by Stanley Wiater, afterword by Don D'Auria. Cemetery Dance $40 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58767-078-7
The only surprises in this nifty story collection from Laymon are the intentional twists in nearly every tale. Laymon cognoscenti will get just what they expect from this celebrated and castigated writer: shock, suspense, sexual violence and prose...
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Richard Laymon, Author . Leisure $6.99 (467p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5181-3
In the early 1990s, as the horror market bottomed in the U.S., several established American authors, including Laymon (To Wake the Dead
, etc.), were unable to find domestic publishers for their work. Laymon continued to hit bestseller lists...
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Richard Laymon, Author , intro. by Dean Koontz. Leisure $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5104-2
Published last year in the U.K. as Amara, this exuberantly entertaining horror novel is grade-A Laymon, certainly his strongest to be issued stateside since his death in 2001. (When the market for his novels dried up here in the 1990s, this...
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Richard Laymon, Author . Leisure $6.99 (333p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5103-5
Only three months after the posthumous release of Laymon's Darkness, Tell Us
and nine months after the publication of his Night in the Lonesome October
comes another gripper. This one is a curiosity, because it reads like two novellas stuck...
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Richard Laymon, Author . Leisure $6.99 (392p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5047-2
When horror author Laymon (Island) died in 2001, he left behind several unseen novels (and all signs indicate that he, unlike some other dead authors who continue to publish, actually wrote these books). This newest is middling Laymon—which...
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On February 14, Laymon died of a massive heart attack, at age 54. His death carried a particular poignancy because of late, after several years during which he couldn't find an American publisher even as his books climbed bestseller lists in...
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Richard Laymon, Author, Alan M. Clark, Illustrator Cemetery Dance Publications $25 (36p) ISBN 978-1-58767-047-3
Here's another Halloween offering from Cemetery Dance, which, with last year's anthology October Dreams and the forthcoming anthology Trick or Treat, plus last year's Richard Laymon novel, Once Upon a Halloween, is emerging as a notable publisher
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