If you plan on reading this book, and you have never read a Laymon book before, please notice that there is generally heaps of gore, really stupid characters, and lots and lots of sex. His literary cannon is likened to the early 80's slasher films... and that's a pretty good comparison. But if mo...
There's a bit of a story here. Browsing through Goodreads, I ran across the page on Richard Laymon and was surprised to see he passed away in 2001.I met him in a science fiction book store autograph party in the 90s. There were only a handful of people there so we had a good hour or two just talk...
Richard Laymon’s 1988 tale “Midnight’s Lair” was his 28th full length novel to be published. The tale concerns a group of thirty sightseers who take an organised tour around an underground cavern named Mordock’s Cave. During their guided tour, the power fails due to a fire breaking out within t...
unnecessary descriptions of child molestation in an odd subplot that is completely inessential to the narrative... sort of makes me question the author's motives. overall, an incredibly overrated piece of crap. however, taken by itself, "giant human/rat monsters who are obsessed with sex" is sort...
Read The Cellar based on my husband's raving recommendation and thought it was really cheesy but I am a nitpicky crab. My husband, who is much nicer a person than I, says they get better as the series continues but we'll see . . .I'm going to read this in December for Jare's 2009 Spills & Chill...
The Midnight Tour is by far my favorite of the Beast House Chronicles which, I’m sure, was Laymon’s intention for all his readers. I still never really got into the whole Beast House thing in the first place though and after the okay first novel and the rather dreary second, I did not have high h...
All Hallow's Eve is an interesting novel for a variety of reasons. It's not your typical Laymon novel. By this time people knew what to expect from him so this to me felt as if he were showing the critics that he was capable of creating a novel that was void of its usual mayhem. Eve is Laymon's a...
It's time to admit an unpleasant truth.Richard Laymon Novels and I are no longer an item.For a good decade beginning in my teens, Richard Laymon was my go-to horror author. I scoured my local library reading anything and everything by him I could get my hands on. My Dad even joined in the fun. We...
Poor Richard Laymon, he was born into the wrong world. The Eskimos live in a world of snow and have a hundred words for it, but Richard Laymon lived in a world of nipples and had only the one word. One single, lousy word. Nipple.Sure, there were 'hard nipples' and 'long nipples', even more exotic...
Another fast paced story from Laymon, perhaps too fast paced. Written in 1982, I think if Laymon had written this a decade later it would be at least 100 pages longer. Great concept, and the main character Connie is good, Dal and Elizabeth intriguing, but Pete was just too right wing. I mean he a...
Sadly, the newest US-published Laymon novel Friday Night In Beast House is a huge disappointment. For starters, it is mistakenly marketed as a novel instead of a novella; the story is 141 pages long. Leisure Fiction is attempting a marketing scheme by adding a bonus novella The Wilds! at 98 pages...
Back through the 90s, I was a big fan of Richard Laymon and picked up most of his novels though after “The Stake”, he fell into the habit of producing brick sized tomes that featured a lot of white space, where not a lot happened in a lot of pages. It’s perhaps indicative that, according to my r...
