Richard Laymon

Tourists flock to Beast House, but few ever return. Behind the cellar door lurks a creature of pure evil. Out of print for more than 20 years, this is Laymon's most famous book.

The Cellar

First pub. 1981. Horror novel by the author of After Midnight.

The Woods are Dark

The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse.

Funland

On a hot summer day in 1963, teenagers Dwight, Rusty, and Slim (a.k.a. Frances), travel to Janks Field to go to the adults-only, one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show starring Valeria, never expecting what happens.

The Traveling Vampire Show

An unusual black precipitation is having a horrifying effect on the residents of Bixby, California, transforming ordinary people into deranged killers. Original.

One Rainy Night

A luxury cruise. A desert island. A deadly killer. Breath-taking suspense and vivid moments of terror in the gripping horror novel, Island, by Richard Laymon. Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Dean Koontz. 'Shocking stuff. Island is hard-written, blunt and a thriller reader's treat. Laymon enthrals you with no-holds-barred material' - Ipswich Evening Star When Rupert Conway set out on a cruise with seven other people, he planned to swim a little, get some sun and relax. He certainly didn't plan to get shipwrecked. But after the yacht blew up, that's what happened - he and his shipmates were stranded on a deserted island. Luckily for them, the island has plenty of fresh water and enough food to last until they get rescued. And luckily for Rupert, most of his fellow castaways are attractive women. But that's where his luck ran out - because the castaways aren't alone on the island. In the dense jungle beyond the beach there's a maniac on the loose, a killer with a murderous heart, a clever mind and a taste for blood. He doesn't like his new neighbours and he plans to slaughter them all... one by one. What readers are saying about Island: 'His story-telling ability is excellent with characters and shockers to fulfil any reader's desires... it is not long before the sands of this lovely beach are soaked blood red! At one point I remember literally jumping with shock' 'Island blew me away. Right from the very first sentence to the climactic ending, this book is very hard to put down' 'A must read, even if just for the last line'

A luxury holiday turns deadly

Island

In this sequel to "The Cellar," a group of friends and a curious writer dareto enter Beast House, which begins a new nightmare of carnage. Targeted printads.

The Beast House

A sudden power failure traps a group of tourists deep below ground in the subterranean world of Mordock's Cave, with the only escape route through a sealed-off wall, but behind that wall lurks an obscene evil that has been waiting for years to escape. Original.

Midnight's Lair

When a teenage girl is terrorized by a madman out for blood, could it have something to do with what happened to her mother so long ago at the abandoned house out on the lake?

The Lake

Mark and Alison have their first date at Beast House after hours.

Friday Night in Beast House

To learn the real story of Beast House, the site of many unspeakable atrocities, thirteen people participate in a special event called the Midnight Tour that takes them through the blood-soaked corridors where they are plunged into a nightmare from which they can never escape. Reprint.

The Midnight Tour

A man discovers he has the ability to bring people back from the dead, and he's determined to work his magic on the girl of his dreams. But he'll have to kill her first. Previously published by Feature (UK).

Resurrection Dreams

Night Show

College friends Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene all meet up for one week every year. Helen has a taste for horror, and this year she has chosen the Totem Pole Lodge, a deserted hotel in the backwoods with a sinister past. But the girls soon find it is not as deserted as they thought.

Blood Games

Richard Laymon Omnibus

When a group of college students break out an old Ouija board during a party, they unleash the spirit of the Butler, who, in turn for complying with his wishes, promises them a treasure if they journey to a remote area in the mountains where either great riches or unspeakable evil awaits them. Original.

Darkness, Tell Us

Able to read lips, Connie realizes to her horror that the grotesque murder film she is watching is the record of an actual killing

Out Are the Lights

Amara, Princess of Egypt, lies in her coffin in the Charles Wood museum. She's been dead for 4000 years. Or has she? Barney, the nightwatchman, is the first to discover the mummy's coffin has been broken open. It seems grave-robbers are at work, so it's a pity that Barney can't tell the authorities - the dead can't testify to anything. Now Amara is free again and nothing can kill her...

Amara

Whitechapel, 1888; Jack the Ripper is committing his last known act of butchery in the hovel occupied by the luckless harlot Mary Kelly. And beneath the bed on which the fiend is cheerfully eviscerating his victim cowers a 15-year-old boy. This is just the start of an extraordinary adventure.

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