Richard Laymon

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1950
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Beast House Chronicles

1 - The Cellar (Feb-1980)
4 - Friday Night in Beast House (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Dawson's City

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  • Shootout at Joe's

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  • The Cellar

    Beast House Chronicles - 1

    When her brutal ex-husband is released from prison, Donna, along with her daughter, goes on the run, and unwittingly heads straight towards Beast House, a place with a history of butchery and sadistic sexual enslavement where a creature of pure evil ...

  • The Woods Are Dark

    Neala and her friend Sherri only wanted to do a little hiking through the woods. Little did they know they would soon be shackled to a dead tree, waiting for Them to arrive. The Dills family thought the small hotel in the quiet town seemed quaint and...

  • Out Are the Lights

  • Caller

  • Live Bait

  • Lonely One

  • Beginner's Luck



  • Night Creature

  • Night Show

  • Tread Softly

  • Return

  • Flesh

    A community is unknowingly beset upon by a slimy, tube-shaped monster that invades victims and takes over their will, forcing them to attack others. By the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Dark Mountain and The Woods are Dark. Repri...

  • After Midnight

    Alice has quite a story to tell you. That's not her real name, of course. She couldn't give her real name, not after all the things she reveals about herself in this book. All of her...adventures. And all that killing. She wouldn't want the police to...

  • Resurrection Dreams

    Haunted by memories of a deranged boy named Melvin, who attempted to bring a dead body back with power from a car battery, Vicki returns home years later and encounters Melvin, who, just released from the institution, has special--and horrifying--pla...

  • Night Visions 7

  • Funland

  • The Stake

    Discovering the murdered body of high-school senior Bonnie Saxon, who was impaled by a wooden stake through the heart, writer Larry Dunbar learns of a madman's obsession with ridding the earth of vampires. Reprint....



  • Special

    in Under the Fang

    THEY'VE WON... They came in the night, to the towns and cities. Like a slow, insidious virus they spread from house to house, building to building, from graveyard to bedroom and cellar to boardroom. They are ancient and deathless, sun-shy and bloodt...

  • Kitty Litter

    in Cat Crimes 2
    • / General Fiction
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    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...

  • Alarms

  • 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 h...

  • Allhallow's Eve

    'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The Sherwood house has been deserted since the horrific killing of a local family in the sleepy town of Ashburg. When invitations to a mysterious party to be held there are sent out, nobod...

  • The Quake

    A major earthquake in Los Angeles traps Clint Banner and his daughter on opposite sides of the city, while bands of homicidal maniacs roam the streets and their pathological, sex-crazed next-door neighbor stalks Clint's wife...

  • Cardiac Arrest

  • Wilds

    Ned Champion had just been dumped by his girlfriend, Cora, but that's no reason to cancel his backpacking trip into the Lost River Wilderness Area. He'll just go without her. And he'll keep a journal of his adventures. He's bound to have a fine time....

  • The Midnight Tour

    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 w...

  • Cuts

    Obsessed with cutting pretty girls, Albert Prince leaves a bloody trail across the country as he encounters several woman who are looking for something special in their lives, and he is more than willing to give it to them. Original....



  • Bite

    It’s almost midnight. Cat’s on the bed, facedown and naked. She’s Sam’s former girlfriend, the only woman he’s ever loved. Sam’s in the closet, with a hammer in one hand and a wooden stake in the other. Together th...

  • Come Out Tonight

    Sherry's getting nervous. When Duane left for the 24-hour Speed-D-Mart, he said he'd be back in ten minutes. But that was twenty minutes ago, and that store isn't someplace you'd generally want to go at this time of night. Then Sherry hears a noise f...

  • One Rainy Night

    The strange black rain falls like a shroud on the small town of Bixby. It comes down in torrents, warm and unnatural. And as it falls, the town changes. One by one, the inhabitants fall prey to its horrifying effect. One by one, they become filled...

  • Bad News

  • Skull Full of Spurs

    Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns is a gorgeously produced limited numbered edition (1000 copies), with cover art by Allen G. Douglas and an introduction by Norman Partridge. Following each story is a complete bibliography of the autho...

  • The Traveling Vampire Show

    When the one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show arrives in town, promising the only living vampire in captivity, beautiful Valeria, three local teenages venture where they do not belong, and discover much more than they bargained for. Original....

  • Among the Missing

    At 2:32 in the morning, a Jaguar roars along a lonely road high in the California mountains. Behind the wheel sits a beautiful woman wearing only a skimpy, revealing nightgown. She’s left her husband behind. She’s after a different kin...

  • Once upon a Halloween

  • Night in the Lonesome October

    Everything changed for Ed that day in the fall semester when he got a letter from Holly, the girl he loved. "Dear Ed," it began, "I will always cherish the times we had...." Holly was in love with someone else. It was as if his whole world had change...

  • Friday Night in Beast House

    Beast House Chronicles - 4

    When Mark and Alison sneak into Beast House, a place once home to unspeakable acts of brutality and murder, they soon discover that the gruesome legends surrounding this evil place are real. Original. 200,000 first printing....



  • In the Dark

    Featuring an introduction by Dean Koontz, a gripping tale of suspense follows young librarian Jane Kerry, who discovers an envelope containing money and instructions signed by the Master of Games, as she is hurled into a dark world where she must pla...

  • The Halloween Mouse

    The Halloween Mouse is a wonderful adventure story for readers of all ages from the legendary Richard Laymon ! This oversized deluxe hardcover features amazing full-color artwork by Alan M. Clark throughout and is printed on glossy page stock....

  • Island

    Featuring an introduction by Dean Koontz, a chilling novel follows Rupert Conway, who is unexpectedly stranded on a deserted island with his shipmates, but this island paradise soon turns into a hotbed of horror when a diabolical maniac, with an unqu...

  • Ten Bucks Says You Won't

    in The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

    An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • Darkness, Tell Us

    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 g...

  • No Sanctuary

    Rick would do anything for his girlfriend Bert. He’d even spend his vacation in the wilderness, walking the trails around Fern Lake. After what happened last time, it’s the one place in the world he’d prefer not to go. But Bert i...

  • To Wake the Dead

    Barney is the first to make the shocking discovery that the mummy's coffin has been broken open. But he doesn't have a chance to do anything about it. Amara is once again freed from the cramped confines of her coffin, free to walk the earth, free to ...

  • Blood Games

    Five friends are forced to confront great evil in the form of a homicidal maniac when they gather at the Totem Pole Lodge, a deserted resort with a disturbing history, for their annual reunion. Original....

  • Halloween Hunt

    The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and ...

  • The Hearse

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  • Body Rides

    Neal has been carrying a gun in his car lately -- just to be safe: And it looks like it's a good thing he has. When he spots a woman tied naked to a tree and a man ready to kill her, he has no choice but to shoot the attacker. As a reward, the woman ...

  • Madman Stan and Other Stories

  • Endless Night

    Sixteen-year-old Jody and her best friend Evelyn's twelve-year-old brother escape from a bloody massacre that claimed the lives of Evelyn and her parents, while Simon is forced by the killers to hunt these two witnesses down, and, if he fails, his ow...

  • The Lake

    Leigh is forced to confront her horrifying past when her eighteen-year-old daughter Deana, while hanging out at the lake during the summer, is tormented by a sadistic killer who plunges them both into a world of terror and insanity, making them beg f...

  • Into the Fire

    Kidnapped by a maniac... Pretty, young Pamela was a very happy newlywed, with a loving husband and a beautiful home. But all that changed the night Rodney broke in. He's been obsessed with Pamela since high school, and now he intends to make her h...

  • The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 1: The Cellar, The Beast House & The Midnight Tour

  • Dreadful Tales

    THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW is coming to town and Dwight, Rusty and Slim are determined to go. But it's for over 18s only. They decide to go and watch the crew set up anyway, hoping to catch a glimpse of Valeria, billed as 'the only known vampire in ...

  • Beast House

    The Beast House has become a museum of the most twisted and macabre kind. On display inside are wax figures of its victims, their bodies mangled and chewed, mutilated beyond recognition. The tourists who come to Beast House can only wonder what sort ...

  • Savage

    Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is hard at work. He's safe behind locked doors in a one-room hovel with his unfortunate victim, Mary Kelly. With no need to hurry for once, he takes his time gleefully eviscerating the young woman. He doesn...

  • Beware

    Elsie knew something weird was happening in her small supermarket when she saw the meat cleaver fly through the air all by itself. Everyone else realized it when they found Elsie on the butcher's slab the next morning--neatly jointed and wrapped. An ...

  • Dark Mountain

    For two families, it was supposed to be a relaxing camping trip in the California mountains. They thought it would be fun to get away from everything for a while. But they're not alone. The woods are also home to two terrifying residents who don't ta...

  • Richard Laymon's Night Show

    The late Richard Laymon is considered one of the most influential horror authors of all time, and his classic novel Night Show clearly displays a writer whose career was destined for success. As one of his earlier works published in 1984, Night Sh...

  • Alarums

  • Amara

  • The Glory Bus

  • The Travelling Vampire Show

  • Fiends

    • / Horror
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    Out on a date at the movies, Marty is horrified to see Willy, the man who broke into her house and raped her 10 years before. Now that he is out of jail, Willy is out to get Marty. Fiends is the lead-off novella in this collection of horror stories...

  • Savage : From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of J

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Award-Winning Books by Richard Laymon

The Traveling Vampire Show
2001 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Laymon has published 67 books.

Richard Laymon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Alarums, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Richard Laymon, Shootout at Joe's, was published in January 1950.

Yes. Richard Laymon has 1 series.
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