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Richard Laymon
By the Author
The Travelling Vampire Show & The Stake
If vampires stalked the earth... Delve into the terrifying world of Richard Laymon, in two classic horror novels from the master of the macabre. Perfect…
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The Complete Beast House Chronicles
Horrific events have made the Beast House infamous. Do you dare to enter? For the first time in one edition, read all four of Richard…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 18: The Glory Bus & Friday Night in Beast House
THE GLORY BUS One moment Pamela is a contented newly-wed with a loving husband. The next, she's the prisoner of a repulsive killer who has…
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Friday Night in Beast House (Beast House Chronicles, Book 4)
The last novel in the Laymon's BEAST HOUSE series. Michael would do anything to get a date with Alison - anything. Alison has just one…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 17: Amara & The Lake
AMARA The Princess of Egypt, the once beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the first, lies in a museum. She has been dead for 4000 years. Or…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 16: Night in the Lonesome October & No Sanctuary
NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER It's been a long summer for Ed, without Holly. But in September Holly doesn't return to campus. Ed receives a…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 15: The Travelling Vampire Show & 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…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 14: Among the Missing & Come Out Tonight
AMONG THE MISSING It's 2:32am. Behind the wheel of a jaguar sits the beautiful wife of Professor Grant Parkington. She has left Grant behind. The…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 13: Fiends & After Midnight
FIENDS It's only a trip to the movies but it turns into Marty's worst nightmare when she sees the guy sitting behind her. Willy. The…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 12: Body Rides & Bite
BITE Tick-tock, tick-tock... Sam's in the wardrobe. With a hammer in one hand, a wooden stake in the other - and a heart full of…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 11: Island & Quake
ISLAND When eight people go on a cruise to the Bahamas, they plan to swim, sunbathe and relax. But after their yacht blows up, they…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 10: Savage & In the Dark
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…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 9: Endless Night & Midnight's Lair
MIDNIGHT'S LAIR Mordock's Cave is one of those wonders of the world: a place where thousands of sightseers every year taker an awe-inspiring boat trip…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 8: Alarums & Blood Games
ALARUMS Melanie Conway is a pale and lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. When she crashes to the floor during a concert her…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 7: Darkness Tell Us & One Rainy Night
DARKNESS, TELL US It starts at an end-of-term party. Six college kids and a Ouija board. The board that Professor Coreen Dalton had hidden at…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 6: Funland & The Stake
THE STAKE In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 5: Flesh & Resurrection Dreams
FLESH No one in town has ever seen anything like it before: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 4: Beware & Dark Mountain
BEWARE! Elsie doesn't normally shut shop early, but neither is it normal for meat cleavers to fly through the air by themselves, or for Elsie…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 3: Night Show & Allhallow's Eve
NIGHT SHOW When he was in high-school Tony Johnson locked school beauty Linda Allison in a haunted house for the night. Now he has moved…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 2: The Woods are Dark & Out are the Lights
THE WOODS ARE DARK In the woods are six dead trees. The Killing Trees. That's where they take them. Innocent travellers on the road in…
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The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 1: The Cellar, The Beast House & The Midnight Tour
Visitors flock to see the beast house with its blood-soaked corridors. But the worst part of the house is actually THE CELLAR... Bestselling author Gorman…
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The Glory Bus
One moment Pamela is a newly-wed with a loving husband and a comfortable home. The next, she's the prisoner of a killer who has lusted…
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The Lake
Leigh is young, rebellious and beautiful - and she yearns for a summer of excitement by the lake. Maybe she'll find it in the arms…
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Amara
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,…
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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…
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Night in the Lonesome October
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Ed Logan is 20 years old and a sophomore at Willmington University. He's also been…
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Dreadful Tales
Richard Laymon is the undisputed master of the macabre, and nowhere is his talent to terrify shown to better effect than in his short stories.…
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The Travelling Vampire Show
On a hot August morning in 1963, the rural town of Grandville is covered with fliers announcing the coming of something extraordinary - a one-night-only…
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Come Out Tonight
It's a hot, hot night. Too hot to be making love unless your romance is young, like Sherry and Duane's. It's their first time but…
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Among the Missing
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King 2:32am: A Jaguar roars along a lonely road in the Californian mountains. Behind the wheel…
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The Midnight Tour (The Beast House Chronicles, Book 3)
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Horrific events have made the Beast House infamous. For the full story, take the Midnight…
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After Midnight
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Alice enjoys house-sitting for her friend; she has the place to herself, a huge TV,…
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Fiends
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King It's only a trip to the movies but it turns into Marty's worst nightmare when…
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Bite
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King When Sam's ex-girlfriend Cat arrives at his door, he can't believe his eyes. It's been…
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Body Rides
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. When Neal shoots a man assaulting a woman, as a reward the woman gives him…
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Island
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. When eight people are shipwrecked on a deserted island they take solace in the fact…
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Quake
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. Twenty minutes before the quake hit, Stanley was ogling Sheila through his living-room window. Now…
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Beware!
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The supermarket shouldn't have been shut - it wasn't normal for Elsie to quit early.…
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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…
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In the Dark
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Nothing much happens in Donnerville. Then librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a fifty-dollar…
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Night Show
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. When he was in high school Tony Johnson locked school beauty Linda Allison in a…
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The Beast House (Beast House Chronicles, Book 2)
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Bestselling author Gorman Hardy is looking for ideas for his next novel. Tyler is bored…
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Endless Night
Jody Fargo is sweet sixteen, but tougher than she looks - she has to be. She's sleeping over at her friend's when the killers break…
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Alarums
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Beautiful violinist Melanie Conway has visions of death, and when she collapses at a concert…
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Savage
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the…
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Midnight's Lair
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Mordocks's cave is one of the wonders of the world: a place where, every year,…
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Blood Games
Five old college friends meet up every year. This time Helen - the girl with a horror fixation and a fear of being attacked in…
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Dark Mountain
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. It was supposed to be a peaceful escape for the two families camping high in…
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Darkness, Tell Us
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King At a party, six college kids play with a Ouija board - that same one…
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One Rainy Night
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King A dark, warm and continuous rain falls on the town of Bixby, coating the inhabitants.…
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The Stake
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his…
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The Woods are Dark
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. In the woods are six dead trees. The Killing Trees. That's where they take them.…
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Funland
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The seedy resort of Boleta Bay has seen better days, especially since the unexplained disappearances…
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Resurrection Dreams
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Melvin always was a creepy kid. Vicki still has nightmares about what he did with…
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Flesh
Best Horror Novel of 1988 - Science Fiction Chronicle. 'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King. No one had ever seen anything…
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The Cellar (Beast House Chronicles, Book 1)
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The deeper the tourists go into the Beast House, the darker the nightmares become. But…