The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 2: The Woods are Dark & Out are the Lights

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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 California. Seized and bound, stripped of their valuables and shackled to the Trees. To wait. In the woods. In the dark...

OUT ARE THE LIGHTS The Vampire movie came first, then the story of the Axeman. This was the horror movie series to end them all. Cinema buffs admired the grainy, amateur camera work - it suggested the action was the real thing. But it couldn't be - could it

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If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat - Stephen King

No one writes like Laymond an you're going to have a good time with anything he writes - Dean Koontz

A brilliant writer - Sunday Express

In Laymon's books, blood doesn't so much drip, drip as explode, splatter and coagulate - Independent

Author Bio

Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He grew up in California and worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a mystery magazine editor and a report writer for a law firm before working full-time as a writer. Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which he won in 2001 with THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW. Richard Laymon wrote many acclaimed works of horror and suspense, including SAVAGE, AFTER MIDNIGHT and the Beast House Trilogy: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR. He died in February 2001.