
Richard Laymon was born in Chicago and grew up in California. He earned a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, and a report writer for a law firm, and was the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels. He also published more than sixty short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier, and in anthologies including Modern Masters of Horror. He died from a massive heart attack on February 14, 2001 (Valentine's Day). Also published under the name Richard Kelly
Series
Books

Savage
1993

Quake
1995

The Halloween Mouse
2001

Out Are the Lights
1982

No Sanctuary
2001

Once Upon a Halloween
2000

Night Show
1984

Guts
1985

The Complete Beast House Chronicles
Four spine-chilling horror novels in one unmissable collection
2012

The Travelling Vampire Show & The Stake
Two thrilling vampire horror novels
2012

Night Games
1985

Bite
1996

Body Rides
1996

Darkness, Tell Us
1991

The Stake
1990

Madman Stan and Other Stories
2004

Come Out Tonight
1999

The Wilds
1998

Bad News
2000

Skull Full of Spurs
2000

To Wake The Dead
2003

Into the Fire
2005

Allhallow's Eve
1985

The Lake
2004

Midnight's Lair
1988

Friday Night in Beast House
2001

Malignos y macabros
22 relatos para tener pesadillas
1995

In the Dark
1994

The Cellar
1980

Flesh
1987

The Richard Laymon Collection
Glory Bus v. 18
2005

The Traveling Vampire Show
2000

The Woods Are Dark
1981

The Return
1986

Funland
1989

Blood Games
1992

Book of the Dead
1989

Cuts
1999

Thin Air
1986

Resurrection Dreams
1988

Alarums
1992

Live Bait
2003

Island
1991

The Midnight Tour
1998

The Richard Laymon Collection Volume 1
The Beast House Trilogy: The Cellar - The Beast House - The Midnight Tour
2006

Endless Night
1993

Night in the Lonesome October
2001

After Midnight
1997

The Beast House
1984

One Rainy Night
1991

Among the Missing
1999