Horror Aficionados discussion

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Resurrection Dreams is my favorite. It is so over-the-top all the way through.
Melvin is the most inept villain I've ever read.

The Cellar is one of the most disturbing books ive ever read!

I just finished Richard Laymon's new one called "Flesh".It was ok.If anyone wants it let me know. i will send it to the first responder.

I loved Endless Night. I was sometimes scared to sleep at night :P

Speaks the nightbird, that two book set in puritan america during the time of the salem witch hunts. Wonderfully created people

Patty 1952 wrote: "I just finished Richard Laymon's new one called "Flesh".It was ok.If anyone wants it let me know. i will send it to the first responder."

I would love it!

Anna, I adore Speaks the Nightbird, but couldn't get into Queen of Bedlam for some reason. It's good I just labored over reading it and finally put it aside. Mr. Slaughter should be out soon. I love the Matthew Corbett character.

There's more corbett in other laymon books?

Robert McCammon wrote the Corbett books.

I really like Robert McCammon,I read the one book and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it.But

Boy's Life? Swan Song? What's it about?

Tressa wrote: "Boy's Life? Swan Song? What's it about?"

Swan's Life, boy that was many years ago.Thank You

d'oh! I meant mccammon!

Ha ha. I knew what you meant. Sometimes my brain works funny, too. Maybe moms have it worse?

My favorite is "In the Dark", but it's also the first Laymon book I read, so that might have something to do with it. Also really liked "Resurrection Dreams" and "Island".

My first was also "In the Dark", and I loved it. I also really enjoyed the Beast House books, and "Night in the Lonesome October."

I've never heard of this Laymon book. Man, he's written a lot of books.

I've only read three and I've decided to stop there. Bite was rather good. One Rainy Night was average. Among the Missing was abysmal.

Scott, I started Among the Missing years ago and had no desire to finish it. I just have zero sympathy for drivers who pick up hitchhikers. WTH are they thinking?

Some of them may be aliens looking for a food source.

It's good you didn't finish that Laymon novel, because it made no sense at all in the end.

Oops. I deleted my spoiler. I was just so excited someone other than me read this book.

The Cellar was pretty nasty at parts.

Tressa wrote: "Oops. I deleted my spoiler. I was just so excited someone other than me read this book.
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It was a great book. I forget how I heard about it.

Maybe I told you about it?

No, I read it long before I got on here.

i'm reposting what i wrote on the current reads thread. i just read The Cellar in 6 hours flat, i take it from earlier posts there are sequels? what are the titles, and do they stand up to the first?

Kelly wrote: "i'm reposting what i wrote on the current reads thread. i just read The Cellar in 6 hours flat, i take it from earlier posts there are sequels? what are the titles, and do they stand up to the first? "

I answered this on the other thread. I'll add though there's a fourth part called
Friday Night in Beast House it's Novella length but I haven't read it, It generally gets pretty bad reviews though.

I remember reading a long time ago that the first Laymon you read will be your favourite and I think that's pretty much true. The Cellar, imo, is one of his best. The sequels are worth reading; I found the second book dull but it really delivers toward the end and I really liked the third part.

I usually give a 4 star rating to Ricard Laymon books but gave 5 stars to the following:
The Traveling Vampire Show
The Stake

These, I would have given 4.5 stars if I could have, not quite worthy of a full 5 stars:
One Rainy Night
The Woods are Dark (the Leisure edition)

I also read:
Midnight's Lair
Dark Mountain
The Cellar
The Beast House
Darkness, Tell Us
Endless Night
Among the Missing
Triage

My least favorite to date:
Come Out Tonight

My first was Endless Night and I will never forget it!

We have the same tastes. I have enjoyed most of his books, but my favourites too are The Stake and The Travelling Vampire Show. Although it's not fiction, I would also include my treasured copy of A Writer's Tale.

I really enjoyed The Stake

I've heard good things about Endless Night. I'll need to pick it up soon.

One Rainy Night is a fun ride. I think out of all Laymon's books I hated Endless Night the most. Very violent and pointless with zero style. Just my two cents.

Shaun wrote: "We have the same tastes. I have enjoyed most of his books, but my favourites too are The Stake and The Travelling Vampire Show. Although it's not fiction, I would also include my treasured copy of ..."

They are classic, no? Both are very horrifying without the gore. I do like gore, but to scare without it, always good! Both are also vampire tales, but not really... if you've read them, you understand what I mean.

Tressa wrote: "One Rainy Night is a fun ride. I think out of all Laymon's books I hated Endless Night the most. Very violent and pointless with zero style. Just my two cents."

Yes, Endless Night was very violent, but I liked it because it got such a strong reaction from me. I like it when a book can do that. And I'll never forget those psychotic young men, the horrible things they did!

One Rainy Night was awesome. It played out like a movie in my head. The good ones usually do. If I can't visualize it, I can't get into it.

One Rainy Night, Quakeand The Traveling Vampire Showare the ones i enjoyed the most.

What's that Laymon novel about an earthquake and a girl trying to get back home? It was pretty good, too.

One Rainy Night and Island

Tressa wrote: "What's that Laymon novel about an earthquake and a girl trying to get back home? It was pretty good, too."

it's called Quake

I like Laymon & will be reading more of his stuff but I have noticed, just in the few I have read.. The men & boys are usually a bunch of Horny Toads.

Oh, God. Here we go again. :) At least it isn't me saying it this time.

I just read a book by another horror author and I have come to realize that these men don't know how to write women at all. They create their perfect woman (the woman in the book I just read is a supermodel nymphomaniac working on a Ph.D. in sex...stop laughing) which rings false for a lot of readers. Instead of scary the book was comical.

Tressa wrote: "Oh, God. Here we go again. :) At least it isn't me saying it this time.

I just read a book by another horror author and I have come to realize that these men don't know how to write women at all. ..."

Read Barkers female characters then... he's gay so it's not like your going to get the typical guy female character.

I know it's not every horror author who uses women characters as objects to violate and further their plot. I'm just in a pissy mood. Can you tell?

I think it’s pretty rare that an author can actually write well for the opposite sex, and I’m always impressed when they can. Colleen McCullough did a great job of it in First Man in Rome. Incredible book, by the way.

I haven't read her in ages. She's a good writer.

I need to get back to that series, but the size of the books always makes me tired.

Tressa wrote: "Oh, God. Here we go again. :) At least it isn't me saying it this time.

I just read a book by another horror author and I have come to realize that these men don't know how to write women at all. ..."

Try "Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin... Someone else I know read it & thought it was a woman writing it. The man does tap into the female in that particular book...
Stephen King's "Carrie" comes pretty close

As much grief as I give Stephen King, he does write women well. Always has. Delores Claiborn is his best, IMO. If you didn't know better you would think a woman wrote that book. He really tapped into how nasty and vile young women can be in Carrie. I think some of those bitches went to my high school.

I am currently reading Endless Night. I don't have very much Laymon experience so I thought I would catch up.