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Richard
Laymon is the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels,
including The Cellar, The Stake, Savage, Quake, Island, Body
Rides, Bite, In The Dark, The Traveling Vampire Show, Darkness
Tell Us, and Night In The Lonesome October.
Born
in Chicago in 1947, he grew up in California and received his
degree from Willamette University, Oregon in English Literature.
He graduated with his Master of Arts from Loyola University, Los
Angeles. Laymon
worked as a writer, a schoolteacher, a librarian and a report
writer for a law firm. He married Ann and had one child, Kelly.
Richard Laymon was
awarded the Bram Stoker Award for The Best Horror Novel of 2000 with THE
TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW. His novel Flesh was named Best
Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle and
also shortlisted for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, as was Funland.
Aside
from his numerous novels, he has published over sixty short stories in
magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock and Cavalier
and in anthologies, including Modern Masters of Horror, The
Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime, Night Visions
7, and many, many more.
Tragically,
Richard
Laymon died of a heart attack on February 14, 2001. Dearly loved and deeply respected by his friends and fans in the
horror community, he will be very sorely missed by all.
Rest in Peace,
Richard.
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