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W.H. Allen, London, UK. 1988. irst edition released by W.H.Allen, which published hardcover horror at a time when few other hardback publishers would dare touch the genre. Most of Dean Koontz's early British hardcovers were issued by W.H. Allen, as were several novels by Richard Laymon and Shaun Hutson. This is a superb copy in immaculate boards, a pristine spine, super clean pages and a superlative, crisp dust jacket. AS NEW AND FULL OF POST-PUNK CHIC.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Laymon was born and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois, then lived in Tiburon, California, as a teen. He graduated from Redwood High School, then pursued a BA in English Literature from Willamette University in Oregon and an MA in English Literature from Loyola University in Los Angeles. His works include more than sixty short stories and more than thirty novels, a few of which were published under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. Twenty of his stories were published as part of the Fastback Mystery series single short stories released in book form. Despite praise from prominent writers from within the genre, including Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Laymon was little known in his homeland he enjoyed greater success in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom until his affiliation with Leisure Books in 1999. Laymon believed that this was a result of a badly-edited first release of The Woods Are Dark, which had had over fifty pages removed. The poor editing and unattractive cover art stalled his career after the success of The Cellar. Laymon's original version of The Woods Are Dark[2] was finally published in July 2008 by Leisure Books and Cemetery Dance Publications after being reconstructed from the original manuscript by his daughter, Kelly. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, as was his non-fiction work A Writer's Tale. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. The tribute anthology, In Laymon's Terms,[3] was released by Cemetery Dance Publications during the summer of 2011. It featured short stories and non-fiction tribute essays by authors such as Bentley Little, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Edward Lee, and scores of others. Laymon died of a massive heart attack at the age of 54. (Wikipedia) .
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