This book was AWEsome!! Just non stop absurdity after another which, come on! That's why we love him! From over the top Jenny who knew way too much about how to kill people to Neala, Sherri, and Cordelia, three women whom I really enjoyed. Poor Cordelia! Just don't know how she managed to suffer through initiation into the Krulls. Wow! I might rather die. And what the heck with the thing in the pit!? That was never explained, therefore this desperately needed a sequel! Another great read from la...

Beware of the Krulls!!! LOOK FOR THIS EDITION! First of all, if you want to read this story......look for THIS edition!!!Really!!!Since when it was published back, back, back then, in the beginning of the 80s. the publishing house messed it, asking for cutting key chapters and characters, causing that the book wasn't well received and negatively affecting the writer's career of Richard Laymon in the US (there was a little bit better edited version for the UK market and that's why Laymon go

The plot concerns two groups of people, a family and a pair of college students who are kidnapped after stopping in a small California town and taken into the forest to be sacrificed to a group of mysterious creatures called Krulls. The Krulls turn out to be a tribe of inbred cannibals living in a state of pure savagery reminiscent to the stone ages, (think The Hills Have Eyes) and they're a nasty bunch that can give the average monster a run for their money. They prowl the woods of a nearby tow...

Two backpackers (female of course) and a family (daughter with friend) find the horror of their lives in a rural american area. The backpackers are being kidnapped and the family probably will be slaughtered. There is a pact between the inhabitants of Barlow and the Krulls (kind of inbred cannibalistic murderers called devil's children or stone age tribe) to hand any travelling strangers to them. One of the villagers though tries to help Neala, since he likes her. Can they escape the terror of t...

When an unkempt legless man drags himself out in front of your convertible on an isolated mountain road and throws a severed hand at you, you should: A) Stop and see if he needs a hand (sorry, couldn’t help myself) B) Show him your boobs, Laymon nipples and allC) Go get some chicken fried steak and eggs at the next available diner D) Take a few minutes out for some steamy lesbian sex E) All of the above.The crazy thing is that in this one, all of these are very real possibilities. There are no w...

TWAD is a very early novel by Laymon; in the preface, his daughter recounts how she pieced the novel back together as it was originally written after Warner published a heavily edited/mutilated version in 1981. TWAD is a decent Laymon novel, albeit one full of all his typical tropes. Two young women are heading out for a backpacking trip and decide to stop at a diner in a small town in Northern California; after eating, they attempt to leave only to find the door locked. Turns out they came to t...

The woods are lovely, dark and deepuntil...you're being chased through the forest by a horde of inbred cannibals. Then it's enough to make even a staunch tree-hugger like myself say, "Go, logging industry!"I had the same problem with this book that I did with The Ruins, in that the characters were so insipid I couldn't wait for them ALL to die. And any author that makes me root for the cannibals is worthy of scorn, not praise. Thrown in dozens of WTF moments - (view spoiler)[They're in the prove...

Apparently this book was first copywrited in 1981 and the editors for Warner Books butchered the book. Taking out full paragraphs, whole chapters were removed, bad grammatical errors, and so on. Laymon often referred to this book as the one that ruined his career. Then in 2008 after painstaking work, his daughter, Kelly Laymon pieced the book back together and had it published as the restored and uncut version, fortunately this is the version I have. Sad that Laymon did not get to see what his d...

4.5 stars rounded up!Wow! This was my first Richard Laymon novel and I was not disappointed. I know Laymon has a bit of a bad reputation (as in, he’s known for writing trashy horror), so I was a bit hesitant when starting this short tale of a few people lost in the woods and on the run from an incestuous family of cannibals that . . . practice witchcraft? I think?Oh, and the Devil shows up too. In literal monster form. Needless to say, this thing is intense. I could not — and did not — want to p...

Richard Laymon penned the line "his cock felt like a fiery log" and for that alone he deserves two stars.

It was okay. I guess I was expecting to be blown away and I wasn’t really. It was more edgy and weird than anything, but it was plenty graphic and perverse if that’s what youre in the mood for.

Balls-to-the-wall horror from the first chapter!There are two things that are important if you want to read this book:The first, if you don't know Laymon, is that this author liked the graphic description of sex. He will not hold back when it comes to doing the dirty. In fact, there was a song that ran through my head quite a bit as I read this story. In the SOUTH PARK episode where they parodied GAME OF THRONES, they had a male choir who did the words for the theme song. Mostly, it went:"Wiener...

I picked this up for 20p in a charity shop as, over the years, I've heard of Richard Laymon being mentioned in the same league as horror page-turner authors as Dean Koontz and Stephen King. Being up in the wilds of Scotland in the midst of truly terrible weather the idea of reading a rural horror novel was quite appealing so, as I had managed to leave some of my selected reading at home, I decided to give it a whirl.As a teenage reader of James Herbert, Shaun Hutson and their ilk in the 1980s I

This is the first book I've read by the author, and it was pretty good, if a little insane. Okay, more than a little insane. There are so many crazy people in this book - it was difficult to determine who was the craziest, though I think it was Lander Dills.A pair of back-packers; Neala and Sherri and a family of three: Lander, Ruth, Cordelia, and Cordelias boyfriend Ben - become fair game when they decide to make a stop in the small town of Barlow. Both groups get kidnapped by some of the local...

This was the first Laymon book I ever read when I found the paperback for sale in a Target store book section, Complete with the sleazy foil cover. I was so pleased when Cemetery Dance published this "Uncut Version".

I have to admit Laymon is my favorite horror author. He was such a master at his craft and what he does he does with relish. This novel is no exception. Atmospherics and edginess always play a huge role in Laymon's books and he has some unique tricks in his bag that never seem to fail for me.Granted, after reading a few of his novels an astute reader recognizes plot devices that are being reused, albeit some shifting and name changing, but if you liked them the first time you will enjoy them the...

the little girl, ummm, teenage girl, ehhh, prepubescent gal just pulled up her anchor and floored the gas pedal of her jetboat and, oh! she used the anchor as a bola to slay...she helped her mother and some travellers-to-be-victims and one towner who got stung by his conscience defeating those albinic mutant freaks and sick fuck townies and hauling their all asses out of that shithole. totally, that sounds nuts, right? but it was from laymon, his sounding nuts became this absolutely high-speed-p...

This is not a book to be read by people susceptible to gore, horror, necrophilia, cannibalism, pedophilia and other... things...I read the restored and uncut version of the book. Most Landers chapters are missing from the previous edition and I can see why. They are disturbing as hell. Beware. You have been warned.This book is relatively small, with only 215 pages and right from the first chapter you are inside the rollercoast that finish in the last page.You've got two separated sets of charact...

Laymon rewrites Ketchum's Off Season as a comedy porno and it's a rocking good time. Read the whole book in about 3 hours. Very much like watching a crazy batshit insane horror movie. Really not so much horror as pure insanity. This book might be the original "Wrong Turn" as it's very much in a similar vein and tone, and even though an earlier work it's still full of Laymon's signature WTF delights. Loved it, and highly recommend that if you haven't read it yet, get it - check your brain at the