Richard Laymon (1947-2001) was an American novelist of horror and suspense novels, considered part of the splatterpunk sub-genre. His writing is full of violence and sex, and not for the faint of heart. Although he was American, his books sold best in the United Kingdom. Laymon also wrote historical fiction series with other authors using the collective pseudonym Lee Davis Willoughby.

Richard Laymon’s first novel was The Cellar, published in 1980. His final novel was published in 2005, titled both The Glory Bus and Into the Fire. Below is a list of Richard Laymon’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Beast House Chronicles Books

The Cellar(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beast House(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Midnight Tour(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Friday Night in Beast House(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Your Secret Admirer (As: Carl Laymon)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Woods Are Dark(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Out Are the Lights(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nightmare Lake (As: Carl Laymon)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night Show(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dawson's City(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beware(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Allhallow's Eve(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night Creature(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark Mountain / Tread Softly (As: Richard Kelly)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thin Air(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flesh(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Resurrection Dreams(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Midnight's Lair (As: Richard Kelly)(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Funland(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stake(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Rainy Night(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Darkness, Tell Us(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Island(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood Games(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alarums(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Savage(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Endless Night(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Dark(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quake(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Body Rides(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bite(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
After Midnight(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wilds(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cuts(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Among the Missing(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Come Out Tonight(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Traveling Vampire Show(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Once Upon a Halloween(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Sanctuary(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night in the Lonesome October(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Amara / To Wake The Dead(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lake(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glory Bus / Into the Fire(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

A Good, Secret Place(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fiends(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Writer's Tale(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dreadful Tales(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Madman Stan and Other Stories(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Making Of The Cities Books

(as Lee Davis Willoughby)

Publication Order of Women Who Won The West Books

(as Lee Davis Willoughby)

Tempest of Tombstone(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dodge City Darling(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Duchess of Denver(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Lady of Laramie(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flame of Virginia City(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Angel of Hangtown(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Belle of Fort Smith(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Princess of Powder River(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Making Of America Books

The Wilderness Seekers (By: Lou Cameron)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mountain Breed (By: Aaron Fletcher)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Conestoga People (By: Jeanne Sommers)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Forty-Niners (By: John Toombs)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hearts Divided (By: Paula Moore,Fancy Dewitt)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Builders (By: Jeanne Sommers)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Land Rushers (By: Elizabeth Zachary)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wild and The Wayward (By: Georgia Granger)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Texans (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Alaskans (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Staters (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The River People (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Land Grabbers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ranchers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Homesteaders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Frontier Healers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Buffalo People (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Far Islanders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Border Breed (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boomers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wildcatters (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gunfighters (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cajuns (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Donner People (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Creoles (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Nightriders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sooners (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vigilantes (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Express Riders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Soldiers of Fortune (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wranglers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Baja People (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Yukon Breed (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Smugglers (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Voyageurs (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Barbary Coasters (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Whalers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Canadians (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Prophet's People (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lawmen (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Copper Kings (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Caribbeans (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trail Blazers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gamblers (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Robber Barons (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Assassins (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bounty Hunters (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Texas Rangers (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Outlaws (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fugitives (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Frontier Detectives (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Raiders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rough Riders (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warriors of the Code (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sixgun Apostles (As:Lee Davis Willoughby)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scarlet Sisters (As: Lee Davis Willoughby)(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Northeast Georgia: A History (By: Gordon Sawyer)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Notes: Your Secret Admirer and Nightmare Lake were written as Carl Laymon. Tread Softly and Midnight’s Lair were also published under the pseudonym of Richard Kelly. Tread Softly was also published as Dark Mountain. Amara is alternately titled To Wake the Dead. The Glory Bus is also known as Into the Fire. Ten Tales is co-authored by Neal Barrett, Jr. and Wendy Hornsby. Triage also contains contributions by Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee. The Making of America, Women Who Won the West and Making of the Cities series were co-authored by William L. DeAndrea and Richard Deming using the collective pseudonym of Lee Davis Willoughby.

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