Captured by Cannibals: In The Woods are Dark and Out Are the Lights.Cannibal Clan: The Woods are Dark, Midnight's Lair and The Glory Bus.Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore: Blood Games is very much this trope.Breeding Cult: The savages from The Woods are Dark have recently stopped killing women and instead taken them as brood wives.Body and Host: Flesh is all about a parasitic worm that hides in humans and makes them killer cannibals.Black-and-Gray Morality: The protagonists will be forced to do some questionable things to survive.The female protagonists always manage to get their makeup smudged and hair ruined, but they're still considered fairly attractive by their suitors and stalkers. Backstory Horror: Beware!, Endless Night, All Hallow's Eve, Midnight's Lair and No Sanctuary.Ax-Crazy: Most of the villains, though few actually use axes.If the character is anything to go by, Laymon also has a case of Author Phobia when it comes to vampires and the undead, possibly explaining why he doesn't write a lot of vampire fiction. Author Avatar: The Stake has a horror writer as a character.Most of his female protagonists have the exact same physical description: Caucasian with short (or mid-length) blonde hair.Additionally, plenty of his characters who happen to be college students all major in liberal arts, such as classic literature.Author Appeal: Richard Laymon was a fan of Edgar Allen Poe and frequently references him.Autocannibalism: In the Dark has a particularly grisly version of this.Attempted Rape: The best-case scenario for many female protagonists.Ancient Tomb: Amara and its spinoff Into the Pit.All Women Are Lustful: Since a lot of his stories have female protagonists, the readers tend to hear all about their feelings of arousal, which have a habit of striking at the most random times.All Girls Want Bad Boys: Largely averted for most of Laymon's stories, but played straight in The Lake and The Stake.All Men Are Perverts: Just about every male character is either a rapist or obsessed with sex.

All Abusers Are Male: Played straight, except for a subplot in Amara and even then the woman is portrayed sympathetically.Abhorrent Admirer: They come in both genders.Abandoned Area: The Lake, In the Dark, The Stake and a few others.Tropes associated with Richard Laymon's stories: And dozens more, including plenty of short stories.The Traveling Vampire Show (posthumously won the Bram Stoker Award in 2001).Funland (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award ).Flesh (was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle).Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper.The Beast House series ( The Cellar, The Beast House, The Midnight Tour, and Friday Night in Beast House).Richard Carl Laymon (Janu– February 14, 2001) was an American author of Splatter Horror and suspense.

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