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  <name><![CDATA[Richard Laymon]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He grew up in California and has a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon, and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. He has worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian and as a report writer for a law firm. He now works full time as a writer.

Apart from his novels, he has published more than 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 and Night Visions 7. His novel Flesh was names Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle and also shortlisted for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, as was Funland.

Richard Laymon is the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels, including The Cellar, The Stake, Savage, Quake, Island and Body Rides.

Richard died on February 14, 2001.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Chicago</hometown>  <born_at>01/14/1947</born_at>  <died_at>02/14/2001</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Traveling Vampire Show]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Cellar]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Island]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Beast House]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Dark]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[One Rainy Night]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Body Rides]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Night in the Lonesome October]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bite]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Midnight Tour]]></title>
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