Midnight's Lair - Richard Laymon

Midnight's Lair - Richard Laymon

Fiction - Horror - ISBN: 0747238960, 0821746847, 0750505435, 0747205671, 0312088450 more

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Mordock's Cave is a natural wonder, and thousands of tourists take the boat trip on the lake deep beneath the earth's surface. After a power failure, a group of tourists become...
more...trapped, and, emerging from the depths come the creatures who dwell there - creatures that nature never intended.





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Flesh smackingly good
A review by Manx on Midnight's Lair - Richard Laymon
December 3rd, 2000


Author's product rating:   

Would you read it again? Yes 
Story Good 
Characters Good 
Readability Excellent 
How does it compare to other works by the same author? Very good 

Advantages: A wonderful example of Laymon at it's best .
Disadvantages: This could too shocking for some .  Don't let your grandmother near this .

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

Full review

There have rumours surrounding Richard Laymon for a number of years now - people think that Laymon is a pseudonym for an established author, perhaps, Stephen King himself. “Midnight’s Lair” is one of the books that fuel this debate. It was originally published under the name Richard Kelly and it is also one of the more extreme Laymon books. Take note, Laymon’s books tend to be twice (or even thrice) as gory and risky than your average horror book and so Midnight’s Lair really is a blood bath above the rest.

The story really is typically Laymon. It deals with the bestial side to humans and human nature. It is almost tempting to sound something of a H. P. Lovecraft comparison here. Lovecraft has written a number of short stories in which humans, trapped over a long period of time (or who have voluntarily retreated from the world) have ended up in a “de-evolved” state. Of course, H. P. Lovecraft was known to cut the pictures of scantily clad ladies out from the magazines that published his stories because he didn’t approve of them. That’s certainly not something I can see Laymon (who ever he may be) doing, in fact, Laymon makes really good use of scantily clad ladies in his own stories.

The plot, as with most Laymon books, is pretty simple. Tourists are out exploring a network of vast caverns - it is a guided tour, the sort of trip that is done a number of times daily. On this occasion though, the power fails and we follow the unfortunates around as they try to reach the surface. The catch, of course, is that those “de-evolved” humans I was talking about early also happen to live in the deeper, darker areas of the underground maze... and ... they are hungry!
 

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Brilliantly shocking!
Review of Midnight's Lair - Richard Laymon by philsammie

Advantages: Engrossing throughout
Disadvantages: Avoid if easily offended

Midnight's Lair is one of Laymon's more shocking books, but also one of his best. It was originally published under the pseudonym of Richard Kelly - a fact that has always puzzled me, since I would be proud to have written it myself. It's the story of a group of sightseers who are taking a tour of a flooded underground cave, when there's a power cut which traps them down there in the dark. From then onwards, all sorts of weird, sick and violent things ...
...and keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. However there are a number of scenes in the book which some may consider 'sick' or in bad taste, and the easily offended should perhaps steer clear. For the average horror fan though, there is a huge amount to enjoy in this book. ... Read review

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