Richard Laymon/Literary History

Novels

• 1980 – The Cellar
• 1981 – The Woods Are Dark
• 1982 – Out Are the Lights
• 1984 – Night Show
• 1985 – Beware!
• 1986 – All Hallow's Eve
• 1986 – The Beast House
• 1987 – Flesh
• 1987 – Tread Softly also titled Dark Mountain
• 1988 – Resurrection Dreams
• 1989 – Funland
• 1990 – The Stake
• 1991 – Darkness, Tell Us
• 1991 – Island
• 1991 – One Rainy Night
• 1992 – Blood Games
• 1992 – Midnight's Lair
• 1993 – Alarums
• 1993 – Endless Night
• 1993 – Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper
• 1994 – In the Dark
• 1995 – Quake
• 1996 – Bite
• 1996 – Body Rides
• 1998 – Come Out Tonight
• 1998 – The Midnight Tour
• 1999 – Among the Missing
• 1999 – Cuts
• 2000 – Once Upon a Halloween
• 2000 – The Traveling Vampire Show
• 2001 – Friday Night in Beast House
• 2001 – Night in the Lonesome October
• 2001 – No Sanctuary
• 2003 – Amara also titled To Wake the Dead
• 2004 – The Lake
• 2005 – The Glory Bus also titled Into the Fire

Novellas

• 1989 – Mop Up
• 1997 – Fiends
• 1998 – The Wilds

Novelettes

• 1989 – Mess Hall
• 1991 – Saving Grace
• 1991 – Special
• 1992 – Dracuson's Driver
• 1993 – The Good Deed
• 1993 – A Good, Secret Place
• 1993 – The Mask
• 1995 – The Maiden
• 1997 – First Date
• 2002 – The Cabin in the Woods
• 2004 – Halloween Hunt
• 2008 – Triage

Collections

• 1992 – A Good and Secret Place
• 1993 – Out Are the Lights and Other Tales
• 1997 – Fiends
• 2000 – Dreadful Tales

Short Stories

• 1970 – Desert Pickup
• 1974 – Roadside Pickup
• 1975 – Oscar's Audition
• 1975 – Out of the Woods
• 1975 – Paying Joe Back
• 1976 – A Good Cigar Is a Smoke
• 1977 – The Direct Approach
• 1978 – The Champion
• 1980 – Stiff Intruders
• 1981 – Barney's Bigfoot Museum
• 1981 – Blarney
• 1981 – Spooked
• 1982 – The Grab
• 1985 – Eats
• 1989 – Bad News
• 1989 – The Bleeder
• 1989 – Drinker's Pond
• 1989 – The Hunt
• 1989 – Madman Stan
• 1989 – Wishbone
• 1991 – The Tub
• 1992 – Kitty Litter
• 1993 – I'm Not a Criminal
• 1993 – Joyce
• 1993 – Slit
• 1993 – Stickman
• 1994 – The Fur Coat
• 1995 – Phil the Vampire
• 1996 – Good Vibrations
• 1996 – Herman
• 1999 – Choppie
• 2000 – Boo
• 2000 – The Boy Who Loved "The Twilight Zone"
• 2000 – Double Date
• 2000 – The Hangman
• 2000 – Into the Pit
• 2000 – Prudence
• 2001 – Hammerhead
• 2001 – Pick-Up on Highway One
• 2002 – Ten Bucks Says You Won't
• 2004 – The Hearse
• 2005 – The Diving Girl
• 2006 – The Living Dead