In Laymon's Terms

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kelly Laymon

13 • Out with a Bang: Bare Feet & Bloody Gunshot Wounds

Richard Chizmar

16 • The Most Important Things

Steve Gerlach

18 • Dick Laymon dot com

PART I: STORIES AND REMEMBRANCES

Don D’Auria

26 • A Kind Word at the Right Time

Norman Partridge

29 • Second Chance

38 • Gotcha! Remembering Dick Laymon

Bentley Little

40 • Meeting Joanne

Jack Ketchum

50 • A Laymon Remembrance

51 • Hotline

Regina Mitchell

56 • A Laymon Remembrance

57 • The Pack

Alan Beatts

64 • Not Guilty by Reason of Sanity

Brian Keene

68 • The Dick Would be Pleased

69 • Castaways

Brian Freeman

85 • Meeting Richard Laymon

87 • Loving Roger

Ryan Harding

92 • A Tribute to Richard Laymon

93 • Development

John Urbancik

102 • A Brief Memory

103 • Fauxville North

Jacqueline Mitchell

113 • Remembering Richard Laymon

115 • Daddy Wound

Gary Brandner

119 • A Laymon Remembrance

120 • Campfire Story

Simon Clark

131 •A Writer’s Tale in Praise of Truth:

An Appreciation of Richard Laymon

133 • Ham’s Not Here

Gina Osnovich

147 • I Don’t Know Dick

149 • Edge of Town

Michael T. Huyck, Jr.

160 • A Laymon Remembrance

161 • Deep Dawn’s Jongleur

Sheri White

174 • Secret Admirers & Pseudonyms

Tom Piccirilli

176 • New York Comes to the Desert

Adam Pepper

189 • A Laymon Remembrance

191 • The Lonely Room

PART II: FAN FAVORITES AND RARITIES

Richard Laymon

200 • Dick’s College Poems (1960s)

206 • Desert Pickup (1970)

212 • Smokers’ Blend (1971)

232 • Immediate Opening (1976)

236 • Cut! (1985)

Ed Gorman

256 • Mystery Scene Interview with Author Richard Laymon (1995)

Richard Laymon

263 • Herman (1996)

276 • Boo (2000)

291 • Pick-Up on Highway One (2001)

297 • On The Set of Vampire Night (2001)

Ann Laymon

307 • Photo Album Collected from the Family’s Personal Albums

PART III: MORE STORIES AND REMEMBRANCES

Matt Schwartz

325 • Aaron Spelling Would be Proud

Steve Gerlach

328 • A Laymon Remembrance

329 • The Dead of Night

James Futch

345 • A Laymon Remembrance

346 • Cover

Michael Oliveri

349 • A Laymon Remembrance

350 • Behavior Therapy

Rain Graves

358 • Richard Laymon, in Memoriam

359 • Wild Card

John Pelan

370 • A Laymon Remembrance

373 • Another Saturday Night

Robert Freese

378 • Inspiration, Determination, & Mutilation

Donn Gash

383 • Pushing Buttons

William D. Carl

386 • A Laymon Remembrance

387 • Dig

Holly Newstein

394 • A Laymon Remembrance

Holly Newstein & Ralph Bieber II

395 • Prayers

Mark Justice

404 • A Laymon Remembrance

406 • The Red Kingdom

Bryan Smith

420 • A Laymon Remembrance

421 • Pizza Face

Kimberley Hill

435 • Remembering Richard Laymon

Brett McBean

437 • The Real Genius of a Sick Mind:

A Richard Laymon Remembrance

438 • The Genius of a Sick Mind

Sebastien Pharand

448 • My Thoughts on Richard Laymon

449 • Little Monsters

Jonathan Torres

466 • A Laymon Remembrance

467 • Bestiality

Ron R. Clinton

472 • A Laymon Remembrance

473 • The Diner

Troy Taylor

486 • Remembering Dick Laymon

487 • The Keepsake

Brent Zirnheld

497 • A Laymon Remembrance

498 • Coastal Pickup

Nicole Cushing

503 • Gorgeous! Beguiling! Lethal!

504 • Scabby Nipples and Sharp Teeth

Weston Ochse

511 • A Laymon Remembrance

512 • Crashing Down

Mark McLaughlin

520 • A Laymon Remembrance

Michael McCarty & Mark McLaughlin

521 • From the Bowels of the Earth

Robert Morrish

529 • Still Life, With Mother

Roger Range

540 • Laymon’s Legacy

541 • Scavengers

Patricia Lee Macomber

556 • A Laymon Remembrance

557 • Past Tense

Philip Robinson

568 • My Laymon Remembrance

570 • Occupied

Jim Hillman

581 • A Laymon Remembrance

582 • For the Light

Geoff Cooper

588 • Trying To Keep This Under Three-Quarters-of-a-Million Words

593 • Strangers: Good Friends and a Bottle of Wine

Edward Lee

605 • A Laymon Remembrance

606 • Chef

Matt Johnson

613 • A Dream