RICHARD LAYMON. THE KING.
Just about anybody who knows me, interacts regularly with me, follows or keeps up to date with what I’m doing, or even just has a casual interest in what I write, will be quite aware that I am a massive Richard Laymon fanatic.
After all, I’ve made mention probably forty or fifty times that he is my greatest inspiration and influence in writing, and there’s every chance I’ll say it at least forty or fifty times more. So, with that being said I’m going to talk a little here about the late, great Laymon, the influence he had on me and the impact discovering his work had, not just how I wrote, but how I viewed horror fiction in general. And potentially some random gibberish. We’ll see.
I discovered Richard Laymon’s books in the early 90s. A voracious reader of horror fiction, I was already well…
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