Author: thriller

I discovered Richard Laymon in the late 80’s. A great writer, great stories, sometimes a little rappey. He became mildly successful in the US late in his career. He died young, at the age of 54 in 2001. Most of his success came from the UK.

The five best ever Laymon books, in my opinion are:

I have read most of his books but not all.

ORDER OF BEAST HOUSE CHRONICLES SERIES

#	Title	Published
1	The Cellar	1980
2	The Beast House	1984
3	The Midnight Tour	1998
4	Friday Night in Beast House	2001

ORDER OF RICHARD LAYMON STANDALONE NOVELS

#	Title	Published
1	Your Secret Admirer (As: Carl Laymon)	1980
2	The Woods Are Dark	1981
3	Out Are the Lights	1982
4	Nightmare Lake (As: Carl Laymon)	1983
5	Night Show	1984
6	Dawson’s City	1984
7	Beware	1985
8	Allhallow’s Eve	1985
9	Night Creature	1986
10	Dark Mountain / Tread Softly (As: Richard Kelly)	1987
11	Thin Air	1987
12	Flesh	1987
13	Resurrection Dreams	1988
14	Midnight’s Lair (As: Richard Kelly)	1988
15	Funland	1989
16	The Stake	1990
17	One Rainy Night	1990
18	Darkness, Tell Us	1991
19	Island	1991
20	Blood Games	1992
21	Alarums	1992
22	Savage	1993
23	Endless Night	1993
24	In the Dark	1994
25	Quake	1995
26	Body Rides	1996
27	Bite	1996
28	After Midnight	1998
29	The Wilds (Short Story)	1998
30	Cuts	1999
31	Among the Missing	1999
32	Come Out Tonight	1999
33	The Traveling Vampire Show	2000
34	Once Upon a Halloween	2000
35	No Sanctuary	2001
36	Night in the Lonesome October	2001
37	Amara / To Wake The Dead	2003
38	The Lake	2004
39	The Glory Bus / Into the Fire	2005

ORDER OF RICHARD LAYMON SHORT STORIES/NOVELLAS

#	Title	Published
1	Shootout at Joe’s (Short Story)	1984
2	Cardiac Arrest (Short Story)	1984
3	Intruder (Short Story)	1984
4	Caller (Short Story)	1985
5	Night Ride	1985
6	Night Games (Short Story)	1985
7	Guts	1985
8	The Cobra	1985
9	Last Hand	1985
10	The Hearse (Short Story)	1985
11	Lonely One (Short Story)	1985
12	Live Bait (Short Story)	1985
13	Marathon	1985
14	The Return (Short Story)	1986
15	Beginner’s Luck	1986
16	Halloween Hunt	1986
17	The Halloween Mouse (Short Story)	2001

ORDER OF RICHARD LAYMON SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

#	Title	Published
1	A Good, Secret Place	1992
2	Fiends	1997
3	A Writer’s Tale	1998
4	Dreadful Tales	2000
5	Madman Stan and Other Stories	2004
6	Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines (Short Story)	2014

ORDER OF WORLD’S FINEST MYSTERY AND CRIME STORIES SERIES

ORDER OF HOT BLOOD SERIES

#	Title	Published
1	Hot Blood	1989
2	Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror	1991
3	Hottest Blood	1993
4	Deadly After Dark	1994
5	Seeds of Fear	1995
6	Stranger by Night	1995
7	Fear the Fever	1996
8	Kiss and Kill	1997
9	Crimes of Passion	1997
10	Hot Blood X	1998
11	Fatal Attractions	2003
12	Strange Bedfellows	2004
13	Dark Passions	2007

ORDER OF DARK DELICACIES SERIES

#	Title	Published
1	Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers	2005
2	Dark Delicacies II: Fear	2007
3	Dark Delicacies III: Haunted	2009

RICHARD LAYMON ANTHOLOGIES

#	Title	Published
1	Triage	1990
2	Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror	1991
3	Ten Tales	1994
4	Grave Tales	2000
5	October Dreams	2000
6	The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2	2000
7	The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft	2003
8	In Laymon’s Terms	2008

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She’s awesome.

but a lot of truth as well

This guy is hilarious. I HAD to share it with you folks.

Dry Bar comedy is actually better than some popular stand ups.

This is bummer news for me. Looks like I need to take an extra step when I buy old Mobi files and want to send them to my Kindle. I have to make them into EPUB files. Easy enough.

In the email they claim older MOBI documents can’t support the newest Kindle features. Well, I have an old Kindle. I don’t want a new one, this one works well.

Here’s the email I got, in case you missed it.

Dear Kindle Customer, Thank you for using the Send to Kindle service to send personal documents to your Kindle library. We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your library. Any MOBI files already in your Kindle library will not be affected by this change. MOBI is an older file format and won’t support the newest Kindle features for documents. Any existing MOBI files you want to read with our most up-to-date features for documents will need to be re-sent in a compatible file format. Also, compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can send to your library using your Send to Kindle email address. We’ll also be adding EPUB support to the free Kindle app for iOS and Android devices and the Send to Kindle desktop app for PC and Mac. If you have any questions, please visit our help page or contact our Customer Service team. Regards, The Kindle Team

Went to Amano Hashidate, the bridge in the sky.

What are the other beauty spots?

We took our dogs with us, which limited the places we could go. Some dog friendly zones were only for small, tiny dogs. Not a full Shiba Ken and a Golden Retriever.

These images are from my Instagram ( @threeand10 ) all with side notes on what is happening.

It took us 5 hours to get there because of this:

We exited the highway ASAP and took the back roads. This gave us lots of cool, mostly unknown, things to see. Unfortunately, the car we were following didn’t stop. Not even for souvenirs–which is the DONE THING in Japan. You go somewhere, and the day after your return you give a gift from the place you visited.

Not this time.

And the wife told a few neighbors about the trip. One even visited this morning to give us a gift of their trip the other day. Whoops.

There are a few videos on Instagram. Check it out if you want. I usually follow back, but not always.

Based on the post I made yesterday, I was wondering if I could find anything on Ukraine trying to take back Crimea. They (Ukraine officials) knew this could start a war with Russia. I found an article from World Socialist Site dated March 19, 2021.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/ukra-m20.html

Ukraine approves strategy to “recover” Crimea, threatening all-out war with Russia

Jason Melanovski 19 March 2021

Announcing the move on Twitter, Kuleba wrote, “The signal is clear: we don’t just call on the world to help us return Crimea, Ukraine makes its own dedicated and systemic efforts under President [Volodymyr] Zelensky’s leadership.”

Read the rest at the link above.

So, I believed–like everyone else–that Russia attacked the Ukraine without reason. Putin wanted more land. This is possible. So, that’s what we know.

Russia has a different take. This was confirmed by Swiss NATO officer, or something like that. Watch the video. It should start at 4.00 but in case it doesn’t, watch the entire thing anyway.

You might want to remove that Ukraine flag from your bio. From further reports, the head of NATO (USA) is using Ukraine as a proxy and have sent missiles into strategic Russian sites.

From the video “Russian officials say that they consider that they are currently “at war” with NATO and the U.S. and that a nuclear war is a real possibility. This is not hyperbole. The U.S. continues to escalate war and Russia is noticing.”

https://redacted.inc

Is Biden and the rest of NATO itching for world war 3? Sure, sounds like it. Fuckers. One nuclear bomb can destroy the world or radiate most of it. The radiation will travel on the wind and sweep across the world, from the US to UK to Europe to Asia to Russia to China to Japan (I’m fucked), and it will pollute the water and the food, and the soil we use to grown food.

Welcome to the Thunder Dome.