The Woods are Dark AND Out are the Lights

The Woods are Dark In the woods are six dead trees. The Killing Trees. That s where they take them. Innocent travellers on the road in California. Seized and bound, stripped of their valuables and shackled to the Trees. To wait. In the woods. In the dark...

Out Are The Lights The Vampire movie came first, then the story of the Axeman. This was the horror movie series to end them all. Cinema buffs admired the grainy, amateur camera work it suggested the action was the real thing. But it couldn't be could it?

About the Author

Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947 and grew up in California. Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which he won in 2001 with The Travelling Vampire Show. He died in February 2001.