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Midnight's Lair
Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by American writer Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. It was first published in Great Britain and was not released in the United States until 1993, where it was distributed by St. Martin's Press.

Plot
This particular novel focuses on a group of people who decide to travel to a place they've never been before. The novel concerns a group of tourists who become trapped in a cavern after a fire destroys the exits. Darcy, one of the tour guides, and the group try to escape by breaking into a part of the cave that had been walled up years before. Among the tourists is Kyle Mordock, son of the hotel owner who has a perverse obsession with Darcy. Which, leads to many other things that are concerning enough already aside from the obsession.

When Darcy and the group breach the wall they release a family of cannibalistic savages that has been living in the cave for over half a century. The savages are the descendants of people imprisoned by Kyle's great-grandfather. They were kept alive by being fed the corpses of women Kyle and his father had kidnapped, raped and murdered.

Subplots include Darcy falling in love with one of the tourists, Kyle gaining the trust of a teenage girl with sinister intent and Darcy's mother venturing underground with a ragtag rescue team.

Extra Information
To add onto this, I've found an image on Google images and thought it’d be helpful to this stub since it only has the cover of the book on there. The image consists of a black background, with a red square in the center. It has a creature in the middle of the square, with horns and a malicious expression on its face, long hair and a beard, and what seems to be either tusks or sharp teeth. Moving forward, Anyways, the next book that goes well with this is Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Xavier Aldana Reyes. This source was published sorta recently. In 2014, that is. This not only dives into Richard Laymon’s work, but talks about how his and many other works should be taken with caution. Of course, many of us don’t take horror entirely seriously, since it’s just fiction work. It does affect us all differently though, and some of us may have a bigger impact than others, resulting in peculiar consequences. Either way, it’s good to take what we see in the entertainment industry with a grain of salt.

About Richard Laymon
According to the site, http://rlk.stevegerlach.com/rlbiog.htm, states that, "Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He grew up in California and has a BA in English Literature from Willamette University, Oregon, and an MA from Loyola University, Los Angeles. He has worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian and as a report writer for a law firm. He now works full time as a writer.

Apart from his novels, he has published more than sixty short stories in magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock and Cavalier and in anthologies, including Modern Masters of Horror, The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime and Night Visions 7. His novel Flesh was names Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle and also shortlisted for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, as was Funland.

Richard Laymon is the author of more than thirty acclaimed novels, including The Cellar, The Stake, Savage, Quake, Island and Body Rides.

Richard died on February 14, 2001."

Other things that were mentioned on the site says, "When Richard Laymon passed away on Valentines Day 2001 he was just beginning to gain the respect and fame he deserved as a horror writer in the United States. Laymon, after writing over thirty novels, was barely known in his home country. His fame in the United Kingdom, Australia and parts of Europe however was well established.

It was with the publication of Bite, Among the Missing and One Rainy Night by the newly jump started horror line at Leisure books that Laymon took off in the States. Among The Missing was the first paperback to go into a second printing here.

The honor of first hardcover to go to second printing was THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW, published by CD Publications. The book was originally released in a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. The Traveling Vampire Show also won the Stoker Award for best novel of 2000, which was accepted by his daughter, Kelly at the ceremony held during The World Horror Convention in Seattle, Washington earlier this summer.

Other books published by CD Publications in signed editions are Cuts, Come out Tonight, Once Upon A Halloween, The Wilds (1st in CD's novella series), THE Cellar, Beast House, and The Midnight Tour.

Richard Laymon edited one anthology; Bad News, nominated for a Stoker Award for 2000, which was released by CD Publications as well.

Richard's most recent CD release is Night in Lonesome October. He did not get to sign this edition, it was released shortly after his passing.