Who will Laymon read for the first time be inclined to classify him rashly in the dull-primitive macho corner in which so cloudy Funzeln as Koontz or Cussler romp. But whoever reads on through his oeuvre, is pleasantly surprised, discovers behind the foreseeable voltes and extra thick applied stereotypes the wink of an Erzschalks. "To Wake the Dead" embodies in many ways peak and essence of his work. Has always been a solid writing craftsmen, he rises in his later work with relish and masterfully on the conventions of the genre as well as the expectations of the audience - as it has already indicated in the third part of the Beast House trilogy. Fully aware that in the horror field already maxed everything broken all taboos and all shock effects are worn out, he makes himself unimpressed because still one last variation, as if Coda to put it. And what the educated middle class and do-gooders might really makes the hair stand on end, it clips while the high literature! I'm sure Laymon holds enough potential to still occupy generations of academics Weidlich. It may take several years until its size fully recorded, but you will come to him not around. So if a complete log of the increasing brutalization of our oversexed and over armed society is looking together with insights and commentary of a shrewd observer who may be able to find at Richard Laymon. Enjoy Yourself.
