A Good Secret Place 1st LIMITED EDITION (US) PUBLISHER: Deadline Press 1993 DJ PRICE (Limited)  $35.00 ISBN 0-9631367-47

A Good Secret Place 1st LETTERED EDITION (US) PUBLISHER: Deadline Press 1993 DJ PRICE (Lettered) $125.00 ISBN 0-9631367-47

A Good, Secret Place is the first collection of Richard Laymon's short fiction, containing twenty of the author's finest stories. Included are more than 35,000 words - fully half the book - of new, never-before-published material. In this wide-ranging collection, Laymon takes on everything from serial killers ("Stiff Intruders") to supernatural creatures ("Stickman"); from erotic mystery ("The Mask") to black comedy ("Joyce"). Come along for the ride and enjoy the skills of a master at work...

The collection's stories:
Desert Pickup
Roadside Pickup
Oscar's Audition
Paying Joe Back
Out of the Woods
A Good Cigar is a Smoke
The Direct Approach
The Champion
Stiff Intruders
Barney's Bigfoot Museum
Blarney
Spooked
The Grab
Eats
The Bleeder
The Good Deed
Joyce
Stickman
The Mask
A Good Secret Place

Released only as:

- A deluxe first edition of 575 signed and numbered copies signed by Richard Laymon, Larry Mori (illustrator) and Ed Gorman (Introduction).

- A deluxe first edition of 26 lettered copies. Signed by Richard Laymon, Larry Mori (illustrator) & Ed Gorman (wrote the introduction). This limited edition is the only edition available of this title. The lettered copies are leatherbound and made to look like a diary complete with working lock and a couple of keys. Extremely collectable for the Laymon fan.
I have seen one go for $500.00.

These limiteds are the only available editions of this title to be had.