Dreadful Tales 1st WORLD HARDCOVER PUBLISHER: Headline 2000 COVER PRICE: £17.99 ISBN 0-7472-7159-3

Dreadful Tales 1st WORLD PAPERBACK PUBLISHER: Headline 2000 COVER PRICE: £6.99 ISBN 0-7472-6463-5

Richard Laymon is the undisputed master of the macabre, and nowhere is his talent to terrify shown to better effect than in his short stories. DREADFUL TALES contains all of his short fiction not previously published in the UK and forms a delicious cornucopia of homicidal maniacs, vampires and lust-crazed teenagers - not to mention the drinkers in a low-life dive who attempt to salvage a diamond ring from the mouth of a severed head in a fish tank - with grisly results.

Here are the Dreadful Tales:
1. Invitation to Murder
2. The Grab
3. Saving Grace
4. Barney's Bigfoot Museum
5. Herman
6. The Champion
7. The Maiden
8. A Good Cigar is a Smoke
9. I'm Not a Criminal
10. Oscar's Audition
11. Into the Pit
12. Spooked
13 The Good Deed
14. The Direct Approach
15. Good Vibrations
16. Phil the Vampire
17. Paying Joe Back
18. The Fur Coat
19. Blarney
20. Dracusson's Driver
21. Roadside Pickup
22. Wishbone
23. First Date
24. Stickman
25. Mop Up