The Woods are Dark 1 US Paperback Original PUBLISHER: Warner Books 1981 COVER PRICE: $2.75 ISBN: 0-446-90518-6 Does the girl on the back of TWAD look familiar. Rumor has it that the woman in the picture is Brooke Shields. If you have further proof of this rumor whether in the positive or negative please email me.  RUDY SAENZ.

The Woods are Dark Uncorrected Proof PUBLISHER: Warner Books 1981 COVER PRICE: n/a ISBN: 0-446-90518-6 Thank you to Bob Strauss for scanning the proof images for me.

The Woods are Dark 1st UK Paperback PUBLISHER: NEL 1983 COVER PRICE:£1.50 ISBN: 0-450-05357-1

The Woods are Dark 1st UK Paperback THUS PUBLISHER: Headline March 1991 COVER PRICE:£6.99 ISBN: 0-747-23550-3

The Woods are Dark LIMITED EDITION CHAPBOOK (US) PUBLISHER: Deadline Press ISSUED: 1988 ISBN:NA

Produced by Deadline Press and released with Lettered Edition of A WRITER'S TALE.

This chapbook contains the edited chapters from the original text. The text closest to the original is the NEL edition, followed by the Headline Edition and the Warner paperback was the most radically altered by editors, without the permission of Richard Laymon. For more read A WRITER'S TALE.



No one drives out of Barlow. No one stays after dark. Except the Delivery Men, who haul like slaves of Satan, and the girls who can never say no. It was business as usual in Barlow until Johnny Robbins broke the rules and returned to the scene of The Trees to save the girl he couldn't resist. The Devil had his number now and wouldn't let him escape. But he ran anyway, pursued by the hounds of Hell. He took the victims, and they ran for their lives from the terror that stalked the woods and ruled the roost in Barlow, California. A terror that said join us or die! ...