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A review by awesomelybadbooks
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon
3.0
I have absolutely no idea what I just read.
I am partly fascinated. Partly appalled.
I will give Richard Laymon one thing - he definitely had his own style and followed his own rules.
I have no idea what to say! Part of me wanted to like it, yes, but the other part of me thinks this novel is completely inappropriate in so many ways and on so many levels. I just don't know what to say about it.
The town of Barlow has been plagued by a group of savages (??) that live in the surrounding wooded area. They have lived their for hundreds of years. Killers. Cannibals. Inbreeding so often that some of this group have become terribly deformed. To preserve their own families, the people of Barlow have been sacrificing strangers to the people in the forest. The Krulls. One night a group of strangers, who have been snatched from their lives trying to make it through town, decide to fight back.
I swear I have heard Laymon mention the Krulls in another book I read sometime at the end of the last year. I might be mistaken. If I'm not, it's interesting that he would bring up the same concept in two different books!
So, this is not safe for work. Please, keep this one at home and definitely don't read this if you're easily offended by a multitude of violent, disgusting situations.
I just don't know with this author anymore....
I am partly fascinated. Partly appalled.
I will give Richard Laymon one thing - he definitely had his own style and followed his own rules.
I have no idea what to say! Part of me wanted to like it, yes, but the other part of me thinks this novel is completely inappropriate in so many ways and on so many levels. I just don't know what to say about it.
The town of Barlow has been plagued by a group of savages (??) that live in the surrounding wooded area. They have lived their for hundreds of years. Killers. Cannibals. Inbreeding so often that some of this group have become terribly deformed. To preserve their own families, the people of Barlow have been sacrificing strangers to the people in the forest. The Krulls. One night a group of strangers, who have been snatched from their lives trying to make it through town, decide to fight back.
I swear I have heard Laymon mention the Krulls in another book I read sometime at the end of the last year. I might be mistaken. If I'm not, it's interesting that he would bring up the same concept in two different books!
So, this is not safe for work. Please, keep this one at home and definitely don't read this if you're easily offended by a multitude of violent, disgusting situations.
I just don't know with this author anymore....