A review by woowottreads
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon

2.0

Another book relying too heavily on sex, gore, mutilation, and genitalia, and not justifiably so. People go on vacation. People get kidnapped by evil villagers to sacrifice to massive inbred family who will eat them or rape them (the woman) or both. La la la, people die, and there is gore. The most interesting subplot is the burgeoning insanity of one of the characters, and how he becomes at least as mortifying as the villains; but again, he is the cause also of too much ill-used, ill-timed gore, sex, and genitalia. There is a random supernatural occurrence that makes very little sense, since most of the characters seem fully human. I've read too many books like this one of late, and I would prefer not to read another one.