After hearing about it for years, I was finally able to get my meat hooks on a copy of Richard Laymon's The Woods Are Dark . It was suppose to be the book that explains why Laymon had success during his life over in England, but failed to achieve the same status in his home country. The book was heavily altered in America, which was said to make it unreadable. I'm now interested in the U.S. release because the restored version is such an atrocious piece of trash. The book details a group of individuals who attempt to survive after being kidnapped by the locals of a small town. They are dropped in the woods and offered as a sacrifice to the feral tribe that inhabit the surrounding area. Some are murdered, others fight for their lives or succumb to becoming human monsters themselves. Rape, dismemberment and other deplorable acts are committed throughout the novel. The reader is left sickened by the acts of the perpetrators as well as the victims. Firstly it's import...
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