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Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a mystery magazine editor and a report writer for a law firm before working full-time as a writer. In May 2001 THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, a prize for which he had previously been short-listed five times. Richard Laymon wrote many acclaimed works of horror and suspense. He died in February 2001.