Richard laymon was a gifted writer, Guy n smith clearly wasn't.
Laymon had apparently been an english teacher, it shows in his books they are very well-written. I have them all in paperback form (aside from a 1st edition of flesh)
I find myself wondering how much of guy n smith was used as the basis for garth merenghi. If you have no idea what i'm talking about here buy garth merenghi's dark place and enjoy, it even has a night of the crabs reference in it.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace [DVD] [2004]: Amazon.co.uk: Matt Holness, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Martin Hawkins, Stephen Abrahams: Film & TV gm.jpg
Still waiting for a war of the wasps movie!