Novels

• The Cellar (1980) (First book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Your Secret Admirer (1980) (writing as Carl Laymon - young adult novel)
• The Woods Are Dark (1981)
• Out Are the Lights (1982)
• Nightmare Lake (1983) (writing as Carl Laymon - young adult novel)
• The Lawmen (1983) (writing as Lee Davis Willoughby)
• Night Show (1984)
• A Stranger's Arms (1984) (writing as Carla Laymon)
• Beware (1985)
• Allhallow's Eve (1985)
• The Beast House (1986) (Second book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Tread Softly (1987) – a.k.a. Dark Mountain (writing as Richard Kelly)
• Flesh (1987)
• Midnight's Lair (1988) (writing as Richard Kelly)
• Resurrection Dreams (1988)
• Funland (1989)
• The Stake (1990)
• One Rainy Night (1991)
• Darkness, Tell Us (1991)
• Alarums (1992) a.k.a. Alarms
• Blood Games (1992)
• Dark Mountain (1993)
• Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper (1993)
• Endless Night (1993)
• In the Dark (1994)
• Quake (1995)
• Island (1995)
• Body Rides (1996)
• Bite (1996)
• After Midnight (1997)
• The Wilds (1998)
• The Midnight Tour (1998) (Third book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Cuts (1999)
• Among the Missing (1999)
• Come Out Tonight (1999)
• Once Upon A Halloween (2000)
• The Traveling Vampire Show (2000)
• Friday Night in Beast House (2001) (Fourth book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Night in the Lonesome October (2001)
• The Halloween Mouse (with Alan M. Clark) (2001) – children's book
• Triage (2001)
• No Sanctuary (2001)
• Amara (2003) a.k.a. To Wake the Dead
• The Lake (2004)
• The Glory Bus (2005) a.k.a. Into the Fire
• The Woods are Dark Restored and Uncut (2008)[4]

Fastbacks (young adult short stories)

• The Intruder (1984)
• Shootout At Joe's (1984) a.k.a Meeting at Joe's
• Dawson's City (1984)
• The Caller (1985)
• Cardiac Arrest (1985)
• The Cobra (1985)
• Guts (1985) a.k.a. The Hearse
• The Last Hand (1985)
• Live Bait (1985)
• The Lonely One (1985)
• The Trap (1985)
• Marathon (1985)
• Night Games (1985)
• Night Ride (1985)
• Beginner's Luck (1986)
• Halloween Hunt (1986)
• The Night Creature (1986)
• The Beast (1986)
• The Return (1987)
• Thin Air (1987)

Short stories

• "Bad News"
• "Barney's Bigfoot Museum"
• "Bedtime Stories"
• "Blarney"
• "The Bleeder"
• "Boo" (first printed in October Dreams and reprinted in In Laymon's Terms)
• "The Boy Who Loved the Twilight Zone" (included in Be Afraid: Tales of Horror selected by Edo Van Belkom 2000 Tundra Books)
• "Cabin in the Woods" (included in The Children of Cthulhu Edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams 2002 Del Ray Books / Ballantine)
• "The Champion"
• "Choppie" (included in Subterranean Gallery Edited by Richard Chizmar and William Schafer 1999 Subterranean Press)
• "Cut!" (Originally appeared in Besteller Magazine Issue #23, Pitman Learning, 1985 and reprinted in In Laymon's Terms)
• "Desert Pickup"
• "Dinker's Pond"
• "The Direct Approach"
• "The Diving Girl"'' (included in Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre Edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb)
• "Double Date"
• "Dracusson's Driver"
• "Eats"
• "Fiends"
• "Finders Keepers" (Originally appeared in Besteller Magazine Issue #26, Pitman Learning, 1985)
• "First Date"
• "The Fur Coat"
• "A Good Cigar is a Smoke"
• "The Good Deed"
• "A Good, Secret Place"
• "Good Vibrations"
• "The Grab"
• "Hammerhead" (included in The Horror Writers Association Presents - The Museum of Horror Edited by Dennis Etchison 2003 Leisure Books)
• "The Hangman" (included in Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns Edited by Jason Bovberg and Kirk Whitham 2000 Dark Highway Press)
• "Herman"
• "The Hunt" (also made in to an extended screenplay titled The Hunted and included in Screamplays - Published by Del Ray 1997)
• "I'm Not a Criminal"
• "Immediate Opening" (reprinted in In Laymon's Terms)
• "In The Attic" (released as a chapbook - published by Camelot Books)
• "Into the Pit"
• "Invitation to Murder"
• "The Job" (included in The Unexplained - Stories of the Paranormal Editor Ric Alexander Introduced by Peter James 1998 Millenium)
• "Joyce"
• "The Keeper" (released as a chapbook - published by Gauntlet Publications)
• "Keeper of the Books" (Originally appeared in California School Libraries - (volume 48 issue 3) - Spring 1977)
• "Kitty Litter"
• "The Living Dead" (included in Mondo Zombie Edited by John Skipp 2006 Cemetery Dance Publications)
• "Madman Stan"
• "The Maiden"
• "The Mask"
• "The Mirror" (included in Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy Edited by James R. Beach and Jason V. Brock, 2018)
• "Mess Hall"
• "Mop Up"
• "Oscar's Audition"
• "Out of the Woods"
• "Paying Joe Back"
• "Phil the Vampire"
• "Pickup on Highway One"
• "Prudence" (included in Imagination Fully Dilated 2 Edited by Elizabeth Engstrom, Artwork by Alan M. Clarke, 2000)
• "Roadside Pickup"
• "Saving Grace"
• "Slit"
• "Special"
• "Spooked"
• "Stickman"
• "Stiff Intruders"
• "Tell Me A Tale" (released as a chapbook - published by Cemetery Dance)
• "Ten Bucks Says You Won't" (included in The Darker Side - Generations of Horror Edited by John Pelan 2002 ROC Horror)
• "The Tub"
• "What Jimmy Saw" (first printed in Los Angeles Times Halloween 1998 - 25th October 1998, also found at https://rlk.stevegerlach.com/rlnews98.htm)
• "Wishbone"
• "The Worshipper"

Collections

• Out Are the Lights: And Other Tales (1991) (includes: Out are the Lights | Mess Hall | Dinker's Pond | Madman Stan | Bad News | The Tub)'

• A Good, Secret Place (1992) (includes: Desert Pickup | Roadside Pickup | Oscar's Audition | Paying Joe Back | Out of the Woods | A Good Cigar is a Smoke | The Direct Approach | The Champion | Stiff Intruders | Barney's Bigfoot Museum | Blarney | Spooked | The Grab | Eats | The Bleeder | The Good Deed | Joyce | Stickman | The Mask | A Good Secret Place)

• Fiends (1997) (includes: Fiends | Kitty Litter | The Bleeder | Desert Pickup | The Mask | Eats | The Hunt | Slit | Out of the Woods | Stiff Intruders | Special | Joyce | A Good, Secret Place)

• Dreadful Tales (2000) (includes: Invitation to Murder | The Grab | Saving Grace | Barney's Bigfoot Museum | Herman | The Champion | The Maiden | A Good Cigar is a Smoke | I'm Not a Criminal | Oscar's Audition | Into the Pit | Spooked | The Good Deed | The Direct Approach | Good Vibrations | Phil the Vampire | Paying Joe Back | The Fur Coat | Blarney | Dracuson's Driver | Roadside Pickup | Wishbone | First Date | Stickman | Mop Up)

• Madman Stan and Other Stories (2004) (includes: The Hunt | Eats | The Worshipper | The Maiden | Bedtime Stories | Desert Pickup | A Good Cigar is a Smoke | Invitation to Murder | The Champion | The Good Deed | Paying Joe Back | The Fur Coat | Blarney | A Good, Secret Place | Pickup on Highway One | Saving Grace | Spooked | Madman Stan | Kitty Litter | Slit)

• Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines (2014)

Anthologies

• Bad News Anthology (2000) (includes: the short story Double Date by Richard Laymon and stories from other contributors)

Autobiography

• A Writer's Tale (1998)

Tribute

• In Laymon's Terms (1998)