Note: "...it appears, with the names changed and the ending altered and expanded, as a diary inserted into Laymon's posthumous Mummy story, To Wake the Dead (or Amara as it was known in the UK). To Wake the Dead was written very early in Laymon's career, and it never sold until Leisure bought it after his death. That's not surprising, since it's a mediocre story and neither adds anything new, nor does anything interesting, with the supernatural antagonist. Whether 'Into the Pit' appeared first in Laymon's manuscript for Amara, or if it appeared first in Dreadful Tales and Laymon (or perhaps his daughter Kelly) expanded it for use in the middle of Amara is unclear, but makes for another oddity of Laymon's body of work, and one you wouldn't see outside of the UK unless you were into imports." [info from: https://beta.peakd.com/books/@modernzorker/michaels-horror-library-laymon-odds-n-ends-part-2-country-specific-releases]