<div>For sixteen years, Amy Grady has been married to a man who slaps, punches, and kicks her. His anger is unpredictable and violence can explode at any moment. Except for the love of her son, Danny, Amy&rsquo;s life is lonely and cold. Walter Loveless, who has just moved in next door to Amy, is lonely, too. He has been living a life of isolation. When they meet, electricity crackles between them and the attraction is instant and powerful. They find in each other the love and affection they have craved for so long. But Loveless has secrets and a past that haunts him. Someone from that past is still pursuing him. Someone deadly. When Amy decides to escape her own past, she runs headlong into Loveless&rsquo;s.</div>

Loveless

<div>One hot summer day, a man in a business suit running wildly down a busy street attacks a woman and her toddler, neither of whom have ever seen him before . . . As he waits in his pickup truck for his wife to finish shopping, a man decides to take the shotgun off its rack, go inside the mall, and open fire on total strangers . . . While waiting to see her doctor, a woman takes a knife from her purse and begins stabbing others in the waiting room. Something is making people become violent and murderous . . . something they all have in common. When Eli Dunbar discovers what it is, he becomes afraid, because it is something he has in common with them&mdash;a drug prescribed to him by his psychiatrist. And now Eli is a ticking time bomb. Do you know all of the risks your prescription drugs might pose? Does your doctor? Or has the manufacturer hidden them from the public in the interest of profits? Meds . . . a thriller with deadly side effects.</div>

Meds

<div>&ldquo;She walked into my office smelling like a meadow of flowers and looking like one long night of trouble.&rdquo; Myron Foote is a private detective on the wrong side of the tracks who does not like to be on the receiving end of violence but is sometimes a little too quick to hand it out to others. From his dumpy little office on the edge of the red light district, he works bottom-of-the-barrel divorce cases . . . until a gorgeous redhead walks into his life and offers him $105,000 to pose as her uncle Percy. It sounds simple. Too simple. But who could turn down that kind of money? Or that kind of redhead? The job takes him down a dark path littered with lies and secrets, blackmail and murder . . . a path that leads straight into Cynthia Thacketer&rsquo;s arms . . . and into a deadly trap. Soon, all that stands between Foote and life in prison is an alibi he cannot use. Author Ray Garton keeps the pace brisk and the action intense in this hard-boiled modern noir that will have you guessing until the final gunshot.</div>

Murder Was My Alibi

<div>This breakout thriller by the master of horror will take its place on the shelf next to other Garton classics like Live Girls and The New Neighbor. This blockbuster is a chilling combination of thrills, terror, black humor, plot reversals, and a climax so shocking it will leave you shaken. Adam Julian, son of a Hollywood screenwriter, has a life many would kill for . . . and some would kill to keep. He is tangled in a web of forced sex, coerced into robbery, and it is only a short step to killing as a choice. At the center of the book is a sensational murder trial, which oddly resembles the O. J. Simpson case. The cast features an abrasive, starstruck female judge, blundering prosecuting attorneys, a nerdy defendant who reserves his right to silence, and Rona Horowitz, a pint&#8209;size ball of fire of a defense lawyer. The defendant may be guilty, but energetic Rona tries one outrageous legal stunt after another in order to exonerate her client. Drenched in the glamour and the sleaze of highline and lowlife Hollywood, this satirical and entertaining look at the criminal justice system, turned inside out and upside down by showbiz at its best and worst, is a panorama of crime, corruption, and violence delivered with grim authenticity and hilarious awfulness.</div>

Sex and Violence in Hollywood

<div>The true extent of human evil is revealed in this suspenseful thriller in which children are stolen&mdash;and sold online Children disappear all the time&mdash;but where do they go? While covering a missing-child case for a tabloid newspaper, washed-up reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles upon a horrifying lead. What he thought was a single kidnapping leads him to discover a human trafficking ring, specializing in sexually obedient children. Noble slowly uncovers a society so depraved that it can only be classified as evil; its members are no ordinary pedophiles, but rather professionals. United by their Satanist beliefs, they&rsquo;re willing to use any means necessary to train their &ldquo;merchandise&rdquo;&mdash;and keep Noble from uncovering their business. With the help of a hacker, a researcher, and a true-crime writer, Noble descends into the dark world of human trafficking. But in order to destroy it, he&rsquo;ll have to gamble not only his life, but also his sanity. Shackled, author Ray Garton&rsquo;s most controversial work yet, is not for the faint of heart&mdash;or stomach. </div>

Shackled

<div>One rainy night, Gerry Brady discovers a beautiful woman with heartbreaking eyes hiding in his garage. The moment he sees her, he is struck by an involuntary thought he does not understand: I&rsquo;ve found you. She is a woman in danger. He does not understand why he feels so powerfully drawn to her, but he feels compelled to help her, even though doing so puts his life and the lives of his friends in jeopardy. Gerry&rsquo;s relationship with Kendra draws him into a conspiracy too horrifying to believe . . . a conspiracy rooted in his own past. As he falls in love with a woman he does not know, he learns more about himself than he ever suspected. Trade Secrets is a riveting, emotional thriller that features the most memorable and terrifying villain Ray Garton has ever created.</div>

Trade Secrets

<div>Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there is plenty of shade but no escape from the heat. Marcus Reznick watched the love of his life blow her brains out and then dove to the bottom of a bottle of vodka. Now he&rsquo;s living in Riverside Mobile Home Park and trying to pull his life together . . . until a powerful temptation comes his way. Steve Regent is an internet pornographer who has moved to Riverside Mobile Home Park to work on a new website, Trailer Park Girls. He is looking for beautiful women . . . but instead, he finds something very ugly. Sherry Manning is a drug addict living in the trailer park with her boyfriend, Andy Winchell, who is a dealer. When a friend of a friend ODs in their trailer and turns out to be the son of a powerful politician, the truth about his death is covered up in the media. But Sherry and Andy know that truth . . . and she fears what might be done to silence them. Anna Dunfy is trying to make ends meet by doing temp jobs and stripping at night to support her mentally handicapped daughter, Kendra . . . an astonishingly beautiful girl with a woman&rsquo;s body, a child&rsquo;s mind, and a dangerous urge to do something naughty. It is a run-down little trailer park in northern California, but it could be anywhere in the United States. It is unassuming, unremarkable, and looks like a million other trailer parks. But do not let the sleepy appearance fool you. It is a nest of dark secrets, boiling lusts, and murder waiting to happen.</div>

Trailer Park Noir

<div>When he was a boy, Stuart Mullond&rsquo;s mother held him down while his urologist Dr. Ferguson performed a medical procedure on him that was so traumatizing and humiliating that its painful memory stayed with him for decades. For his entire life, his nightmares have been haunted by the snick-snick-snick of the doctor&rsquo;s scissors. Now a divorced, unemployed adult with a troubled teenage son, Stuart is trying to hold his life together...when Dr. Ferguson suddenly shows up again. He&rsquo;s not confined to nightmares anymore. He&rsquo;s very real. And he is determined to perform that same horrible procedure on Stuart&rsquo;s son. But all these years later, Dr. Ferguson looks exactly as he did when Stuart was a boy. And he&rsquo;s kept his scissors nice and sharp ... Snick-snick-snick! </div>

Scissors

<div>Something dark and sinister is spreading through the California town of Big Rock. Something more brutal and animalistic than normally lurks in the shadows of our daily lives. And its numbers are growing exponentially. Werewolves have arrived like an epidemic. This time, though, the outbreak is careful, planned by the hungry monsters themselves. The werewolves have dug their claws in deep and continue to grow ever more powerful. As the infection transfers through grisly violence and horrific sex, the entire town transforms into either starved predator or terrified prey. This time, there is no escape. Can the remaining band of humans fight back? Are there enough left to stop the trail of terror? Were there ever enough? This gut-wrenching follow-up to Ravenous by Grand Master of Horror Ray Garton will have you too scared to turn the page . . . or too scared to stop, if only to seek refuge in its shocking end.</div>

Bestial

<div>Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton&rsquo;s fourth novel, following not long after his award-nominated Live Girls, is regarded as a classic of the &ldquo;splatterpunk&rdquo; movement in horror fiction. Garton has a way with teenage boredom, atmospheric small-town isolation, incest, drug abuse, and over-the-top violence and he has managed to create a modern remake of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character, Mace (who wears a &ldquo;crucifax&rdquo; around his neck&mdash;a crucifix with an axlike blade on it) appearing on the scene, seducing mixed-up kids with his siren song of pleasure, power, and indulgence, all leading to a horrifically unsettling climax of death and destruction. And then there are the ratlike things that do the piper&rsquo;s bidding . . . </div>

Crucifax

<div>People from across the country and around the globe are coming to the mountain retreat of Hester Thorne, the enthralling leader of the Universal Enlightened Alliance. They are coming to hear the comforting wisdom and messages of peace offered by Orrin, the centuries-old entity that Hester channels. They are coming to donate their money and time to Hester, the Alliance, and Orrin. And some are chosen to make a more significant contribution . . . a greater sacrifice. Jordan Cross is looking for a reporter who disappeared while investigating the truth behind the Alliance . . . Lauren Schroeder is trying to find her husband, who joined the Alliance and kidnapped their son . . . Together, they will go behind the Universal Enlightened Alliance&rsquo;s false front of crystals and meditation and life-affirming positivity to discover the terrifying truth of an ancient cult bent on tearing down the wall between this world and one of unspeakable evil. The process has begun and the final dark rites are under way. It may already be too late . . . </div>

Dark Channel

<div>The emergency room is no stranger to death, but not like this. Normally, a death serves as a final ending. Now, as a parasite straight out of hell slithers from the body of a serial killer, death has only begun its terrifying, grisly rampage through the small hospital and town. A surgeon, a fugitive, a pregnant mother, a hospital worker&mdash;each serves as host for this spawn of the Devildevil, driven to commit the vilest of acts. Murder, infanticide, nymphomania, cannibalism&mdash;their flesh and bones become puppets in service of Satan&rsquo;s grotesque theater. Some brave few may try to stand against this evil, but as the Darklings closes in around them, are they digging for clues or digging their own graves? Packed with genuine thrills and pure terror, Darklings by Grand Master of Horror Ray Garton will truly scare the hell out of you.</div>

Darklings

<div>A terrifying tale from a Bram Stoker Award&ndash;nominated author who &ldquo;has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print&rdquo; (Cemetery Dance). Foster care is like Russian roulette, says fifteen-year-old Ryan Kettering, who&rsquo;s spent most of his young life in largely abusive homes. Sometimes the hammer clicks and you&rsquo;re fine. Sometimes it&rsquo;s a bullet to the brain. This time it seems the hammer has clicked. Living with the Prestons in a rambling two-story house in Shasta County, the chores are split between Ryan and five other foster kids. Not counting nine-year-old Maddy. Not much is expected of her. She stays in the basement. The other children don&rsquo;t know much about Maddy. But what they do know, they don&rsquo;t like. She&rsquo;s just not right. She speaks in a strange, gravelly adult voice. Maybe Ryan can make a difference. Spend time with her. Get acquainted. He understands what it means to be lonely. That&rsquo;s when he decides to do what no other child in the house dares: Ryan&rsquo;s going down to the basement. From the author of Live Girls and The Loveliest Dead, a recipient of the World Horror Convention&rsquo;s Grand Master Award, this is a chilling story of supernatural terror. </div>

The Girl in the Basement

<div>A &ldquo;lot lizard&rdquo; is a female hooker who works a highway truck stop as her territory. When trucker Bill Ketter looks for a little relaxation and release, he discovers, too late, that he has bitten off more than he can chew. In fact, his lot lizard is the one who does the biting&mdash;she is a vampire, one of a number who move from one truck stop to the next under the watchful and vicious eyes of the repulsive Carsey Brothers. Against his will, Bill becomes one of the undead. He follows the brothers and their cargo to another stop where he meets his ex-wife and children, and Bill finds himself battling the vampires and their age-old leader for the life of his teenage son. Garton has created another small masterpiece, contemporary adult horror at its most gruesome and loaded with extra doses of sex and gore. The confined setting creates a perfect claustrophobic stage for the story and the hellaciously quick pace never lets the action slow down.</div>

Lot Lizards

<div>In this &ldquo;shocker from [a] horror maestro,&rdquo; a grieving family&rsquo;s inheritance stirs the past and brings out the dead (Publishers Weekly). After the sudden death of their youngest child, Josh, Jenna and David Kellar need a fresh and healing new start. When Jenna is bequeathed her estranged father&rsquo;s home in the coastal town of Eureka, California, it&rsquo;s the opportunity the Kellars, their son Miles, and Jenna&rsquo;s elderly mother have been looking for. And the last thing they expected. The house has been waiting for them, and so have those who still walk there in the dark. There are the children seen playing in the backyard&mdash;at once innocent and terrifying; the noises and music that rattle the walls; the man who appears in Miles&rsquo;s bedroom at night, watching over him with an unhealthy obsession. But when Jenna sees Josh, she fears that she&rsquo;s either losing her mind or someone is playing a very sick game. For a local psychic, it&rsquo;s neither&mdash;it&rsquo;s a warning. For the Kellars, the past isn&rsquo;t dead. In fact, it&rsquo;s just starting to come alive. A Bram Stoker Award finalist for Live Girls, &ldquo;Garton shows a sure hand in . . . mixing The Amityville Horror, Poltergeist and Jack Ketchum&rsquo;s The Girl Next Door&rdquo; (Bookgasm). A winner of the World Horror Convention&rsquo;s Grand Master Award, Garton is in the company of such recipients as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. </div>

The Loveliest Dead

<div>A terrifying tale of demonic horror close to home from the Bram Stoker Award&ndash;nominated author of Live Girls. Dean Koontz has praised the work of Ray Garton as &ldquo;gripping, original, and sly&rdquo; and Ramsey Campbell described it as &ldquo;nightmarish.&rdquo; Now, the author of Night Life, Ravenous, and other chilling novels tells the story of a new neighbor who is far less friendly than she appears . . . The Pritchard family is content enough in their home on Deerfield Avenue&mdash;until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street. Their new neighbor is pleasant, and also astonishingly beautiful. She catches young Robby&rsquo;s eye through a window while he&rsquo;s in a very compromising position, and eventually, he surrenders to her advances. So does his father. And his stepmother. And many others on Deerfield Avenue. But something about Lorelle&rsquo;s seduction leaves them spent, even sick. Her influence begins to change them in shocking ways&mdash;and then the killings start. This new neighbor doesn&rsquo;t just want their bodies; she wants their souls . . . A novel of supernatural evil from a Grand Master of Horror, The New Neighbor is a riveting story of demonic depravity hidden behind the facades of a quiet small town. </div>

The New Neighbor

<div>The long-awaited follow-up to the vampire classic Live Girls, from the Bram Stoker Award&ndash;nominated &ldquo;horror maestro&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Night Life, a brilliant sequel to the classic novel of vampires reimagined Live Girls. When Ray Garton&rsquo;s Live Girls was published in 1987, it changed the face of vampire fiction. The gritty, urban story of Davey Owen&rsquo;s dark seduction and reluctant transformation into a creature of the undead has become a classic of the genre. In Night Life, nearly two decades after battling the vampires of the Midnight Club in New York City, Davey is a marked man. He lives a quiet life in Los Angeles with the love of his life, Casey Thorne. The vampires he did not destroy back then have been hunting him ever since, eager to take their revenge&mdash;and now they have found him. For what he did to them, they are determined to make him pay with his last drop of blood. With the help of old friends and new allies, Davey and Casey must face the bloodthirsty nightmare of their past. This time, they may not have a future.</div>

Night Life

<div>&ldquo;His werewolf is a terrifying creature . . . Garton&rsquo;s well-paced horror novel reworks the werewolf myth to great effect.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly When Emily Crane&rsquo;s car breaks down on a dark, lonely road at night, she is attacked and raped by a man she kills in self-defense. That night, the dead rapist walks out of the morgue. Later, Emily begins to experience strange cravings and her body undergoes terrifying changes. When brutal killings leave victims partially eaten in the northern California coastal town of Big Rock, Sheriff Arlin Hurley scoffs at the talk of werewolves . . . until a tuft of wolf&rsquo;s fur is found on a victim. It soon becomes clear that whatever is responsible for the killings, it is not alone. There are more than one. And they are doing something much worse than killing and eating people. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Ray Garton reinvented the vampire mythos with his erotic novel Live Girls. Now he has updated the curse of the werewolf in Ravenous.</div>

Ravenous

<div>In the debut horror novel from the author of Live Girls, a small town in Northern California finds itself at the whims of an old and hungry evil. Donald Ellis is in a bad place. On a forced leave of absence from work, his personal life has also collapsed. But he&rsquo;s certain that something else is going on&mdash;something dreadfully wrong with his town. People are disappearing, leaving inexplicable traces of what might have happened to them. And then there are the dreams&mdash;horrifying nightmares seeping slowly into even more troubling daytime visions. Then Freddie appears on his doorstep&mdash;a strangely powerful young woman who tells him that his intuition is right. A dark force has taken over his once-sleepy northern California home. Creatures are roaming the night, hungry for lust, thirsty for blood, and knowing exactly how to satisfy their cravings. To fight an evil that hides in plain sight, Donald and Freddie will have to push the boundaries of their own sanity&mdash;and risk becoming a part of the very shadows they seek to destroy . . .</div>

Seductions

<div>&quot;This is the first fiction collection from Garton&hellip;his writing is compelling.&quot; -- Publishers Weekly Ray Garton exposes himself as a master storyteller in METHODS OF MADNESS, with six stories centered on the psychotic, twisted deviations in human nature. Anchored by the riveting short novel, &quot;Dr. Krusadian&#39;s Method,&quot; Garton&#39;s style is so real, so believable, he could be describing people you encounter every day. The couple upstairs, your neighbors and relatives, maybe even your own husband or wife. What kind of madness is really played out behind their shuttered windows? Also features the stories &quot;Fat,&quot; &quot;Active Member,&quot; Something Kinky,&quot; &quot;Sinema,&quot; and Shock Radio.&quot; This is Ray Garton at his terrifying best. &quot;Garton is on his way to becoming a major name in any field he works in.&quot; -- Joe R. Lansdale</div>

Methods of Madness

<div>Medical research? Genetic experiments? No one knows exactly what goes on inside the sprawling BioGenTech building on the edge of town. But after an enormous explosion at the facility, people in town start turning up dead . . . and in pieces. Something is loose in Hope Valley. Something big . . . and fast . . . and hungry. It has a lot of legs, a nasty disposition and a big appetite. This is one spider you can&rsquo;t step on.</div>

'Nids

<div>Steve Benedetti has a dark and lonely job from which he has decided to retire. On his way home from what he intends to be his final assignment, he stops at a carnival to kill some time. There he meets the Serpent Girl, a woman who mesmerizes him as no other woman has...and stirs in him desires that blind his own better judgment. They each have a dangerous secret. Steve decides to take her with him on the road, a decision that binds them&mdash;and their secrets&mdash;together in ways neither could ever suspect. They begin an erotic journey that takes them much farther than their physical destination...a bloody journey that will irrevocably change them both. Previously published as Cemetery Dance. </div>

Serpent Girl

<div>The Fear Is Spreading In the third thrilling installment of Ray Garton's six-part Frankenstorm, a biological weapon is accidentally released during a killer hurricane—and one desperate woman is about to spread the word. . . Frankenstorm Even with a massive storm front threatening to devastate the California coast, Latrice Innes has no choice but to deliver a package to an address in Humbolt County. She has no idea what's in it but, considering she'll be paid two-thousand dollars for the delivery, it's probably illegal. As a jobless single mother, she'll do whatever it takes to get the money. But when she arrives at the home of her contact—and the lights go out in the storm—Latrice finds herself facing a much deadlier threat. An elderly man is waiting, biting and scratching like a deranged maniac. He's a test subject who escaped from a government lab. He's infected with a virus that's turned him into a raging biological weapon. And now Latrice is infected, too. . . Praise For Ray Garton "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators."—F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" —Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." — Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." —Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." —Cemetery Dance magazine 14,500 Words</div>

Category 8

<div>"Remember when paperback originals were cool? Sex, action, suspense? Try FRANKENSTORM. It's old school." —Stephen King A storm of epic proportions is brewing off the coast of northern California. Residents have been warned to prepare for disaster. It's a false hope in the face of what's coming. . . Frankenstorm In a secret government lab, virologist Fara McManus tries to stop an experiment out of control—before more human subjects are infected. But in a blazing hail of bullets, survivalist Ollie Monk launches a paramilitary attack on the lab, releasing the infected into the night. And as the nightmare escalates to a fever pitch, internet blogger Ivan Renner traces the destruction as it claims more victims, beginning with a single mother unknowingly spreading the virus. A father and son, held hostage by a lunatic. A local sheriff, single-handedly fighting madness, murder, and worse. No one will find shelter from this storm. Praise For Ray Garton "Gripping, original, and sly."—Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Garton will scare you."—Fangoria Includes Ray Garton's bonus story "The Guy Down the Street"</div>

Frankenstorm

<div>PREPARE FOR THE STORM In the first terrifying installment of Ray Garton's six-part Frankenstorm, a natural disaster of epic proportions is brewing off the coast of California—and a man-made nightmare is about to be unleashed. . . FRANKENSTORM: On the eve of the biggest storm in west coast history, virologist Fara McManus shows up at work in a secret government lab where microbiologist Dr. Jeremy Corcoran has been working on a new bioweapon, using the homeless as human guinea pigs. Concerned for the subjects, Fara decides to stay. Especially now. Between the raging storm outside and the rage-inducing chemicals in the patients, a million things could go wrong. But the last thing Fara expects to happen is an armed attack on the lab, an explosion of gunfire, and an army of men smashing the barriers. Releasing the infected. Spreading the virus. . .into the world. On a night like this, there is no shelter from the storm. PRAISE FOR RAY GARTON "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators." –F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" –Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." --Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." --Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." --Cemetery Dance magazine 15,000 Words</div>

Severe Risk

<div>Terror Hits The Fan In the second shocking installment of Ray Garton's six-part Frankenstorm, a natural disaster sets off a deadly chain reaction of fear, panic, paranoia—and uncontrollable rage—in the ultimate fight for survival. . . Frankenstorm With the storm of the century tearing up the northern California coast, internet blogger and conspiracy expert Ivan Renner has other things on his mind—namely, uncovering the mystery behind an abandoned hospital used as a government lab. Joining him on his investigation is military veteran and survivalist Ollie Monk. While Ivan follows leads about missing homeless people to confirm his theory about secret biological experiments, Ollie follows his gut. With his own trained platoon of armed mercenaries, Ollie is prepared to ambush the laboratory just as the storm hits. But when the fateful moment arrives—and the bullets begin to fly—their surprise attack backfires in ways not even they could prepare for. It unleashes the test subjects. It spreads the virus. It seals their fate. . .forever. This time, there's no fighting back. The conspiracy theories are true. Praise For Ray Garton "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators."—F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" —Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." — Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." —Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." —Cemetery Dance magazine 16,000 Words</div>

Hurricane Quentin

<div>Breaking The Laws Of Nature In the fifth explosive installment of Ray Garton's six-part Frankenstorm, an insidious man-made enemy wages war on our biology, humanity, and last shred of sanity. . . Frankenstorm If anyone knows where the bodies are buried in Humboldt County, it's Sheriff Mitch Kaufman, who's seen it all: The meth lab operated by the Traylor family; the arsenal of weapons stockpiled by survivalist nutcase Ollie Monk; even the suspicious activity inside the old mental hospital. But it's not until Hurricane Quentin hits the coast—and all hell breaks loose—that Sheriff Kaufman is able to piece together the puzzle that's plagued his community. Homeless people have been infected with a biological weapon for the government. Rabid subjects have escaped into the storm, spreading violence, madness, and contagion throughout the county. And the only thing that can stop this large-scale disaster is a small-town cop who's just crazy enough to try. . . When everything goes to hell, there's only one place to find peace: In the eye of the storm. Praise For Ray Garton "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators."—F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" —Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." —Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." —Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." —Cemetery Dance magazine 15,500 Words</div>

Frankenstorm: Chaos Theory

<div>There are things worse than death. . . In the sixth and final installment of Ray Garton's Frankenstorm, a devastated California community must fight for their lives—or fall prey to a bio-engineered nightmare far worse than death. . . Frankenstorm They were told to prepare for the worst. The storm of the century, Hurricane Quentin. But nothing could prepare the citizens of Humboldt County for the shocking chain of events that would touch everyone in its path. In a secret government lab, a biological weapon has been injected into homeless test subjects and unleashed upon the world. A band of survivalists have unwittinglyexposed themselves to this man-made infection that turns them into rabid killing machines. In homes across the coast, mothers, fathers, and children struggle to stay alive while a few brave souls—virologist Fara McManus, blogger Ivan Renner, and Sheriff Mitch Kaufman—will risk more than their lives. . .in what could be humanity's last stand. Many will fall prey to the chaos. Because .when terror hits the fan, there is no shelter from the storm. Praise For Ray Garton "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators."—F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" —Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." —Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." —Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." —Cemetery Dance magazine 18,300 Words</div>

Survivors

<div>Women And Children First In the fourth shattering installment of Ray Garton's six-part Frankenstorm, an outbreak of madness, mayhem, and murder has every man, woman and child running for shelter. But home is where the horror is. . . Frankenstorm Andy is more than a little worried when his ex-wife—a former drug addict who has custody of their son—is seen hanging around with her old crowd. But when he learns that her dealer has moved in with them, Andy has no choice but to take action. He finds an unlikely ally in Police Deputy Ram von Pohle—a local bully who tormented Andy in school. Ram swears he wants to make up for those years of abuse. He convinces Andy that the raging storm is the perfect opportunity to break in to his ex-wife's home and save Andy's boy. But when the weather reaches a fever pitch, their simple plan backfires. The night quickly escalates into a bloodbath. Ram explodes with rage, bodies are torn apart by bullets, and Andy and his son find themselves trapped inside a nightmare. . .with a deranged sadist. When the storm hits this close to home, no one is safe. And no one gets out alive. . . Praise For Ray Garton "Scary. . .involving. . .mature and thoughtful." —Stephen King on Dark Channel "Gripping, original, and sly." —Dean Koontz on Live Girls "Ray Garton is, and always has been, one of horror fiction's great innovators."—F. Paul Wilson "Garton never fails to go for the throat!" —Richard Laymon "Garton has a flair for taking veteran horror themes and twisting them to evocative or entertaining effect." —Publishers Weekly "Razor-sharp and gut-punch brutal, Garton will scare you." —Mark Kidwell, Fangoria magazine "Garton does not even know that there is top to go over." —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column "Ray Garton has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print." —Cemetery Dance magazine 17,500 Words</div>

Ray Garton

Books By Ray Garton (29 Books)