Ray Garton

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 and their secrets 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.

A terrifying tale of demonic horror close to home from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Live Girls. Dean Koontz has praised the work of Ray Garton as "gripping, original, and sly" and Ramsey Campbell described it as "nightmarish." 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-until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street. Their new neighbor is pleasant, and also astonishingly beautiful. She catches young Robby's eye through a window while he'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's seduction leaves them spent, even sick. Her influence begins to change them in shocking ways-and then the killings start. This new neighbor doesn'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.

Pieces of terror, pieces of suspense, pieces of darkness combine to create Pieces of Hate, master storyteller Ray Garton's short story collection. Nine works, including A Gift From Above, a new novel that will surely hit you from below, are here compiled for the sole purpose of scaring you onto the next page. Garton illuminates the dark corners in us all and highlights the depths of the human condition. He takes our ordinary, daily assumptions and turns them on the reader to frightening effect. He makes reading terrifying yet compulsive. He scares us in so many ways. Here are a but a few in one collection. Included in this collection: A Gift From Above Choices Pieces Cat Hater Bad Blood Ophilia Raphaeldo The Devil's Music Bait God's Work

First time in a digital format for this long sold-out limited edition novella The morning after a strange meteor shower, the residents of Mount Crag awaken to find a new breed of flower blooming everywhere. They are beautiful, unlike any other flower anyone has seen. And there are so many of them But before long, the large flowers begin to pop off their stems ... and crawl around ... and hunt. The people of Mount Crag soon realize that they are the prey. Crawlers is a pulpy throwback story in the tradition of Day of the Triffids. Ray Garton has delivered another winner with this nerve-wracking tale of horror.

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's certain that something else is going on-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-horrifying nightmares seeping slowly into even more troubling daytime visions. Then Freddie appears on his doorstep-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-and risk becoming a part of the very shadows they seek to destroy ...

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, "Dr. Krusadian's Method," Garton'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 "Fat," "Active Member," Something Kinky," "Sinema," and "Shock Radio." This is Ray Garton at his terrifying best. "This is the first fiction collection from Garton...his writing is compelling." -- Publishers Weekly "Garton is on his way to becoming a major name in any field he works in." -- Joe R. Lansdale

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'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's body, a child'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.

When he was a boy, Stuart Mullond'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'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's not confined to nightmares anymore. He's very real. And he is determined to perform that same horrible procedure on Stuart's son. But all these years later, Dr. Ferguson looks exactly as he did when Stuart was a boy. And he's kept his scissors nice and sharp ... Snick-snick-snick

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't step on.

Since the dawn of time, across almost every culture, there have been legends of shapeshifters. Men who turn into beasts and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.Of the shapeshifter tales, none invokes as much terror as the legend of the werewolf.The stories of men who become wolves persisted through the centuries from campfire folk tales to the modern age, where we are still thrilled and horrified by tales of bloodthirsty predators in our midst.Twelve of the most successful authors of werewolf fiction in the 21st Century have returned to their worlds and characters, to bring you a truly blood-soaked collection of werewolf horror.Jeff Strand: Ivan's Night OutRay Garton: Outside of NowhereDavid Wellington: Hunters MoonJonathan Janz: The Kiss of Divna AntonovGlenn Rolfe: The Dead Brother SituationGraeme Reynolds: Blood RelationsPaul Kane: LifelineThomas Emson: The HuntDavid Watkins: The OriginalT W Piperbrook: The Great StormNick Stead: BloodlinesMatt Serafini: Evernight Circle

Andy Sayer knows what it's like to feel like a freak. Ever since he was badly burned in a fire started by his drunken mother, the horrible scars on his face have set him apart from others, isolated him. Now, the patriarch of a prominent but mysterious family, Matthew Bollinger, has taken an interest in Andy. The Bollingers own the entire area and just about everything in it. They live in an enormous house built on the side of Mount Crag, but they are never seen. Matthew Bollinger wants Andy to come live with them. In the Bollingers, Andy finds acceptance ... and the deepest kind of corruption and evil. Sometimes the worst disfigurements remain invisible ... until it's too late.

What would you do if the person you loved could kill you with an accidental thought?A man: At the end of his rope, running from his own mistakes... a drug deal gone wrong and a lot of money owed to a powerful figure who will happily take his life as payment.A woman: Running from a husband who wants to kill her and a man who wants to own her, with a secret that could turn the city, the country, perhaps the world into a mass grave.Each has lost everything. Together, they have nothing to lose... but their lives.Drawn together by loneliness and desperation... and a secret project called... Biofire.

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction. Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all-new terrors that consume from without and within.The creatures are here. It's now time to find . . . In Darkness, Delight. Featuring: Josh Malerman: One Thousand Words on a Tombstone - Bully JackJeff Strand: The Last Thing You Want to BeRay Garton: A SurvivorRichard Chizmar: FatherMary SanGiovanni: The Giant's TableTim Curran: White RabbitChristopher Motz: ScalesKev Harrison: SnapEvans Light: GertrudeMikal Trimm: InfestationMark Cassell: River of Nine TailsMason Morgan: The People in the ToiletAndrew Lennon: Silent ScreamChad Lutzke: He Wears the LakeAdam Light: Valley of the DunesEddie Generous: The Newell PostFrank Oreto: The Worms TurnGregor Xane: The Ugly TreeKristopher Rufty: HinklesGlenn Rolfe: Human TouchCurtis M. Lawson: The Green Man of Freetown About Corpus Press: Corpus Press is a publisher of horror and weird fiction, specializing in modern pulp that emphasizes plot over gore. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the press has garnered praise from SCREAM Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Horror Novel Reviews, Hellnotes and others for its Bad Apples: Slices of Halloween Horror series, the anthology Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love, and for its short story collections and novellas. Horror anthologies and collections from Corpus Press: Screamscapes: Tales of TerrorToes Up: Horror to Die ForDead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted LoveHalloween horror books from Corpus Press: Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween StoriesBad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween HorrorBad Apples 2: Six Slices of Halloween HorrorBad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror