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Amanda, it was actually your comments on Garton that had me pick one up. Thanks for the recommendation!

Amanda, it was actually your comments o..."
Glad to hear it :) He's a fascinating writer both in and out of his books.



It features a fictional version of the Warrens a couple who went around "investigating" "Haunted Houses" back in the dayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_and_L.... Garton worked with them to write his book In a Dark Place which eventually became A Haunting in Conneticut. He made it clear he felt the family was nuts and that the Warrens hired him to make the whole thing up with some nods to what the family said was going on. They were into the idea of paranormal research as a means of fame and money ala Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Its also a pretty awesome haunted house story that features a family dealing with a tragic loss. It was my first Garton book and I got it through the Leisure horror book club bakc in the early 2000s.


Ha yep he seems to be fond of that!

So Loveliest Dead takes off on this scenario? It's been sitting on my shelf for a year or two. Time to move it up in the pile




Sort of. It's mostly its own book though


He will be releasing others in the near future.

"Steven Benedetti's work has him traveling the country, and driving dark, lonely highways.
But tonight, he passes a carnival and decides to stop - for a break, to be around others... just for something different.
At this carnival, Steven Benedetti meets the Serpent Girl, a woman who stirs him like no other woman has, a woman who, like Benedetti, has a secret.
They hit the night roads together and begin a journey that will change Steven Benedetti forever."
The book just hit Amazon and will be available on B&N soon. Along with this novella, is the first chapter from another Garton novel, Sex and Violence in Hollywood, as well as an article Garton wrote regarding the genesis of this novel.
It's available for only $2.99. Please check it out and feel free to post a review on Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, etc.
Thanks.

It features two characters from his Night Life and Bestial novels:
"Karen Moffett and Gavin Keoph have investigated vampires in Los Angeles in Night Life and werewolves on the northern California coast in Bestial, but this time they face something utterly baffling . . . and deadly.
Blockbuster horror novelist Martin Burgess has money to burn and enjoys spending it to find out if the paranormal things he writes about are real. He hires Moffett and Keoph and sends them to California’s Mt. Shasta. Long believed by spiritual seekers and New Agers to be a “vortex” of magnetic and spiritual energies, Mt. Shasta is a mystical locale, allegedly the site of alien visitations, paranormal apparitions, bizarre physical phenomena, and even Lemurians, an ancient race of little people from Atlantis believed to be living inside the mountain.
Strange things are happening in the small town at the foot of the mountain, things that have remained invisible to most, but not all, of the residents — things that have caught the attention of Martin Burgess and his small army of computer geeks and conspiracy theorists.
Skeptical of the New Age mumbo-jumbo, Moffett and Keoph encounter an extraordinary, hungry creature that is being used to malevolent ends by a powerful and cruel enemy. Uncovering the mysterious secret in Mt. Shasta is one thing — staying alive long enough to share it with anyone is another."
Ray is looking for readers who'd be willing to, in exchange for a free e-book copy, review the book on Amazon, their blog, Goodreads, etc. If you're interested, please send an email to webmaster@raygartononline.com and include whether you'd like an .ePub or .Mobi version of the book. The first 10 people to email will receive a copy with further instructions. Ray thanks those willing to help him out.

"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 Mt. 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."

In the days leading up the release of The Folks, Ray will be putting some of his other books on sale. We will put the information for those here as they go on sale.
Following the release of The Folks, Ray will be re-releasing The Folks 2: No Place Like Home which has only been released as a limited edition novella. That will be followed by an all-new, never before released The Folks 3: Home is Where the Heart Is.

My personal favorite Garton books is SCISSORS! It is so demented.
Garton writes in different genres and some of his books like Biofire are thrillers rather than strictly horror. He is also an accomplished Noir writer who has written several dark mystery and suspense crime novels, for example Sex and Violence in Hollywood.
If you like his style you will probably like everything he writes- I definitely do.
Books mentioned in this topic
The Loveliest Dead (other topics)Ravenous (other topics)
Bestial (other topics)
Ravenous (other topics)
Several of which explain the basis for some of his books. The link above takes you to a blog about his book Crucifax.