Ray Garton’s Ravenous does for werewolves what Live Girls did for vampires.

When Emily Crane’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’s fur is found on a victim. It soon becomes clear that whatever is responsible for the killings, it’s not alone. There are more than one. And they are doing something much worse than killing and eating people.

Nearly 25 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.

Here’s what Publishers Weekly said about Ravenous:

“For Garton, lycanthropy is a sexually transmitted diseas, spread mostly through rape, that runs rampant through a small town fraught with affairs and intrigues. His werewolf is a terrifying creature: not a remorseful, helpless cursed human but a homicidal beast driven by a dual urge to breed and feed. Hurley is a sheriff to root for, and Garton’s well-paced horror novel reworks the werewolf myth to great effect.”

To learn what was on Ray Garton’s mind when he wrote Ravenous, and for an expert comparison of vampires to werewolves Click here.

Night Life is the brilliant sequel to Ray Garton’s most famous novel, Live Girls.

Ray Garton’s Live Girls. published in 1987, changed the face of vampire fiction. The gritty, urban story of Davey Owen’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–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.

If you’re truly bloodthirsty,we urge you to read Live Girls and Night Life back to back. With the lights on.

Ray Garton’s Shackled has been traumatizing readers for 15 years. Here are what some of them have to say about it:

“I almost couldn’t bear to continue; but the story was so gripping I knew I would have to….It is so frightening that it doesn’t seem there is any further way for the story to intensify….The finale is virtuosic, and the plot twists up more and more, exponentially so, to a climax which is nothing short of vertiginous.”
– Michael Edwards

“Read it if you can. But I warn you, you might not be able to. And that is the highest recommendation it is possible to give horror fiction.”
– Richard Wright

“There were several occasions when I had to put to the book down, take a deep breath and say, ‘I can’t believe that happened to that character!’ If you want to be shocked, if you have a strong stomach or if you just want to find out how terrible the world can be–highly recommend Shackled. Just don’t expect it to be a pleasant ride.”
– Eoghain O’Keefe

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Children disappear all the time. It’s in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them?

While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely…a story about something so unspeakable, he doesn’t know if anyone will believe it…a story that pulls him down into the depths of evil and depravity and threatens his very life.

With the help of a bestselling true-crime writer, Noble descends into the dark world of human trafficking, where fear and pain are tools of control and innocence is sold to the highest bidder. As a handful of good and decent people try to combat a monstrously powerful and all too real evil, some lives will be shattered, others will be ended…but none will be the same.

Want to know what was on Ray Garton’s mind when he wrote Shackled? Read his blog here.

E-Reads doesn’t publish a lot of original fiction, but when Ray Garton offered us the opportunity to be the first to release Meds, we didn’t have to think twice. It’s not only a gripping thriller, but a work of social significance, dramatizing what happens when people dependent on prescription drugs are suddenly deprived of their pills.

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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’s something he has in common with them–a drug prescribed to him by his psychiatrist. And now Eli is a ticking time bomb…

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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? Those questions are answered with a vengeance in Ray Garton’s Meds, a thriller with lethal side effects.

And here’s another question: what do you think is worse? Chronic pain or addictive dependency on pain-killers?  Before you answer, read author Ray Garton’s gripping account of his personal struggle with both.

“What man hasn’t fantasized about finding a beautiful woman in his garage one rainy night — a woman he’s never seen before but with whom he feels an immediate emotional connection — who leads him into a deadly adventure that ends up turning his entire life upside down?”

That’s the question Ray Garton asked himself that triggered Trade Secrets.

WithTrade Secrets E-Reads continues its rerelease of
Ray Garton’s thrillers, and this one displays as few others Garton’s ability to depict depravity in all its graphic horror.

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’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’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 doesn’t 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. And if you’d like to hear more about the process behind the creation of this book, read Garton’s fascinating posting here.

Hungry for more Garton?  Go to his author page.

Each thriller by Ray Garton that E-Reads reissues reaffirms his unmatched role as a master of dark and horrifying suspense.  Dark Channel is no exception.

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’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 underway. It may already be too late…

As is his custom, Garton has written a deeply personal essay describing the inspiration for Dark Channel. Read Dark Channel: The Story Behind the Book and you will understand what provoked this Grand Master of the Horror Writers of America to reach into the heart of darkness and bring back this disturbing trophy.

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’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’s.

Loveless – A dark love story.

What was Ray Garton thinking when he wrote this book? You can read it in his own words here.

Can’t get enough Ray Garton? Visit his author page for lots more.

The Pritchard family is quite content in their home on Deerfield Avenue…until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street. The new neighbor is astonishingly beautiful…friendly…and seductive. Each member of the Pritchard family surrenders to her advances. Then Lorelle’s influence changes them in shocking ways. Soon everyone on Deerfield is changing.

Then the killings start.

The New Neighbor is not interested in borrowing a cup of sugar or using your weed-whacker. She’s after your soul.

Garton has posted a terrific piece about The New Neighbor and we invite you to check it out here.

Once you’ve fully recovered from The New Neighbor we invite you to visit Ray Garton’s author page for other masterpieces of suspense and horror.

What is a ‘Nid and why should you be scared out of your wits by one?

If we tell you that that’s short for “arachnid” and that’s the scientific term for spiders, you’ll know why. And these aren’t just any old spiders, which is bad enough, but these are genetically modified. So yes, unless you’re into ‘Nids, you definitely want to be afraid when you read Ray Garton’s horror novel…

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.

Ray Garton says most people have a love-hate relationship with spiders. We don’t think so. We think most people have a hate-hate-hate-hate relationship with them.  Garton has blogged about them and you can decide for yourself if you can find a glimmer of love for these fugitives from a horror novel – a Ray Garton horror novel.

E-Reads is extremely selective about publishing original fiction but we simply could not pass up the opportunity to bring Horror Grand Master Ray Garton’s horrifying Trailer Park Noir into the world. His book begins like an almost indiscernible wisp of smoke in a forest and builds to a conflagration that consumes everything and everyone.

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Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there’s plenty of shade but no escape from the heat. It’s 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 don’t let the sleepy appearance fool you. It’s a nest of dark secrets, boiling lusts and murder waiting to happen.

Meet the players:

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’s looking for beautiful women…but instead finds something very ugly.

Sherry Manning is a drug addict living in the trailer park with her boyfriend, Andy Winchell, 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.

Little by little Ray Garton, a lifetime Grand Master of the horror genre, stirs these disparate ingredients into an exclusive formula that will blow you away. To understand what motivated him to write Trailer Park Noir, read Garton’s reminiscence.

Visit the little shop of horrors known as Ray Garton’s author page.

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