In The Loveliest Dead horror master Ray Garton is at the top of his macabre form. The “loveliest dead” are far from lovely but they are definitely dead and making life hell for the living.

Following a sequence of increasingly dire personal tragedies, culminating in the unexplained death of their four-year-old son, Josh, Jenna and David Kella plan to make a new start of their lives on the old family homestead they’ve inherited just outside Eureka, California with their surviving son Miles. What they discover, though, is a nightmare. Ghostly children play on the backyard swings and vanish abruptly. In a cruel and maddening irony, one of the child ghosts resembles their dead son Josh. The horrors pile up as psychics, Ouija boards and poltergeists drive the couple to the borders of madness and terror.

Ray Garton is the author of close to sixty books of which perhaps the best known is Bram Stoker nominee Live Girls. Some twenty reissues can be found on Garton’s author page on our website.
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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. Read more…