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.

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.

Gay interior decorator Gregory Pluckrose joins his super-wealthy clients for a Caribbean cruise, only to find himself shanghaied by pirates. This is not the most desirable situation for a man who finds adventure vulgar.  Nor is his dignity enhanced when he is he befriended by…a pig.

Yet this porcine sidekick proves to be not just a blessing but Pluckrose’s salvation.

These are the components of The Disappearance of Gregory Pluckrose, a witty thriller from the pen of Elizabeth Gundy, author of such highly praised books as Bliss and Love, Infidelity and Drinking to Forget. She is also co-author with William Kotzwinkle of the bestselling childrens series Walter the Farting Dog.

Of Gregory Pluckrose the New York Times raved “It is as if Oscar Wilde had been parachuted into the jungle. You will find yourself picking out and stowing away your favorite lines. There are enough twists in the story to make a yogi sore. Under the spell of Gundy’s droll and accomplished prose you will end up smiling through the whole thing.”

In Mercy Mission, the nerve-wracking sequel to The Warriors of God, Richard Welsh returns, now working as an aide to a U.S. Senator.

Three U.S. Marine security guards are gunned down by unknown assailants at an outdoor café in Guatemala City, far from Afghanistan and the world’s attention. Could it be terrorism, or backlash from the war on drugs?

Welsh is sent down to Guatemala to investigate, for the most mundane of reasons: the father of one of the dead Marines was a major political contributor. No one expects him to find out anything, least of all himself. But, as soon as he arrives in Guatemala City, he falls into a series of discoveries, each one more disturbing than the last.

The attack on the Marines seems to stretch from events as far back as the dirty guerrilla wars of the 80′s to the mountains of drugs making their way along Central American pathways from Colombia to Mexico today. Circumstances force Welsh together with a mysterious American woman whose motives are unclear. She may be his ally, or she may regard him as a sacrificial pawn in pursuit of her own agenda. When the final crucial piece of information comes into Welsh’s hands it will take every last bit of luck and skill for him to make it out of Guatemala alive.

Because, strangely enough, it seems that as many people in Washington as in Guatemala want him dead.

There are many jungles, from the tropical rain forest to Washington back rooms. But in each case the most dangerous predator is always the same.

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After serving with distinction in the Marine Corps, William Christie poured everything he’d learned into gritty, fast-paced violent novels of men in war, and E-Reads is happy to deliver them to you.

Don’t forget Christie’s The Blood We Shed, a must-read novel about the making of a marine fighting unit.

After serving with distinction in the Marine Corps, William Christie poured everything he’d learned into gritty, fast-paced violent novels of men in war, and E-Reads is happy to deliver them to you.

Christie’s 1992 thriller The Warriors of God astoundingly anticipated the terrorist scourge of the next decade. Now brought up to date by the author and available again as nuke-hungry Iran defies the world, its plot may just be the stuff of tomorrow’s headlines.

The long-simmering conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran finally turns hot with an act of terrorism against a U.S. naval ship in the Persian Gulf. American military retaliation shuts down Iranian oil production, and it’s war. But not the war we’ve known in the past. Not the war of armies, ships, and planes. No, the war we’ve come to know today. The war of the weak against the strong. War in the shadows. With battles aimed not at the destroying the enemy’s armies, but bent on making headlines.

A handpicked team of elite Iranian commandos are silently making their way to the United States. To Washington D.C. Their target is the President of the United States. In the White House.

Major Ali Khurbasi of the Iranian Army leads the assault team. Tough, experienced, American-educated and ready to die for a mission whose wisdom he secretly doubts. Former Marine officer Richard Welsh is the Pentagon liaison to the FBI investigation that begins once it is clear that some violent force has landed on our shores. It is a headlong race as the Iranians fight to reach their objective and the elite of America’s law enforcement and military struggle to stop them.

Read Mercy Mission, the dramatic sequel to The Warriors of God. And a must-read is The Blood We Shed, Christie’s gripping fictional account of how a raw Marine unit develops into a crack fighting force, the “tip of the spear.”

The United States Marine Corps is a legendary fighting force. Literally thousands of books and movies have glorified its history. But now a Marine veteran has written a novel that opens up the curtain and provides a look deep inside the modern Corps: the good, the bad, and the sometimes just plain embarrassing.

In William Christie’s The Blood We Shed Lieutenant Mike Galway takes command of his first platoon and it is not at all what he bargained for. What he anticipated was the challenge of training a unit of disciplined Marine infantrymen to go to war. Instead he finds himself responsible for a group of unruly American teenagers, for whom he has to become a combination of surrogate father, psychologist, high school principal, marriage counselor, financial advisor, conflict mediator, and drug and alcohol therapist. The results are frequently hilarious, always frustrating, and sometimes heartbreakingly tragic.

While Galway learns the secrets of leadership he and his men are overtaken by the events of September 11, 2001, and the time for playing war is over. Now at the place where Marines always expect to be, the tip of the spear, the men of Echo company deploy aboard ship and race towards the Middle East. There they find themselves fighting the first battle of a war that continues to this day, in a place none of them could expect.

William Christie
After serving with distinction in the Marine Corps, William Christie poured everything he’d learned into gritty, fast-paced violent novels of men in war, and E-Reads is happy to deliver them to you.

If you enjoy The Blood We Shed you’ll find more Christie military fiction on his author page.

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.