All 29 The Horror of Ray Garton Books In Order at Book DNA

1
Live Girls

Seeking consolation after losing his job and his girlfriend, Davey Owen enters a small, dark club in the seedy precincts of the city and finds a world of uncontrollable ecstasy and unbelievable horror inhabited by savagely seductive vampires

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2
Bestial

When werewolves take over the town of Big Rock in California, tearing apart its residents, the remaining humans must band together to fight back. Original.

3
Vortex

4
Biofire

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…

5
Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

Book cover of Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

Previously released as a special limited edition for Cemetery Dance Collectors Club members and long out-of-print, this collection features Ray Garton's most controversial religious horror stories that are sure to get him in trouble with someone. Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth is too over-the-top for a mass market publisher, but…

6
Crawlers

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…

7
The Folks

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,…

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8
No Place Like Home

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9
Pieces of Hate

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…

10
'Nids

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…

11
The Girl in the Basement

A terrifying tale from a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author who "has consistently created some of the best horror ever set to print" (Cemetery Dance).

Foster care is like Russian roulette, says fifteen-year-old Ryan Kettering, who's spent most of his young life in largely abusive homes. Sometimes the hammer clicks and…

12
Ravenous

When the residents of the coastal California town of Big Rock are plagued by a curse that is spread through sex, Sheriff Arlin Hurley and his men must stop the growing terror and discover that many of the old werewolf legends are just myths--the reality is far worse. Original.

13
Shackled

14
Dark Channel

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…

15
Darklings

The emergency room is no stranger to death, but not like this. Normally, a death serves as a final ending. Now, as a parasite straight out of hell slithers from the body of a serial killer, death has only begun its terrifying, grisly rampage through the small hospital and town.…

16
Scissors

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…

17
The New Neighbor

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…

18
Meds

One hot summer day, a man in a business suit running wildly down a busy street attacks a woman and her toddler, neither of whom have ever seen him before. ... As he waits in his pickup truck for his wife to finish shopping, a man decides to take the…

19
Lot Lizards

A "lot lizard" is a female hooker who works a highway truck stop as her territory. When trucker Bill Ketter looks for a little relaxation and release, he discovers, too late, that he has bitten off more than he can chew. In fact, his lot lizard is the one that…

20
Night Life

The long-awaited follow-up to the vampire classic Live Girls, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated "horror maestro" (Publishers Weekly).

Night Life, a brilliant sequel to the classic novel of vampires reimagined Live Girls.

When Ray Garton's Live Girls was published in 1987, it changed the face of vampire fiction. The gritty,…

21
Methods of Madness

Stories about the hidden, twisted sides of human nature include "Fat," "Active Member," "Something Kinky," "Sinema," "Shock Radio," and "Dr. Krusadian's Method"

22
The Loveliest Dead

In this "shocker from [a] horror maestro," a grieving family's inheritance stirs the past and brings out the dead (Publishers Weekly).

After the sudden death of their youngest child, Josh, Jenna and David Kellar need a fresh and healing new start. When Jenna is bequeathed her estranged father's home in…

23
Murder Was My Alibi

"She walked into my office smelling like a meadow of flowers and looking like one long night of trouble."

Myron Foote is a private detective on the wrong side of the tracks who does not like to be on the receiving end of violence but is sometimes a little too…

24
Seductions

The first hardcover edition of the author's first novel of sexual terror, precursor to such classics as Live Girls, Crucifax Autumn, and The New Neighbor. The SubPress edition of Seductions features a new exclusive introduction by the author -- in which he details how he offended the legendary Robert Bloch…

25
Sex and Violence in Hollywood

Book cover of Sex and Violence in Hollywood

Subterranean Press is proud to present the breakout thriller by the master of horror. Sex and Violence in Hollywood will take its place on the shelf next to other Garton classics like Live Girls and The New Neighbor. This is truly Ray's masterpiece.

The Subterranean Press edition of Sex and…

26
Trade Secrets

Stated First Edition. First trade edition bound in blue cloth. Fine in fine dj.

27
Trailer Park Noir

Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there's 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…

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Loveless

29
No Shelter

29 The Horror of Ray Garton books in order

1 Live Girls

2 Bestial

3 Vortex

4 Biofire

5 Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

6 Crawlers

7 The Folks

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8 No Place Like Home

9 Pieces of Hate

10 'Nids

11 The Girl in the Basement

12 Ravenous

13 Shackled

14 Dark Channel

15 Darklings

16 Scissors

17 The New Neighbor

18 Meds

19 Lot Lizards

20 Night Life

21 Methods of Madness

22 The Loveliest Dead

23 Murder Was My Alibi

24 Seductions

25 Sex and Violence in Hollywood

26 Trade Secrets

27 Trailer Park Noir

28 Loveless

29 No Shelter