Seductions by Ray Garton5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Sweet, Sweet Heart: The Horror Paperback Covers of. ![]() Seductions by Ray Garton (1984): Sweet Lovely Death.Horror Fiction Help VII: The Sinister Chauffeur.The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (1989): How Do.Schoolhouse by Lee Duigon (1988): Can't Even Think. ![]() The October Country by Ray Bradbury (1955): The Se.YA style and themes jostle around with pretty graphic sex-and-violence scenes - more toothy genitalia! - while shaky dialogue creaks everywhere. And while Garton makes several of his characters sympathetic and concerned for others, it's obvious this is an early novel by a writer who would grow more confident both with characterization and horror. uh, absorb their victims, which makes for some okay icky '80s horror imagery. Death becomes something like the ultimate orgasm as the creatures seduce, fuck, then somehow. Once again ancient mythical creatures the succubi and incubi are making trouble for regular folk in a small town populated by horny teenagers and their put-upon high school teachers. ![]() True, I like how the title Seductions is rendered in gore and the lady looks to be having a lovely time hanging there, but that's the best thing about the novel. I really had fun with Live Girls (1987), but Crucifax (1988) left me feeling vastly indifferent. Sadly it is pretty much a miss for any horror-fiction fan. Promising a tale of eroticized bloodshed and death, this first novel by proto-splatterpunk Ray Garton boasts a truly lurid and ludicrous cover image (thanks, Steve Kropp, whoever you are!). ![]()
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