Buried somewhere here is a moral about parental responsibility for wayward youth-but to search for it, protective clothing is advised.

Jim Jones, by slashing their own throats. Haskell goes to work, Mace manages to: seduce most of the town's teens, including Jeff's sister, into a perpetual drug/sex orgy maneuver Jeff and his sister into having sex together snuff out a few adults with the help of his pet critters and talk many of the teens into committing mass suicide, Ã la Rev. And Jeff's right for, as Mace later confesses, ''I am the weeds in your garden.I am the moldly bowl of goo.on the bottom shelf of your refrigerator.'' The white knight who sponges up this evil glop is Jeff's high-school guidance counselor but before J.R. Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton’s fourth novel, following not long after his awardnominated Live Girls, is regarded as a classic of the splatterpunk movement in horror fiction.

Mace claims he's just a guitarist/songwriter looking to form a new rock band but by the time Jeff notices that he's always surrounded by unearthly, rat-like critters, and has an extra-long tongue that can do nifty things like perform an abortion on a pregnant teen, Jeff's pretty sure that Mace isn't your run-of-the-mill rocker. And torment him Garton does, by conjuring up in Jeff's suburban L.A. In fact, he's just the sort of poor slob that a writer looking for a cheap target might want to torment. He's a nerd with crooked teeth, he lusts for his blond goddess of a big sister, Mallory, and, unbeknownst to him, his mom strips and makes dirty phone calls for a living. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Jeff Carr's teen-age life is one big mess. Buy Crucifax autumn 1st ed by Garton, Ray (ISBN: 9780913165300) from Amazons Book Store. For his first hard-cover (in which a heavy-metal Pied Piper seduces teens' souls), Garton continues to slather on the sleaze-but with far less pizazz. One of last year's more memorable horror novels was Garton's Live Girls, a stylishly sleazy paperback original about vampires operating out of Times Square porno parlors.

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