Ray Garton Books in Order

Desire turns ugly fast in this brutal early horror novel set around teenagers and bad impulses. Garton mixes sex, fear, and body horror into a fast, nasty shocker.

Something black and evil is loose, entering human bodies and driving people toward murder and madness. The horror starts in a hospital and spreads outward with sickening speed.

A boy realizes the adults around him are being replaced, and nobody believes him until it may be too late. It is a paranoid, pulpy invasion story with a classic B-movie engine.

Down on his luck and wandering old Times Square, Davey Owen follows the promise of easy pleasure into a vampire nightmare. What starts as escape turns into a fight for his body, his soul, and his life.

In the hot San Fernando Valley, a strange man named Mace draws restless teenagers into sex, drugs, and something far worse. What looks like rebellion becomes corruption and nightmare.

These novelizations follow Freddy Krueger as he turns sleep into a killing ground. The stories expand the dream logic, gore, and desperation of the films into one paperback nightmare.

An ancient warlock escapes into the modern world with apocalypse on his mind. The only man who can stop him is a witch hunter dragged forward in time to finish the fight.

This early collection brings together a novella and shorter pieces full of obsession, violence, and dark twists. It is a strong snapshot of Garton's short fiction voice.

Greed, betrayal, and danger tangle together in this dark thriller. What starts as opportunity becomes a trap as the cost of doing business turns violently personal.

Lenny Cochran is sure the new teacher is a psychopath, but nobody listens. Then people start dying, and being right stops feeling like any kind of victory.

Lonely trucker Bill Ketter picks up a desperate-looking prostitute to numb the pain of his failing life. By morning, he has lost a lot more than his loneliness.

A beautiful new woman moves into a quiet California neighborhood and seems eager to know everyone. The trouble is that what she wants from her neighbors is far more intimate and far more dangerous.

A charismatic channeler gathers followers who badly need hope, but the voice speaking through her is anything but benevolent. This cult horror story turns spiritual hunger into a deadly con.

A family moves into a former funeral home while already under enormous strain, then the haunting begins. The disturbances worsen until Ed and Lorraine Warren are drawn into the case.

A string of savage murders shakes a small town just as Jimmy Meredith falls for the mysterious new girl at school. His crush gets a lot more dangerous when her family's secret comes into view.

A reunion at an old wax museum should be harmless nostalgia for four former friends. Instead, the dark building becomes a trap, and someone inside is watching their every move.

A new video arcade called Hades opens in town, and suddenly kids start acting violently and bizarrely. What looks like a craze may actually be something much darker.

Students are being brutally murdered, and suspicion starts circling the newest teacher. As fear takes over the school, the survivors realize the threat may be standing right in front of them.

A teenage predator uses a party line to find girls, stalk them, and pull them into real danger. The setup is simple, ugly, and rooted in exactly the kind of everyday access that feels too easy.

Sabrina's search for the truth about her family continues as the danger around the Van Fleet house tightens. The secrets are no longer just unsettling, they are turning openly deadly.

After her parents die, Sabrina Van Fleet returns home and starts uncovering family secrets that feel older and darker than grief. Her uncle Viktor seems to know more than he should, and the house is full of wrongness.

Fresh out of jail, Butch wants revenge on the lawyer who put him there. He decides the cruelest way to get it is through her teenage daughter.

A terrifying new power turns love and trust into risk when an accidental thought can kill. As powerful interests close in, the people at the center of it have to decide whether to run or fight.

A collection of brutal stories about damaged people, cruel impulses, and the ugly things pressure brings to the surface. Even the shortest pieces land hard.

Dexter and Ed are just trying to keep Good Burger running, but the arrival of flashy rival Mondo Burger turns everything into comic chaos. It is a quick, goofy novelization of the teen movie.

When a pastor's young son is kidnapped, the Walker family is dragged into a horrifying world of abuse, fanaticism, and human cruelty. There is no supernatural escape hatch here, only escalating dread.

A seemingly simple trip online opens the door to obsession, manipulation, and real-world danger. Garton uses early internet anxiety to build a nasty, fast-moving horror thriller.

A little wishdust seems harmless until it escapes into Sabrina's school. Once everyone's wishes start coming true, the day spins wildly out of control.

Sabrina's latest magical problem drags Ben right into the middle of school life and secret witch business. Fixing it will take more than a quick spell and good intentions.

On graduation night, Preston Meyers sees one last chance to tell Amanda Beckett how he feels. Around them, one wild party sends old grudges, crushes, and insecurities crashing together.

A full week of magical mishaps keeps Sabrina busy in this multi-author tie-in. Crushes, school problems, and badly timed spells pile up until even small mistakes start causing very big trouble.

Alex and her friends get a close look at movie making, and it is a lot less glamorous than it sounds. Ray is exhausted, Louis is out of his depth, and a new friendship brings unexpected tension.

This Sabrina tie-in drops the gang into a playful fantasy rescue. Harvey has to become the hero when Sabrina falls into the hands of a nasty troll.

A search for answers pulls ordinary people into escalating danger. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that information can be just as deadly as ignorance.

Midterm stress and friendship strain around Sunnydale High curdle into violence as a demon resurrection plot takes shape. Buffy and the gang have to stop the ritual before Ravana rises.

A high-profile Hollywood murder case turns into a circus of greed, vanity, scandal, and legal trickery. Garton treats it as both thriller and savage show-business satire.

Andy is pulled back toward the people and place he would rather leave behind. What should feel like family instead turns into a deeply personal horror story about blood ties and homegrown dread.

Love and the undead make a messy combination in this darkly funny horror tale. Romance keeps stumbling forward long after common sense says it should be dead.

Stuart Mullond has never escaped the trauma of a childhood medical procedure. When the same doctor seems to return for Stuart's son, old terror becomes something horribly present and very sharp.

Years after the events of Live Girls, Davey Owen is still living with the consequences of becoming a vampire. In Los Angeles, old enemies close in as new investigators dig into rumors of the undead.

This collection gathers more of Garton's quick, mean, creature-friendly short fiction. The stories vary in shape, but they share the same taste for dread, gore, and ugly surprises.

Something small, fast, and hungry erupts into ordinary life and turns it into a siege. Creature terror and pure momentum do most of the work here, and they work hard.

Beauty and decay start looking far too much alike in this sleek piece of horror. Garton builds the book around obsession, appetite, and the awful pull of what should already be dead.

The story of Andy continues as home proves every bit as dangerous as memory suggested. Old connections, old wounds, and old horrors wait for him where he least wants to return.

A corpse walks out of the morgue, bodies start turning up half-eaten, and Sheriff Arlin Hurley learns the werewolf problem in Big Rock is bigger than one monster. Much bigger.

A young woman linked to snakes and spectacle becomes the center of a dangerous fixation. Curiosity turns to dread as the story slides toward something poisonous and strange.

These stories range from quiet unease to full splatter, but all of them carry a sharp edge. It is another solid collection for readers who want Garton in short bursts.

The werewolf outbreak in Big Rock is no longer isolated. As more of the town changes, humans edge toward becoming the minority and prey in their own community.

An alibi that should offer safety only pulls everyone deeper into murder and lies. Garton leans into bad decisions, mounting pressure, and hardboiled trouble.

Led by the title story of a foster boy, a locked basement, and a deeply unsettling child, this collection keeps its tension tight. The rest of the stories stay in that same uneasy register.

Grief, obsession, and hunger twist together in this dark horror novel. What begins as emotional damage opens the door to something much stranger and far more dangerous.

As people around town become unpredictably violent, Eli Dunbar realizes they all share the same terrifying link. A second storyline about a weary hit man drives the thriller toward collision.

Trouble spreads quickly through a trailer park where everybody knows too much and nobody is clean. It is crime fiction with grit, dark humor, and a mean little streak.

A private gathering turns sinister once the guests realize they were chosen for reasons nobody wants to explain. The story starts socially uncomfortable and ends somewhere much darker.

An old theater becomes the center of a haunting that feels tied to memory, performance, and unfinished business. Garton turns nostalgia for a fading place into something eerie and threatening.

Humboldt County is coming apart under wind, water, and violence. Every attempt to regain control reveals how far the infection has already spread.

Plans collapse almost as quickly as they are made. As the county sinks deeper into ruin, every bad choice multiplies the damage and narrows the chances of escape.

The storm has broken more than buildings. With fear and infection twisting people into something worse, survivors learn that the greatest danger may now be each other.

A catastrophic storm slams northern California just as a secret government experiment breaks loose. With infection, panic, and violence spreading fast, survival becomes a race against weather and bio-engineered madness.

The storm arrives, and so does the outbreak. Floods, isolation, and infected victims turn an emergency into a full-blown nightmare for everyone trapped in its path.

As a monster storm approaches the coast, a government lab loses control of a deadly experiment. The first cracks appear in a disaster that is about to get much worse.

In the final installment, the people left standing have to face the full scale of what has been unleashed. Survival means fighting through flood, infection, and a nightmare far worse than death.

One bitter man's war on Halloween turns deadly and deeply wrong. Garton mixes seasonal nostalgia, dark humor, and real menace into a nasty holiday tale.

Another short fiction collection from Garton, packed with dark humor, ugly shocks, and tales where one bad decision is always followed by another. It is lean, nasty, and easy to tear through.