Ray Garton

Since the dawn of time, across almost every culture, there have been legends of shape-shifters. Men who turn into beasts and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. Of the shape-shifter tales, none invokes as much terror as the legend of the werewolf....

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....

Davey's on the down and out when he loses his girl, his job, and practically his sanity....

Fifteen-year-old Ryan Kettering has spent his young life in a series of mostly abusive foster homes. But his luck has changed....

In Night Life, nearly two decades after battling the vampires of the Midnight Club in New York City, Davey is a marked man....

While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely....

The Pritchard family is quite content in their home on Deerfield Avenue...until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street....

One rainy night, Gerry Brady discovers a beautiful woman with heartbreaking eyes hiding in his garage....

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....

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 does the biting....

Something very strange is happening in the coastal California town of Big Rock....

Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there's plenty of shade but no escape from the heat....

Karen Moffett and Gavin Keoph have investigated vampires in Los Angeles in Night Life and werewolves on the Northern California coast in Bestial, but this time they face something utterly baffling...and deadly....

For 16 years, Amy Grady has been married to a man who slaps, punches, and kicks her....

Medical research? Genetic experiments? No one knows exactly what goes on inside the sprawling BioGenTech building on the edge of town....

Horror master Garton delivers his usual ironic and macabre touches as the dead, who are, in fact, pretty ugly, make life a hell for the living....

Something is making people become violent and murderous...something they all have in common....

Myron Foote is a private investigator who has seen better days...but he drank them away....

Stuart will never forget the horrible thing Dr. Ferguson did to him when he was a boy....

Pieces of terror, pieces of suspense, pieces of darkness combine to create Pieces of Hate, master storyteller Ray Garton's short story collection....