Crucifax
| By: | Ray Garton |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781497624405 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781497624399 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton?s fourth novel, following not long after his award?nominated?Live Girls, is regarded as a classic of the ?splatterpunk? movement in horror fiction. Garton has a way with teenage boredom, atmospheric small?town isolation, incest, drug abuse, and over?the?top violence and he has managed to create a modern remake of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character, Mace (who wears a ?crucifax? around his neck?a crucifix with an axlike blade on it) appearing on the scene, seducing mixed?up kids with his siren song of pleasure, power, and indulgence, all leading to a horrifically unsettling climax of death and destruction. And then there are the ratlike things that do the piper?s bidding . . .?