Title | : | Crucifax (Unabridged) |
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Author | : | Ray Garton |
Release | : | 2025-01-19 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Fiction |
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1 | Crucifax (Unabridged) | Ray Garton |
Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton's second novel, after his stunning debut with 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 re-make of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character, Crucifax, 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 let's not forget the rat-like things that do the piper's bidding... |