5/28/2023 0 Comments Seductions by Ray Garton![]() ![]() These critters more often than not turn up in the guises of hot chicks, and consume their prey via large fang-lined vaginas. ![]() ![]() The instigators of the madness are a band of shape-shifting succubi who live to seduce and devour humans, in this case the residents of a small Northern California town. Then there’s Donald, a thirtyish schoolteacher who happens to be the book’s only truly virtuous character (being a dude, the fact that he commits adultery with Freddie is forgivable). There’s the teenaged Leslie, who’s slutty and aloof Kyle, who’s nerdy and overweight and Freddie, a telepathically endowed woman who’s nice but makes the mistake of screwing around with the married hero. As with most eighties splatter flicks, SEDUCTIONS contains an Old Testament sense of morality visited upon characters who behave badly, and in most cases exist only to be picked off. This being a first novel, allowances will have to be made for the overly deliberate set-up, perfunctory characterizations and simplistic splatter movie-ish narrative. This was the first novel by Ray Garton, and a book that greatly upset one of its first readers, the late Robert Bloch-who allegedly informed the young Garton that “you’re unwell.” SEDUCTIONS was certainly like nothing else being published back in 1984 in its unapologetic mix of eroticism and violence, with stunningly gruesome imagery that nowadays seems right out of the Japanese WICKED CITY anime and series of novels. ![]()
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