Slivers of Bone is the first full-length collection from Ray Garton in almost a decade! Featuring over 500 pages of original, brand new dark fiction (including two new novellas that weigh in at 100 pages of never-before-read fiction!), as well as classic and hard-to-find reprints, this will be a lengthy and stunning collection of horror and dark suspense!
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Garton (Sex and Violence in Hollywood) delivers his usual potent cocktail of extreme physical horror, if without the graphic sex and sly humor that redeemed 2003's The New Neighbor. The memory of a botched operation on his penis as a little boy still haunts Stuart Mullond ("Gotta make sure you can pee right, Stuart"). Worse, Dr. Furgeson, the urologist, has been reappearing mysteriously in Stuart's life, snapping those familiar scissors and threatening more surgery ("Snick-snick-snick"), even though he's a dying hulk in a nursing home. Stuart's relations with his former wife, his present companion and his young son have gone to hell, and no wonder with that scissors-toting doctor always around. Garton fans will relish a revolting Santa Claus, the removal of a heart from a living patient, dripping intestines and more.
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From Booklist
In 2006, the World Horror Convention proclaimed Garton a Grand Master for his long, prolific career in the genre. In his first collection of short fiction in nearly a decade, he offers more than 500 pages of out-of-print and heretofore unpublished work. Except in a few forays into the supernatural, Garton keeps his dark imaginings within the realm of possibility, though not without plenty of mayhem and gore. His protagonists range from ordinary middle-class couples and computer geeks to traumatized businessmen and addled authors driven to murderous impulses. In “The Guy Down the Street,” several suburban parents discover that a reclusive neighbor has been filming porn videos of their teenaged daughters; they plot his grisly demise. “411” recounts the fate of a wheelchair-bound information operator who overhears the commission of a double homicide and unwittingly leads the killer to her home. Garton has a knack for crisp dialogue and chillingly rendered description that works its way under the skin and uncomfortably remains there. A first-rate compendium of masterfully crafted horror. --Carl Hays
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting!,
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This review is from: Scissors (Hardcover)
Pretty good. After reading it I was actually suprised how well it sat with me. If I'd of known about the entire book before I read it I probably wouldn't of liked it. It had an odd twist in it that I wasn't really expecting. However, I didn't mind it. The twist is more about the main character, not really the plot of the book. I am really having a tough time explaining this without giving anything away! You'd have to read it to find out. This is my first book by Garton and it won't be the last!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Still waiting,
By GameFreak (Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scissors (Hardcover)
I read this in about 2 days. It does have an odd twist to it that seems too far-fetched to be a scary one. I guess I was expecting more face to face action with Stuart and the doctor, or more about Stuart's childhood. The character of the girl he lived with really had no depth, and the friendship between her and the ex wife was a bit odd. I think it would have been much scarier had there been more tales of bad things happening to Stuart growing up, not just the operation. That one incident is just not enough to make a person have a dual personality and powers of telepathy, or whatever that was. Where did Owl Man originally come from?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Rod Serling would have been proud.,
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This review is from: Scissors (Hardcover)
I kind of agree with reviewer "GameFreak," in that there
could have been more childhood abuses to account for Stuart's condition, and the "origin" of Owl Man could have been delved into, but all in all it's an interesting read that kept me flip- ping the pages. The story kind of reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, including the twist ending, which wasn't scary but made you think "Hmmmmm." It also might make you expect Rod Serling to step out and utter a creepy epilogue.
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