The New Neighbor (First Limited Edition, Signed)
GARTON, Ray. The New Neighbour. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2004.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 293 pp. First Cemetery Dance edition, first printing with full number line. Special limited edition of 1,000 unnumbered copies, signed by the author. Now out of print.
Ray Garton has been one of the most distinctive voices in American horror fiction since the mid-1980s, when Live Girls — his debut novel of erotic vampire horror set in the sex-industry underworld of New York — announced a writer with the courage to push the genre into genuinely uncomfortable territory. The New Neighbour belongs in the same tradition. First published in 1991 in an edition of 500 copies by Charnel House, at the considerable price of $150 per copy and with illustrations by the celebrated dark-fantasy photographer J.K. Potter, it had been effectively inaccessible to most readers for over a decade when Cemetery Dance reissued it in 2004. The novel imagines what happens when Lorelle Dupree moves into a quiet suburban street on Deerfield Avenue: she is beautiful, friendly, and seductive, and she takes a systematic interest in every member of the Pritchard family across the road — father, mother, teenage son, and daughter — each of whom begins to change in ways that are initially subtle and rapidly become catastrophic. What Lorelle wants is not what ordinary neighbours want. Garton's genius is to locate the horror in the texture of ordinary suburban life, where the mechanisms of neighbourliness and social conformity become the very instruments of corruption. The novel is shocking, graphic, and sustained in its intensity — a work that confirms Garton's place as one of the genre's most fearless practitioners. He received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award in 2006, a recognition of a career that spans more than forty books and demonstrates a consistent commitment to taking horror seriously as a literary form.
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The New Neighbor (First Limited Edition, Signed)
The New Neighbor (First Limited Edition, Signed)
GARTON, Ray. The New Neighbour. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2004.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 293 pp. First Cemetery Dance edition, first printing with full number line. Special limited edition of 1,000 unnumbered copies, signed by the author. Now out of print.
Ray Garton has been one of the most distinctive voices in American horror fiction since the mid-1980s, when Live Girls — his debut novel of erotic vampire horror set in the sex-industry underworld of New York — announced a writer with the courage to push the genre into genuinely uncomfortable territory. The New Neighbour belongs in the same tradition. First published in 1991 in an edition of 500 copies by Charnel House, at the considerable price of $150 per copy and with illustrations by the celebrated dark-fantasy photographer J.K. Potter, it had been effectively inaccessible to most readers for over a decade when Cemetery Dance reissued it in 2004. The novel imagines what happens when Lorelle Dupree moves into a quiet suburban street on Deerfield Avenue: she is beautiful, friendly, and seductive, and she takes a systematic interest in every member of the Pritchard family across the road — father, mother, teenage son, and daughter — each of whom begins to change in ways that are initially subtle and rapidly become catastrophic. What Lorelle wants is not what ordinary neighbours want. Garton's genius is to locate the horror in the texture of ordinary suburban life, where the mechanisms of neighbourliness and social conformity become the very instruments of corruption. The novel is shocking, graphic, and sustained in its intensity — a work that confirms Garton's place as one of the genre's most fearless practitioners. He received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award in 2006, a recognition of a career that spans more than forty books and demonstrates a consistent commitment to taking horror seriously as a literary form.
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This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000368
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GARTON, Ray. The New Neighbour. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2004.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 293 pp. First Cemetery Dance edition, first printing with full number line. Special limited edition of 1,000 unnumbered copies, signed by the author. Now out of print.
Ray Garton has been one of the most distinctive voices in American horror fiction since the mid-1980s, when Live Girls — his debut novel of erotic vampire horror set in the sex-industry underworld of New York — announced a writer with the courage to push the genre into genuinely uncomfortable territory. The New Neighbour belongs in the same tradition. First published in 1991 in an edition of 500 copies by Charnel House, at the considerable price of $150 per copy and with illustrations by the celebrated dark-fantasy photographer J.K. Potter, it had been effectively inaccessible to most readers for over a decade when Cemetery Dance reissued it in 2004. The novel imagines what happens when Lorelle Dupree moves into a quiet suburban street on Deerfield Avenue: she is beautiful, friendly, and seductive, and she takes a systematic interest in every member of the Pritchard family across the road — father, mother, teenage son, and daughter — each of whom begins to change in ways that are initially subtle and rapidly become catastrophic. What Lorelle wants is not what ordinary neighbours want. Garton's genius is to locate the horror in the texture of ordinary suburban life, where the mechanisms of neighbourliness and social conformity become the very instruments of corruption. The novel is shocking, graphic, and sustained in its intensity — a work that confirms Garton's place as one of the genre's most fearless practitioners. He received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award in 2006, a recognition of a career that spans more than forty books and demonstrates a consistent commitment to taking horror seriously as a literary form.
Fine. Presenting as new.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000368
