Graven Images

"Rednecks, pick-up truck sex, trailer-park tramps, and Jerry Springer. These elements, if you ask me, have all the makings of MY kind of story. And that's what we get with this bizarre, brutal, taboo-crossing novella. But we also get a whole lot more. We get a sharply hewn tale of human tragedy and human misery, religious madness, and characters cut into the page so deftly, you can smell them…. All that and there are even some funny parts. The author is a guy who, years ago, brought us one of the best vampire novels written in modern times (Less Than Human). Mr. Gary Raisor. --Edward Lee, author of The Bighead, Incubi, and The Stickmen. From his introduction of Graven Images

From the Publisher

"Graven Images" is the first in a four-part horror novella series titled "Sinister Purposes." This unique series takes place in Eden, Georgia, a fictitious and sinister side of the state, a place where things aren't always what they seem. The following installments will be issued through out the year 2001: "The Right Thing", "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep", and "Hell Train."

From the Inside Flap

Also Available by Gary Raisor from Overlook Connection Press: LESS THAN HUMAN A tale of blood and vampirism with Steven and Earle. Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. Hardcover 0-9633397-0-2 $29.95 Limited-Signed0-9633397-1-0 $45.00

About the Author

Gary Raisor’s first novel, Less Than Human, was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for Best First Novel. Gary Raisor has had over thrity short stories and novellas published in Cemetary Dance, Night Cry, and many other magazines, as well as in the antholgoies Razored Saddles, and Dead End: City Limits. He has also edited an anthology titled Obsessions which featured two stories nominated by the HWA, one of which won for Best Short Story. Graven Images is his ode to daytime television and organized religion, which if you think about it, are very similar in nature.

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