He cut his teeth on television broadcasts of classic Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi films. View Gallery: Cover art from books by horror writer Ray Garton of ReddingĬlassic horror movies were more fun than fright for him, Garton said. “It scared the hell out of me, but it was a good scare.” “I was watching 'Dark Shadows' - until my mother put a stop to it,” he said, laughing. He started drawing fantasy picture books at age 4, inspired by television shows. “If you wrote fiction you were lying.”īut he was born to make up stories, he said. "Seventh-day Adventists didn’t approve of fiction” at the time. “I wanted for nothing, and there were plenty of good times,” he said, but he felt like his love for stories made him a misfit. was adopted into a religious family by Ray and Pat Garton. Garton’s name, and his pen names Arthur Darknell and Joseph Locke, grace the covers of a 68-book canon that includes Live Girls, In a Dark Place, The Loveliest Dead, Shackled, Ravenous, and novelizations of films and television series including Good Burger and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.īorn in 1962 in Redding, Ray Garton Jr. By 22 he was a published novelist. At 43, he won an award reserved for the horror genre’s most elite writers: The World Horror Convention Grand Master Award. He started composing horror stories before he learned to spell. The Anderson resident says he was born to write. Ray Garton's childhood was filled with werewolves and vampires.
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