num_pages: 387
description: Originally published in 1988 Ray Garton s fourth novel following not long after his award nominated Live Girls is regarded as a classic of the splatterpunk movement in horror fiction. Garton has a way with teenage boredom atmospheric small town isolation incest drug abuse and over the top violence and he has managed to create a modern remake of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character Mace (who wears a crucifax around his neck a crucifix with an axlike blade on it) appearing on the scene seducing mixed up kids with his siren song of pleasure power and indulgence all leading to a horrifically unsettling climax of death and destruction. And then there are the ratlike things that do the piper s bidding . . .
language: English
title: Crucifax
publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks