![]() ![]() His characterization, though not trite, is never terribly compelling. Though Live Girls is a well written and competent novel, it does seem to lack something, and although interesting and entertaining, the book never really seems to take off. Davey soon finds himself entranced with one of the performers at Live Girls (the sleazy club), but only realizes the truth about her After Its Too LateŠ ![]() ![]() Into their clutches falls Davey Owen, a too-nice-for-his-own-good associate editor at a third rate Manhattan publishing house. A vampire novel set in New York City (for more on this theme see The Light at the End, in Part 5), Live Girls tells the story of a coterie of vampires who set up shop in both a sleazy peek show off Times Square and in a macabre, high-class nightclub. One of the splatterpunk authors to attract the most attention of late is Ray Garton, whose novel Live Girls has already garnered a cult following and a Stoker award nomination. (Text originally published in Nova Express, Volume 4 Issue 1, Summer 1988) PART FOUR: Splatterpunk Today: The Faces of the New Flesh - Ray Garton ![]()
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