{"product_id":"the-new-neighbor-first-limited-edition-signed","title":"The New Neighbor (First Limited Edition, Signed)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGARTON, Ray.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe New Neighbour.\u003c\/em\u003e Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 293 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRay Garton has been one of the most distinctive voices in American horror fiction since the mid-1980s, when \u003cem\u003eLive Girls\u003c\/em\u003e — 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. \u003cem\u003eThe New Neighbour\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000368\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray Garton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48844767265011,"sku":"1110002940491","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8b80743b-6e13-4d59-ab47-ba2a80ec7c8d.png?v=1776404535","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-new-neighbor-first-limited-edition-signed","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}