-
Crucifax
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Audible Premium Plus
$14.95 a month
Buy for $24.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Lot Lizards
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ray Sizemore
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A lot lizard is a female hooker who works a highway truck stop as her territory. When trucker Bill Ketter looks for a little relaxation and release, he discovers, too late, that he has bitten off more than he can chew. In fact, his lot lizard is the one that does the biting. She is a vampire, one of a number who move from one truck stop to the next under the watchful and vicious eyes of the repulsive Carsey Brothers. Against his will, Bill becomes one of the undead.
-
-
Pretty entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 05-09-18
By: Ray Garton
-
Trailer Park Noir
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there's plenty of shade but no escape from the heat. Marcus Reznick watched the love of his life blow her brains out and then dove to the bottom of a bottle of vodka. Now he's living in Riverside Mobile Home Park and trying to pull his life together...until a powerful temptation comes his way. Steve Regent is an Internet pornographer who has moved to Riverside Mobile Home Park to work on a new Web site - Trailer Park Girls. He's looking for beautiful women...but instead, he finds something very ugly.
-
-
A Garton classic twisted trailer park romp
- By Bill on 08-28-15
By: Ray Garton
-
Dark Channel
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
People from across the country and around the globe are coming to the mountain retreat of Hester Thorne, the enthralling leader of the Universal Enlightened Alliance. They are coming to hear the comforting wisdom and messages of peace offered by Orrin, the centuries-old entity that Hester channels. They are coming to donate their money and time to Hester, the Alliance and Orrin. And some are chosen to make a more significant contribution...a greater sacrifice.
-
-
Excellent first novel and a great dark tale
- By Kent Knopp-Schwyn on 07-25-14
By: Ray Garton
-
Shackled
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Children disappear all the time. It's in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them? While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely...a story about something so unspeakable, he doesn't know if anyone will believe it...a story that pulls him down into the depths of evil and depravity and threatens his very life.
-
-
Disappointed
- By Dannielle on 04-07-13
By: Ray Garton
-
The New Neighbor
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ginger Beechwood
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Pritchard family is quite content in their home on Deerfield Avenue...until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street. The new neighbor is astonishingly beautiful...friendly...and seductive. Each member of the Pritchard family surrenders to her advances and Lorelle's influence changes them in shocking ways. Soon everyone on Deerfield is changing. And then the killings start. The new neighbor is not interested in borrowing a cup of sugar or using your weed-whacker. She's more interested in your soul.
-
-
Enjoyed it
- By Rowland on 10-30-19
By: Ray Garton
-
Ravenous
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Michael Agostini
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Emily Crane's car breaks down on a dark, lonely road at night, she is attacked and raped by a man she kills in self-defense. That night, the dead rapist walks out of the morgue. Later, Emily begins to experience strange cravings and her body undergoes terrifying changes. When brutal killings leave victims partially eaten in the northern California coastal town of Big Rock, Sheriff Arlin Hurley scoffs at the talk of werewolves...until a tuft of wolf's fur is found on a victim.
-
-
A Fresh take on the Werewolf Myth
- By Tracey on 03-10-13
By: Ray Garton
-
Lot Lizards
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ray Sizemore
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A lot lizard is a female hooker who works a highway truck stop as her territory. When trucker Bill Ketter looks for a little relaxation and release, he discovers, too late, that he has bitten off more than he can chew. In fact, his lot lizard is the one that does the biting. She is a vampire, one of a number who move from one truck stop to the next under the watchful and vicious eyes of the repulsive Carsey Brothers. Against his will, Bill becomes one of the undead.
-
-
Pretty entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 05-09-18
By: Ray Garton
-
Trailer Park Noir
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there's plenty of shade but no escape from the heat. Marcus Reznick watched the love of his life blow her brains out and then dove to the bottom of a bottle of vodka. Now he's living in Riverside Mobile Home Park and trying to pull his life together...until a powerful temptation comes his way. Steve Regent is an Internet pornographer who has moved to Riverside Mobile Home Park to work on a new Web site - Trailer Park Girls. He's looking for beautiful women...but instead, he finds something very ugly.
-
-
A Garton classic twisted trailer park romp
- By Bill on 08-28-15
By: Ray Garton
-
Dark Channel
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
People from across the country and around the globe are coming to the mountain retreat of Hester Thorne, the enthralling leader of the Universal Enlightened Alliance. They are coming to hear the comforting wisdom and messages of peace offered by Orrin, the centuries-old entity that Hester channels. They are coming to donate their money and time to Hester, the Alliance and Orrin. And some are chosen to make a more significant contribution...a greater sacrifice.
-
-
Excellent first novel and a great dark tale
- By Kent Knopp-Schwyn on 07-25-14
By: Ray Garton
-
Shackled
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Children disappear all the time. It's in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them? While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely...a story about something so unspeakable, he doesn't know if anyone will believe it...a story that pulls him down into the depths of evil and depravity and threatens his very life.
-
-
Disappointed
- By Dannielle on 04-07-13
By: Ray Garton
-
The New Neighbor
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Ginger Beechwood
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Pritchard family is quite content in their home on Deerfield Avenue...until Lorelle Dupree moves in across the street. The new neighbor is astonishingly beautiful...friendly...and seductive. Each member of the Pritchard family surrenders to her advances and Lorelle's influence changes them in shocking ways. Soon everyone on Deerfield is changing. And then the killings start. The new neighbor is not interested in borrowing a cup of sugar or using your weed-whacker. She's more interested in your soul.
-
-
Enjoyed it
- By Rowland on 10-30-19
By: Ray Garton
-
Ravenous
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Michael Agostini
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Emily Crane's car breaks down on a dark, lonely road at night, she is attacked and raped by a man she kills in self-defense. That night, the dead rapist walks out of the morgue. Later, Emily begins to experience strange cravings and her body undergoes terrifying changes. When brutal killings leave victims partially eaten in the northern California coastal town of Big Rock, Sheriff Arlin Hurley scoffs at the talk of werewolves...until a tuft of wolf's fur is found on a victim.
-
-
A Fresh take on the Werewolf Myth
- By Tracey on 03-10-13
By: Ray Garton
-
The Loveliest Dead
- By: Ray Garton
- Narrated by: Brian Eslick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Horror master Garton delivers his usual ironic and macabre touches as the dead, who are, in fact, pretty ugly, make life a hell for the living. Following a sequence of increasingly dire personal tragedies, culminating in the unexplained death of their four-year-old son, Josh, Jenna and David Kella plan to make a new start of their lives on the old family homestead they've inherited just outside Eureka, Calif., with their surviving son, Miles. What they discover, though, is a nightmare.
-
-
I feel bad, but here's the scoop.
- By Laura on 04-11-13
By: Ray Garton
-
Gone to See the River Man
- By: Kristopher Triana
- Narrated by: Dani George
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers. Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than 20 women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it. She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
-
-
Suspenseful Thriller Full of Shocking Reveals
- By Tod M. Clark on 11-20-20
-
Castaways
- By: Brian Keene
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
They came to the deserted island to compete on a popular reality television show. Each one hoped to be the last to leave. Now they're just hoping to stay alive, because the island isn't deserted after all. Contestants are disappearing, but they aren't being eliminated by the game. They're being taken by the monstrous, half-human creatures that live deep in the jungle. The men will be slaughtered. The women will be kept alive as captives. Night is falling, the creatures are coming, and rescue is so far away....
-
-
Awesome story!
- By D. Sturgeon on 03-13-20
By: Brian Keene
-
Don’t Move
- By: Darren Wearmouth, James S. Murray
- Narrated by: James S. Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Megan Forrester has barely survived the unthinkable. Six months ago, she witnessed a horrific accident that killed her husband and son. Now, Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a local church group’s annual camping trip. But the church group members - riddled with dark secrets of their own - make a catastrophic navigational mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon in the West Virginian national forest. They quickly realize why this side of the canyon has never been surveyed by mankind: it’s home to a terrifying prehistoric arachnid....
-
-
Bring Your UV Lights!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-23-20
By: Darren Wearmouth, and others
-
Hell House
- By: Richard Matheson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For over 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.
But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
-
-
Got scary?
- By Lesley on 06-17-08
By: Richard Matheson
-
The Damnation Game
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
-
-
Damned If You Do
- By Wag The Fox on 04-05-14
By: Clive Barker
-
The Reddening
- By: Adam Nevill
- Narrated by: Conner Goff
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artifacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. Helene, a disillusioned lone parent, lost her brother, Lincoln, six years ago. Disturbing subterranean noises he recorded prior to vanishing, draw her to Brickburgh's caves. A site where early humans butchered each other across 60,000 years. Upon the walls, images of their nameless gods remain.
-
-
Wrong Narrator
- By Jamie on 01-24-20
By: Adam Nevill
-
Carrion Comfort
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Mel Foster, Laural Merlington
- Length: 39 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves. Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.
-
-
Idk who needs to see this, but TRIGGER WARNING
- By The Altinutt on 11-05-19
By: Dan Simmons
-
The Rib from Which I Remake the World
- By: Ed Kurtz
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a small, rural Arkansas town in the midst of World War II, hotel house detective George "Jojo" Walker wearily maintains the status quo in the wake of personal devastation. That status quo is disrupted when a hygiene picture roadshow rolls into town with a controversial program on display and curious motives in mind. What begins with a gruesome and impossible murder soon spirals into hallucinatory waking nightmares for Jojo - nightmares that converge with his reality and dredge up his painful, secret past.
By: Ed Kurtz
-
Strangers
- By: Michaelbrent Collings
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. The doors are locked, the windows are barred. There's no way out. A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences. So what do you do? Do you run? Do you hide? Or do you die?
-
-
Taut, quick, it carried me away.
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-14
-
Autumn Bleeds into Winter
- By: Jeff Strand
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Somebody has been abducting children in Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the victims was 14-year-old Curtis Black's best friend, Todd. Curtis saw it happen. He knows exactly who did it. But he can't prove that it was his neighbor, Gerald Martin. The authorities find no evidence of the crime. There's nothing they can do. So he's going to confront Mr. Martin himself. And this is just the beginning of the terrifying story.
-
-
Jeff Strand will have you laughing the whole time!
- By The Book Dad on 12-01-20
By: Jeff Strand
-
High Crime Area
- Tales of Darkness and Dread
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic - she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer" a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers.
-
-
Dark, Disturbing, Thought provoking.
- By Matthew S. Hill on 03-18-17
Publisher's Summary
Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton's second novel, after his stunning debut with 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 re-make of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character, Crucifax, 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 let's not forget the rat-like things that do the piper's bidding...
More from the same
What listeners say about Crucifax
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mark Notarian
- 03-27-14
Seth Micheal Donsky is THE WORST!
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
The Deaf. As long as Seth Michael Donsky is connected with this work the best way to enjoy it is not to hear it at all!
What did you like best about this story?
The Book. CRUCIFAX is cutting hooror and Ray Garton goes boldly where no one else does In to the darkest regions of the supernatural!
What didn’t you like about Seth Michael Donsky’s performance?
His voice was creepy and annoying. His acting range seemed to be measured somewhere between awful and non existant. He is the vocal equivalent of nails on a chalkboard
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Crucifax?
Everything featuring Seth Michael Donsky then start over with an actor with vocal range and some acting ability
Any additional comments?
I read CRUCIFAX about ten years ago I enjoyed the book its was raw edge Horror, disturbing but it drew you in. However I could not get through the Audio Book Seth Micheal Donsky has the single most annoying voice I have ever heard after 9 chapters I could take no more. It is sad that someone like this no talent loser gets work and so many talented actors don't.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Review Fanatic
- 05-16-13
Pleasantly Surprised
Any additional comments?
I purchased Crucifax just because I wanted to try something different and I had a credit to spare. I usually don't purchase audiobooks that have no reviews, but my research online encouraged me to take a chance on this audiobook.
The Good:
Originally published in 1988 this story did have a bit of a "dated" feel to it BUT I loved it. I was a kid in the 80's (sorry my age is showing) and a few parts of the story made me think of my brother's stories of his 80's high school years. I did occasionally get that "ripped from the headlines" feel meaning parts of the story sensationalized what adults and the media believe teens will do when influenced by the "wrong" things.
The bulk of the story followed teenage siblings who are dealing with their parents divorce, usual teen stress, and (prepare yourself) incest fantasies. The mother of the main characters is also featured as she struggles to support herself and two teenagers with a variety of less than savory jobs. Throughout the book the teens and their peers are seduced by a mysterious man who seems determined to influence as many teenagers as possible.
The Bad:
The narrator is absolutely horrible. I am completely serious. This narrator was so bad I almost gave up on listening to a story that I ended up really enjoying. His attempt to portray female characters came across as annoying most of the time and ludicrous all of the time. It was really, embarrassingly, bad.
In a perfect world a male narrator should be able to handle male characters just fine. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world. Some of this male characters sounded like whiny fools making it hard to truly listen to the story and get lost in it. Other male characters just sounded ridiculous.
In the end I gave this audiobook a 3 star rating because I was able to power through the audiobook and was happy that I did. The story is a good one even though it is a bit dated and has the after school special feel. If it was rerecorded with a better narrator I think this would be an amazing listen and a solid 4 star listen losing only one star because of the (in my opinion) flaws in the story.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 09-14-20
One of the worst narrators ever
I'm giving the story a 3 because it's possible I would have enjoyed it more if the narrator weren't so awful.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 05-24-14
Would have been better with a different narrator
First of all I have to admit to being a huge fan of Ray Garton's work (Live Girls, The New Neighbor, Methods of Madness etc are all great reads/listens) and even though I enjoyed this story the narration is very average to say the least.
Seth Michael Donsky's reading leaves a lot to be desired but I believe it is because he is trying to hard, his rendition of some of the characters especially Reverend Bainbridge is simply awful and the female characters almost sound comical. Not wishing to sound too harsh as in parts the reading is OK but I think with someone else reading this it would have been a much better experience.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jonathan Mills
- 09-23-13
Interesting story crippled by terrible narration.
I listened to Ray Garton's début novel, Live Girls recently, and liked it enough to give his second novel a try. I quite enjoyed the story, but the narration is terrible - incredibly hammy caricatured dialogue really makes it hard to relate to the various characters. If you're considering this audiobook, please try the free sample first, it'll give you more of an idea as to whether or not you can stomach the narration. I think it's a shame, it really impacted my enjoyment of an otherwise interesting story.