The writing wasn't bad, he said, but he found the content too disturbing to finish reading the book. He thought the sex and violence in the novel were almost interchangeable. Bloch had replied with a letter, which my editor read to me over the phone.īloch said that he could not in good conscience endorse Seductions. but he quickly added that I shouldn't get too excited about it. When my editor told me shortly before the book was published, I was thrilled. Pinnacle had sent a review copy of Seductions to Robert Bloch, one of my all-time favorites. Lettered Edition: Set consisting of both a lettered state, bound in red cloth, without dustjacket and the numbered state (lettered) housed in a single slipcase.Description of the Subterranean Press edition:ĭustjacket art and design by Gail Cross. Limited: 500 signed numbered copies and sold out at the publisher Signed by Ray Garton and Richard LaymonĬopy #107 as pictured, three spots on the endpapers and a small tear to the front of the jackete, but this is the last copy we have! He took a moment to look me over, then said slowly, 'You're unwell.'Ī novel of sexual terror which predated such classics as Live Girls and The New Neighbor, this first hardcover edition features an original introduction by the author, and an afterword by horror legend Richard Laymon.

He frowned thoughtfully, tugging on that rubbery, basset-hound face of his, then began to nod. I could tell my name meant nothing to him, so I told him about Seductions, and about the letter he'd written. I approached him nervously, shook his hand and introduced myself. But I'm glad I didn't, because Robert Bloch was there. Upon entering the building, I nearly ran into a woman wearing a fur bikini and carrying a spear, and who weighed approximately four hundred pounds. I disturbed Robert Bloch!'Ī short time later, I attended my first convention, a gathering of fans and writers of horror, science fiction and fantasy. 'So what?' I said to my editor over the telephone. 'Yeah, but he's not going to give you a blurb. 'I disturbed Robert Bloch?' I asked in a tremulous whisper. He was worried it would take the genre one step closer to what he feared would no longer be horror, but a genre in which story and character and humanity took a back seat to pornographic violence.

Seductions by Ray Garton