Talk:Ray Garton

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Wheelock, Patrick; Patton, Brian (2009-07-15), "Wednesday, July 15", The Pat and Brian Show, archived from the original on 2019-01-04
Seed, David. "Science Fiction". Yearbook of English Studies. 37 (2). Modern Humanities Research Association. ISSN 0306-2473.
Morgan, Pauline (January 2007). "Ray Garton". Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works. Salem Press.
"'Conjuring' Up the Whole Story". National Catholic Reporter. Vol. 49, no. 22. 2013-08-16. ISSN 0027-8939.
Mulkerrins, Jane (2013-07-14). "Detective in Spectres". The Sunday Telegraph. ISSN 9976-1874. OCLC 436617202.

Religious Hatred?[edit]

Ray Garton is appearing at a San Francisco bookstore, and their newsletter was somewhat bemused to discover they might be the subject of protests due to the nature of his writing. See here for the organization's bulletin -- it states that:

Ray Garton is a bitter former Seventh-day Adventist who has enhanced his career by telling vicious lies about the church and its co-founder Ellen G. White. He has filled his novel BESTIAL with more of those lies, even depicting Ellen White (1827 - 1915) in a pornographic scene of sexuality that should be bitterly offensive to Christians everywhere.

Just thought those following him might be curious.--MrRedwood (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone who has read Garton's work knows that anti-religious sentiment sometimes can be found there. In fact, one of his most disturbing stories was about Pedophilia at the hands of a SDA minister and this was published decades before the Catholic Sex Abuse scandal. It's merely one part of his fictional worldview and not the sum total of it. If someone wants to write a small NPOV paragraph, perhaps quoting interviews with him, about how his experiences as an Ex-SDA informs his work, then have it. Just don't call it religious hatred.

I could see some literary critics labeling that aspect of his work as slightly strident but not much beyond that. Other writers are far more direct in their actual hatred of religion, heck, check out some of the purile things that spew from Richard Dawkins' mouth when he gets riled up. it doesn't make him a bad writer, merely one who gets a tad overwrought at times. I don't see Garton's writing in the same vein. He's writing FICTION and some of his characters have had negative experiences with a certain faith. While he may be using his personal experiences as fodder, that's a time honored tradition in literature.LiPollis (talk) 19:22, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In A Dark Place[edit]

I was just watching this "documentary" and thought I'd throw this out there about the book; watch from just shy of the thirty minute mark. Some might find it interesting. Editors may or may not want to include this information on this actual wiki page. Mari Adkins 21:16, 4 July 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MariAdkins (talk • contribs)

Without better provenance than a pseudonymous YouTube uploader, it doesn't meet the threshold for Wikipedia:Reliable sources. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 01:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

red links[edit]

On 18 January 2024 at 18:10 UTC, Mika1h (talk · contribs) removed all red links from the prose of the article—saying only -red links. The editing guideline at Wikipedia:Red link says Only remove red links if you are certain that Wikipedia should not have an article on that subject. Might anybody else know why Dark Harvest (publisher), Macdonald (publisher), New Blood (magazine), Midnight Graffiti, The Horror Show (magazine), and Phantasm Press are all unequivocally unwarranting of articles (or even mentions in larger articles to which a redirect could be established)? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]