Bill Ketter was looking for a little fun while relaxing after a long day driving the lonely roads. He partakes in the hiring of a lot lizard at the truck stop he is parked in. Unfortunately for him, this lot lizard is about to change his life with one quick bite. Now turned into one of the undead, he follows his brethren on to the next truck stop for some bloody morsels. Bill runs into his ex-wife and children when the chaos begins. Bill has to battle his own brothers and sisters of the night to...

this review says it better than I can:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...My take? If you like Ray Garton, you'll love this book. This is horror, not y our typical paranormal romancy vampires so popular today.

Vampire hookers at a truck stop. Can't go wrong with that.

Next to Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, no one does vampires like Ray, and he's created another masterpiece. The way he makes supernatural stories personal is uncanny, just the touch of sick realism they need.

For years I've had this on my bookshelf and for some reason didn't get down to reading it until a few weeks ago. Ordinarily I'm not fond of vampire books but this was a thrill ride. Don't think Dracula here - think "30 Days of Night". The vampires in this book are vicious, horrific,scary creatures and the story telling is gritty, fast paced and thrilling. This is a vampire novel and a survival novel with characters that you care about. A quick but well worth it read if you like your horror a lit...

TALES FROM THE CRYPT...No spoilers:This little story was some campy fun... Loosely, this is an original tale where the vampires are hookers working a truck stop in a snowstorm...They travel from stop to stop in two 18 wheelers carrying coffins and their queen...The girls knock on the truck's sleeper window asking the trucker if he would like a little company for the night......Then they suck the guy's... blood...That's really about it as far as plot goes. The rest of the story sees the MANY char...

Decent enough vampire tale, not much more to it than that...

I guess I still like vampire stories.In this one, several subplots feed the main story arc in a well thought out night of blood sucking fun-packed excitement.You've got a victim, Bill Ketter, a trucker who's been turned and wants to stop them.The them of which I speak are the lot lizards, young prostitutes who knock on the cabs of resting truckers looking to provide some—ahem—company.There's a house within sight of the truckstop occupied by the sick daughter of one of the waitresses. Watching he...

A quick, fast and fun read by Garton. Our main protagonist, Bill, drives a truck and at the start of the novel, he decides that after months of being estranged from his wife he could use a little company and finds a 'lot lizard' at truck stop. Lot lizards are prostitutes who work the 'truck trade', hanging out at truck stops looking for Johns, but Bill's little number gives him more than he bargained for, turning him into a vampire after sucking his blood. The 'queen' vampire resides in the back...

A short but interesting read. Exciting and quick paced with some human emotion mixed in.

Here is another fine example of how the shameful lack of male willpower and moral judgment can lead to trouble.... Feeling lonely (and "in the mood") after his wife leaves home with their children, trucker Bill Ketter opens his driver's side door to a gaunt-looking young girl asking if he would like some company. Big mistake, Billy. Bill contracts something different from the typical STDs. He's developed an aversion to sunlight and an appetite for...you guessed it, blood. Bill is now a member...

Outstanding book, great trucker reading

Our MC Bill is depressed at his wife having left him again because of his truck driving job. It appears this time that she isn't coming back so Bill decides to take advantage of the hookers that hang around truck stops. In this case, the hooker is an underfed vampire who manages to turn him by accident while feeding from him, as well as robbing him. Bill decides to follow the truck that she gets into to try and try to get some answers. I didn't really get far with this one.There was nothing real...

I'm not really a vampire guy, sparkly or otherwise. It takes a special kind of vampire book to appeal to me. Ray Garton's LOT LIZARDS is that kind of vampire book. It's a bit out of left field. It's not the tired old trope and yet it stays true to the creature in its own way. LOT LIZARDS is a "classic" 90's era horror book.This is the first time I've read Ray Garton. I'm glad I took the time to give myself the experience. He represents another in a far-too-long list of 90's era horror I missed o...

I really liked this book. I like Ray Garton in general. I remember when I finally started reading "other horror" (i.e., not Stephen King, Koontz, etc), I read a book "The Loveliest Dead" which really raised the bar on how cool a horror book could be. As with other Ray Garton books, this may not be earth shattering or ground breaking but it's fun and well worth the read. I suspect I'll eventually go through his entire catalogue.Aside: now that I'm into e-Reading, there's a whole bunch of books th...

This was my first Ray Garton novel. It's a fast paced story featuring it's share of violence gore, and even a bit of sex. The story centres around a truck stop diner that has been overrun with vampires. Overall a fun quick read with a solid finale.

It's Okay, Some brain farts along the way and some decent fun, That's about it.2.5 lizard lips outta 5

Reading Ray Garton novels is a lot like reading literary movies that are just plain fun. Lot Lizards is no different. As the description states, lot lizards are prostitutes that haunt truck stops, truckers being their target ... um ... market. We begin the story with Bill, a trucker who's stopped for the night at a truck stop and is feeling a little frisky. He hopes to hear the knock on his driver's side door, indicating the solicitation of a lizard. One comes, but Bill is taken by how skinny an...

The author seems to have turned in a second draft of an unfinished novel and someone published it. Everything moves way to fast and all plot threads get tied up in nice neat unrealistic bows. Even the scenes that are supposed to be scary are not very. It could make an OK B movie in the hands of a decent screenwriter & director, but this SK wannabe author needs to work a lot harder next time.

Ever since seeing Ridley Scott's Alien as a kid, one of my favorite horror setups has been "a bunch of people trapped or cut off in some way, and hunted by some creature or supernatural something." Garton, who had already penned another classic vampire novel a few years earlier (Live Girls), gets bonus points here for putting a bunch of supernatural somethings together with the unsuspecting humans.Picture one of those large highway truck stops like Love's, which are almost like mini Walmarts ins...