Slayer

A wealthy serial killer is preying on conservative Gay men, and keeps on eluding the police who are hunting for him.

"So here I am, an immigrant doing a job Americans were not willing to do, cleaning out their deplorable brethren. I'm a serial killer. At least that's what the police label me. I live to eat and kill. As Ru Paul says, everything else is drag," says the narrator of this book—thirtyish, Gay, handsome, educated, rich, and a genius, who perfected his skills in Sicily. Now settled in Brooklyn Heights, he hunts the internet for his prey, ultra-conservative homosexuals. A police lieutenant heads the task force to capture him. She enlists a Gay reporter's assistance through his lover—her college-professor brother. The Slayer demonically evades detection, inserting himself into her Filipino–Greek family of three generations—a family soon to be torn apart by one of their own. Moral ambiguity, lust, incest, sadism, murder, revenge, addiction, bigotry, and unnatural malevolence savage their lives. But love, generosity, and a monster come to the rescue.

When Ron Madson is not writing horror/fantasy/spiritual fiction, he and his husband are avid travelers, and collectors of Native American pottery, jewelry, and fetishes. For thirty-three years Ron was an elementary school art teacher, staff developer, and working artist. In the late 1980s he became an advocate for LGBTQ youth and teachers—the first openly Gay Elementary School teacher in New York City. He and his husband, Richard Dietz, as part of a law suit, successfully sued the City of New York for domestic partnership rights (1994), laying the groundwork for Marriage Equality. Ron has had three one-man shows for his artwork, as well as being in numerous group shows. His poetry has been published. Most recently he has had memoir essays published in RFD Magazine. He has synthesized a scarred childhood, teaching, creating, advocating, mystical searching, being Gay in a taboo world into "Slayer."