Published in French by J’ai lu, Baiser mortel presents a Ray Garton title within the French fantastique tradition. The available edition is a mass-market paperback from 2000, catalogued with fantasy and science-fiction shelving and associated with genre fiction that leans toward the uncanny and the unsettling. With limited plot information in the surviving metadata, this record should be treated as a French-language edition of Garton’s genre work rather than as a separately identified original title. Its bibliographic profile points readers toward dark speculative fiction and the broader fantastique field, where strange events and disturbing imaginative premises are central to the reading experience.