Product Description

They slime, the ooze, they kill...One female slug can lay one and half million eggs a year- a fact which holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist-high grass, in the dank, dark cellars they are acquiring new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For flesh. Human flesh...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #335052 in Books
• Published on: 1990-06-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Shaun Hutson is a bestselling author of horror fiction and has written novels under eight different pseudonyms. He has also contributed stories to 'Kerrang' and 'Raw' and used to host Sky TV's 'Monsters of Rock' programme.

Customer Reviews

Sluggish horror
This is quite an easy, undemanding read: I don't intend this as a criticism - there is a real skill in putting together a work which the reader can just sit down and sink into, maybe on a flight or railway journey.
The horror is of the gross rather than the cerebral kind. Nobody likes slugs. They're less appealing than spiders. If they moved faster, there would be thousands of people living with major psychoses, and slug hunters would be macho posers to be found in any club or dancehall.

Shaun Hutson recognises that slugs are slow moving and, obviously, disgusting to look at ... or handle ... and they can be quite chewy if you don't cook them right.
Hutson's slugs, however, begin to evolve, to become upwardly mobile, setting their sights on escape from the sewer and sliding up the pecking order to predate on humans. Could you actually see yourself being hunted down and devoured by a pack of ravenous slugs, many of them eight inches long? Would any man exaggerate length? Only in the interests of a fear factor.
"Slugs" follows a Health Inspector - the front line troops in the war against horror - as he uncovers the truth about the slime trails appearing on his patch and begins to comprehend that the new super slugs are gathering for an assault on his sleepy little English town.
It's an amusing, entertaining, and well-written little tale ... and I promise you, you will wash lettuce leaves thoroughly from now on! (Which reminds me, you can have a lot of fun with liquorice allsorts - the black ones - in a salad!)

BLEURGH!!!
Ewww, this book is seriously gross! I've read tons of sick and twisted books, but this is nasty! Everytime I see a slug now I leave it well alone and run!!! Theres actually some truth to this story too, which makes it so much worse!

And you think you are unshockable.............
This was my first Hutson experience and I had to chose the most brain curdling of the lot (and I have read every stunning delight from this man). Just when you think Hutson has reached the limits of collaboration, you turn the page and find yourself reaching for the bucket again. Read this if (like me) you thought horror books were "boring". The thing is - by the end of the book, you realise that although this terror couldn't possibly happen in real life, it probably WILL anyway. Clever, clever man. Keep them coming, Maestro!

Madeleine Sharma - Jan 2000