Slugs

Believe or not.....I had never read this gem of a horror classic until just recently. Shaun Hutson did a remarkable job of keeping the story going at a steady pace. The characters are very well developed and I felt sorry for the health inspector....poor guy had his hands full. While reading the book I was definitely reminded of when I lived in Joplin, Mo. The whole town was sitting on top of a mined out lead mine and oh boy...did the slugs ever come out at night! Up through the drains....all over the houses and the ground was crawling with them. Some of them were over 12 inches long! As far as I know they never ate anybody though....just disgusting as heck! 5 Stars is well deserved for this awesome book!

My first memory of Slugs was as a child at the local video store. I would always gaze in wonderment at the shelves of forbidden horror movies, equally scared and excited by looking at the covers, my imagination running wild wondering what lay within. Seeing the Slugs VHS cover was particularly harrowing. It wasn't until years later that I actually tracked down the book that the VHS was based on. By all accounts, the movie was fairly poor and could not live up to the book it was based on. There is something about humanity that we harbor an unease about being the dominant species. There is always a primal fear lurking that mother nature will turn on us. If you couple that fear with one of the slimiest and uniformly disliked creatures, you have a winning combination for a nature-run-amok story.The story follows a health inspector, Mike Brady, who discovers the first victim of the slugs and his subsequent investigation. As the story unfolds, what first appeared to be a crazy theory about the slugs being responsible clearly is proven true. Public encounters with the slugs increase, as do the number of casualties and evidence of slime trails. Mike and his wife, Kim, enlist the help of Don Palmer, a sewage officer, and John Foley, a museum curator, to get to the bottom of the outbreak and find a way to stop them before they spread from their breeding ground in the sewers into the general water supply.The slugs are an ever-present threat throughout the book. They are silent. You won't hear them coming. They are small and can slither through small spaces, disgustingly including many human orifices. They are carnivorous and can hide unnoticed in food. Ingesting a slug will, of course, lead to a very unpleasant death. If that is not enough, put them in a large enough quantity in an enclosed area and that is seriously fear inspiring. These are not the type of slugs that a sprinkling of salt or poison will take care of.This is a very enjoyable read. Slugs is a wildly entertaining book. So much fun! There are so many scenes of the most vomit-inducing grossness. My particular favorite occurs over lunch at a restaurant. After reading this you will never look at a slug the same way. Shaun Hutson wrote a sequel to this called Breeding Ground that I'd also recommend. It's more of the same, but in this case that is a good thing.8/10

Delivered quickly and condition looks awesome! I bought this because of the movie. I never knew there was a book! I'm only one chapter 5, but so far I'm loving it!

The small town of Merton is overrun with carnivorous slugs in yet another entry in the mutated pest genre created by James Herbert's classic novel The Rats. Shaun Hutson heaps on the grue and keeps the pace lightning fast, so the strong stomached reader can expect to finish the book in less that a day or two. Not high literature, but passable entertainment with quite a nasty edge.

A great creature feature. My first Shaun Hutson book to read, and I loved it! Just follow the slimy trails for a creepy crawly good time full of B Movie type terror '

This tome is an excellent value for its price--you get three novels in one! The stories are graphic page-turners, and the descriptions imbue your mind with both terror and intrigue.

This is the only novel that ever actually made me gag. By that, I mean, of course, what happens in the novel, not the novel itself. It's strong stuff all right and maybe not to be taken on a full stomach. Walter Eugene Lane author of  Bone Ugly And Other Tales Of Terror

Good book, good price, GREAT shipping.

This book was as good as the first time I read it, over 10 years ago.Shaun Hutson certainly deserves the title Godfather of Gore.Will be reaquainting myself with more of his books

Everything about this book seems wrong, and that's why everyone reads it, right? 'A horror novel about slugs? How can that be?' And, of course, I had to read it because I had to see how it was done. It's fairly obvious that Shaun Hutson asked himself: "how do I make something as mundane as slugs scary?" And then the question remains for readers: Was Hutson successful?And he was. Review over, essentially. If you want to read a creepy book about blood-thirsty slugs … well, here you go.Hutson made slugs ten times more greusome and a million times more violent than I ever dreamed was possible. It's a fun book to read. I really enjoyed it. I won't say that it is the type of book I couldn't put down, but sections of it were brilliant and gory and even quite perverse.The writing is very good, except I think he maybe used the word recalcitrant six or seven times, like his word of the day was a stuttering misprint. And there is a lot of graphic sex in it, which I was not expecting and is fine, but seems out of place.But then again, everything seems out of place in this novel. I really think that it should not work. It seems episodic, with a thin plot, and a thin premise, yet it works. It really does. It's totally fun to read, and I liked it, and I found it sickeningly terrifying. There were moments of extreme discomfort in reading some of the gory passages.I give it a mucous coated thumbs up.

Will never look at slugs the same ever again...Good book. The story is written at a good pace and I could picture all the gory scenes in my head.

I have been reading Shaun Hutson's horror books for 40 ish years they arefantastic just hope he continues writing horror books, sure he has many happyreaders.

Slugs is fairly typical 80s horror pulp fiction. That's not a criticism! It's a ridiculous tale about killer slugs who sound 2 feet long but turn out to be slightly larger than normal. Like all good cheesy horror novels, no woman is introduced without describing her breasts, just about everyone between teenage and middle age is horny and doomed characters arrive on stage clutching a cliched resume to make them real. Somewhat bizarrely, Hutson alternates the tag for his main character between "Brady" and "the Health Inspector" - despite informing us that Brady is a Health Inspector when we first meet him. Huh? Perhaps it's a clumsy way to avoid repeating the same name too often. At the end we've heard it all before but it's a jolly romp nonetheless. My first Hutson but definitely not my last.