Slugs

Rating:
Summary: Killer slugs? You've got to be taking the proverbial.
Review: Apparently Shaun Hutson's writing career started when, after reading a horror paperback called 'Night of the Crabs'(5 stars), thought he could do better.

'Slugs' tries so hard to be gory and shocking, but the thought of killer slugs biting and attacking people is just too comical to be taken seriously. Alright, so slugs can be considered disgusting, but they're hardly terrifying. The book does manage to be fairly entertaining, however, and should provide for lovers of gore and repulsiveness. Lovers of creepy and suspenceful mutated-animal horror stories, on the other hand, would be better off finding a copy of 'Night of the Crabs'.

Rating:
Summary: Beware!
Review: If you don't mind stearing clear of the little suckers (no pun intended) for the rest of your days then, by all means, read this book. What a master of the creepy.

Rating:
Summary: Monsters of the garden variety.
Review: 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.