Slugs (novel)
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Slugs is a 1982 horror novel
written by Shaun Hutson
. In 1988 it was adapted as an American horror film of the same name
. In this book, carnivorous slugs go on a rampage.
They Slime... They ooze... They kill...
One female slug can lay one and a 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...
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
written by Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson is a writer of novels including horror novels and dark urban thrillers. A native of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, England, Hutson now lives and writes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire....
. In 1988 it was adapted as an American horror film of the same name
Slugs (film)
Slugs, muerte viscosa is a 1988 American horror film based on the novel Slugs by Shaun Hutson. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded....
. In this book, carnivorous slugs go on a rampage.
They Slime... They ooze... They kill...
One female slug can lay one and a 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...