Night of the Crabs
by Guy N. Smith | Horror | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1907190163 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1907190163 Global Overview for this book
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Bookcrossing is a wonderful place to share your love of reading with people all over the world and follow a book as it continues on its travels.
Please journal this book, describing where you found it, and then if you want to, what you thought of it. You can remain anonymous if you want to, though if you create a screen name you will be able to get notification each time someone else journals this book in the future.
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Following this books travels can be very fun.
The Welsh coast basks in summer tranquility, then the drownings begin... Not until the monstrous crustaceans crawl ashore, their pincers poised for destruction, does the world understand the threat it faces....
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Guy Newman Smith (born 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, soft-porn, and children's literature..
He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. The series chronicles invasions by giant, man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline.
The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world, and have been spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness in his Garth Marenghi persona.
Smith's work mixes sex, violence, gore and self-conscious humour. Despite his reputation in some quarters as being a hack writer, Smith's novels enjoyed considerable popularity in Poland in the early 1990s, having been cheaply translated and published as pocket editions by the Amber publishing house.
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Guy Newman Smith (born 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, soft-porn, and children's literature..
He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. The series chronicles invasions by giant, man-eating crabs of various areas of British coastline.
The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world, and have been spoofed by the award winning comedian and writer Matthew Holness in his Garth Marenghi persona.
Smith's work mixes sex, violence, gore and self-conscious humour. Despite his reputation in some quarters as being a hack writer, Smith's novels enjoyed considerable popularity in Poland in the early 1990s, having been cheaply translated and published as pocket editions by the Amber publishing house.
Having been picked up in a second hand bookshop in Chepstow, Wales, this book came with me when I moved from the UK to China.
I am going on holiday to Vietnam tomorrow and am taking it with me.
I am going on holiday to Vietnam tomorrow and am taking it with me.
Have not had a chance to read it, so will going back to China with me tomorrow.
Read this book during my journey from Hanoi to Wuhun via Guangzhou airport.
Professor Cliff Davenport goes to investigate the disappearance of his nephew and fiance. He sees evidence of the giant crabs, but has a difficult time convincing the authorities that they exist. Of course there is an attractive woman staying in the same hotel as him who immediately trusts him, resulting in sex scenes in a similar way that a James Herbert horror story must contain the obligatory sex.
Do not an intellectual plot or complicated story line: the crabs show themselves, kill lots of people, appear undefeatable, Davenport saves the day in the end. It is a good fun way to pass the time when you are after some light entertainment.
Professor Cliff Davenport goes to investigate the disappearance of his nephew and fiance. He sees evidence of the giant crabs, but has a difficult time convincing the authorities that they exist. Of course there is an attractive woman staying in the same hotel as him who immediately trusts him, resulting in sex scenes in a similar way that a James Herbert horror story must contain the obligatory sex.
Do not an intellectual plot or complicated story line: the crabs show themselves, kill lots of people, appear undefeatable, Davenport saves the day in the end. It is a good fun way to pass the time when you are after some light entertainment.
Being back home in Foshan, I have entered this book into round 5 of the first sentences virtual book box .
So someone will select the book based solely on this first sentence:
"The sunlight sparkled and shimmered on the deep blue of the incoming tide, the waves lapping gently at the harbour wall".
So someone will select the book based solely on this first sentence:
"The sunlight sparkled and shimmered on the deep blue of the incoming tide, the waves lapping gently at the harbour wall".
Posted to mellion108 in the USA.
Hope it gets there ok.
Hope it gets there ok.
