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The Skittering

By: David Haynes
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Summary

Crease is known in Weaver as ‘the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature.

Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist.

Through the night they come, slithering, buzzing, scuttling, crawling over skin, burrowing into flesh, making the town their nest.
Time is soon running out for Crease and the other survivors, as that hideous skittering noise closes in from all around…

©2020 David Haynes (P)2022 W F Howes Action & Adventure Horror Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal
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Although it started off slow it certainly built up for the rest of the story. What an imagination. I saw in my mind these bugs and and cringed at every description. Reminiscent of James Herbert

Outstanding

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Well paced, creepy, and fun. Like a good old-fashioned B-Movie.
Competently narrated. It's definitely a good listen.

Enjoyable creature feature

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This was very fun creature horror. 

It's a nice, self-contained romp through what would be a pretty cool TV Movie. It has its ups and its downs as far as quality story-telling goes. I think my main issue with the storytelling is that less people seemed to be aware of what was going on than would have been the case in a real-life setting. If you had a small town besieged by impossibly over-sized bugs with a taste for human flesh, more than just the cadre of main and lesser characters would be aware of it. 

I think having news reports going about the situation, flashing lights from start to finish etc ... just a bit more of a state of 'Well, this is absolutely crazy, somebody help!' than we actually got throughout.

Other than that, though, this was a really enjoyable book. the action scenes were borderline flawless and incredibly (like very) vivid in the details of what was going on. You'll be less thrilled than you already would be next time you see a wasp/yellowjacket after reading this book.

I imagine this would slot somewhere in the 'creature feature' category of horror, but it's just close enough to the 'believable horror' side of things to appeal to anyone not into the creature genre.

The characters were pretty well-created, although some clearly had a lot more work done to them than others, and the author clearly put no work other than 'I'm going to make you hate this guy' energy into a couple of them. 

The plotline is quite drug-heavy. So if it's the kind of thing that puts you off as a reader then maybe give this one a skip

Very fun creature horror

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Fantastic body horror, with absolutely visceral language that made your skin crawl. Well written and made me cautious of every bug I came across whilst listening.

Disgustingly gorey and viscerally written

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This story gave me the ick! Really enjoyed the characters and the story was moved quickly enough to keep me interested to the end.

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