Crabs Cult Classic Book 8
I might be accused of
being a crabby cultist, or a crab cult member or just a cult crabber. Either
way, I’m a happy fan of Guy N. Smith’s legendary crab’s horror novels. Yeah, crabs.
I’m hoping by now many of you have ordered books direct from Guy’s website. The
thing about the crabs is this – they hate humans, and they are intelligent
enough to plan attacks on coastal towns. They are extremely difficult to kill,
and once you make them angry they won’t forget you. Did I mention these are
giant crabs? Reading a crab’s novel is the prose equivalent of a drive-in movie
horror fest in Technicolor which means the blood and sunsets are all red. Red
is the color a killer crab wants to see as its pinchers rip your body apart. Crabs Omnibus is a 2015 collection from
Black Hill Books. The collection starts out with a novelette, “Crustacean
Carnage,” followed by the shorts, “Decoy,” “Revenge,” “The Vigil,” “The
Survivor,” “Crabs Armada,” and “The Final Encounter.” These shorts work quite
well no matter their length. Smith dives right in and the crabs are feeding
again. My favorite here is “Revenge” which ties up loose ends from Killer Crabs and offers a final fate for
Klin, the masculine Australian outdoorsmen who still believes that stolen money
is buried in the sand near his old place. (see Killer Crabs for the details). This is the eighth crabs book by
Smith and I have a gnawing suspicion
we haven’t seen the last of the crabs. Meanwhile, rather than go out to dinner
at the local Red Lobster Restaurant, why not log onto Guy’s website and order
one of his books. Smith’s crab’s books are an acquired taste, but once you
savor that tender meat, you’ll be hooked on a crustacean diet.
COMPLETE CRABS TITLE
LIST:
Night of the Crabs
(1976)
Killer Crabs (1978)
The Origin of the Crabs
(1979)
Crabs on the Rampage
(1981)
Crabs’ Moon (1984)
Crabs: The Human
Sacrifice (1988)
Killer Crabs: The
Return (2012)
Crabs Omnibus (shorts
collection, 2015)
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