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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 20, 2011 16:35:35 GMT
Got my copy of Brain Eaters in the mail just now. Can't wait to, ahem, devour it. My God, what a revolting cover. It's like the guy is in a "who can open their mouth the widest while making a stupid face" contest. I love it.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 18, 2011 16:38:35 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 17, 2011 23:52:12 GMT
Nabbed The Origin of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith! My first "Crabs" book!
Now I just need Slimer and Maggots.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 17, 2011 16:55:23 GMT
Not sure if thse count but in addition to Mantis by E.B Stambaugh I nabbed The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight and The Brain Eaters by Gary Brandner off of eBay. Would've preferred a good old used bookstore but as none really exist where I live, gotta take what I can get.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 16, 2011 10:28:57 GMT
Got my copy in the mail! It's thicker than I anticipated. I've flipped through it and it looks pretty interesting. The Tom Becker character is a real piece of work. Hate him already.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 13, 2011 3:18:28 GMT
By Ian Thorne [really Julian May] Blob, The Creature From The Black Lagoon Deadly Mantis Dracula Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman Godzilla It Came From Outer Space King Kong Mad Scientists Mummy, The Wolf Man, The These aren't actually novelizations so much as children's book summaries of the films. I've read most of them as they were available in my elementary school's library. They're essentially just summaries of the movies' (and movie series') plots in storybook form, under 100 pages.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 12, 2011 4:36:17 GMT
I own both of these. Interesting they'd get the same author to write two totally different books with the same title. Russo's explanation of where the first zombie (the "chemical mummy") went between Frank and Freddy opening the drum and Tina coming downstairs (something left unexplained in the movie) is an odd one, I have to say.
A lot of fans of the movie rather childishly disregard anything the novelization has to say, for some reason (for instance the surnames Russo gives Tina, Frank and Freddy are something they peevishly bite their thumbs at). The Burgess, Maclean and Aston characters are often cited as a huge intrusion and indeed when someone first mentioned them I imagined Russo wrote those three into the main storyline somehow. I was surprised when their two scenes ended up amounting to almost nothing.
All told it is a pretty decent novelization so I don't get why people hate it so much.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 11, 2011 3:12:06 GMT
So what is the deal with the eye? I haven't read this and it's been mentioned here without any explanation, and, sucker for spoilers that I am, I'd love to know.
I'd also love to know where is a good place to get this book. So far Amazon and eBay have proven utterly useless and I'm hellbent on reading it.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 5, 2011 22:39:21 GMT
Snagged a copy of this off of eBay UK. Can't wait for it to arrive. Any other killer mantis novels besides this and Pierce Nace's magnum opus?
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 29, 2011 18:03:57 GMT
Query. Is the author aware that maggots are baby flies and that they eventually grow up into adult flies? Does this occur in the book? 'Cause it sounds from the descriptions I skimmed through that Jarvis is presenting them as being maggots all the time. But then, scientific accuracy was never a particularly strong point in these kinds of books. I confess to having a weak stomach and a deep-seated fear of crawly, squirmy things, so I think this book would severely terrify me. Yeah, I know, what am I doing on this board, then? Well, some types of gore I can take and others I can't. Killer maggots isn't one of them. That said, I am kind of interested in the scene of the woman getting devoured in her tub. Sounds like some prime fetish fuel for certain types of people.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 29, 2011 17:59:16 GMT
I thrill to that prospect. S'why I bought Eat Them Alive. Is it just me or does the cover look like the mantis is reflected in a doorknob? I suddenly have this vague notion of the critter going door to door like the land shark in SNL and eating whoever is gullible enough to open the door.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 29, 2011 17:56:33 GMT
Bought a second copy of the NEL edition off of eBay. One to keep safe, one to read, something I think a lot of comic book collectors do. I also am looking into getting the original Manor edition, too, which will give me three copies of the book. Excessive? I dunno. But this awful little book has captured my heart.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 16, 2011 3:17:40 GMT
The US cover is odd. It looks like some weird modern art painting gone horribly wrong. The UK cover, though, just freaks me the hell out.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 15, 2011 23:18:23 GMT
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 15, 2011 12:19:42 GMT
Some info on the basic premise (without spoiling any of the other individual death scenes): Chemicals poured down the drain in the American city of Chicago cause a giant amorphous organism to be formed out of old hamburger meat (!) and silica gel. The formless thing (the "clone" of the title) converts whatever it touches into more of itself, and thus grows larger and larger. Describing how this creature differs from other blob monsters (that I know of anyway) is difficult. But I'll try. It doesn't so much digest you as directly turn you into more of it. The moment you make physical contact with it, you become an extension of it; where it begins, you end. And the more of you it converts the less of you there is until there is no more you and just more of the clone. You remain conscious for all of this until it gets your vital organs whereupon you die instantly. But if it gets you by the arm or leg you have the dubious honor of being conscious of your physical existence vanishing bit by bit. The process is, oddly, entirely painless, but distressing nonetheless. To me, this is pretty scary. It's not gruesome but it is pretty disturbing. Unlike The Blob, the title creature in The Clone doesn't merely eat you; it almost literally erases you. It converts nonliving matter as well. When it gets large enough, it starts absorbing parts of buildings. It grows so massive it basically begins converting all of Chicago itself. Honestly why this book isn't more famous, especially having nabbed one of the first Nebula Award nominations, is beyond me.
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