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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2008 20:26:28 GMT
In for a penny .... Guy N. Smith - Crabs On The Rampage (Nel, Sept 1981) They had come back ...
One man only saw them and him they killed, hunted him down through the dense reed beds, trapped him, drove him mad with terror before they pulled him to pieces and ate every bloodied shred of his body.
And then it was quiet again for a little while.
Until they came ashore again, in their hundreds, their bodies reeking with the malignant, cancerous disease that was within them. The disease that was driving them mad with pain, mad to kill, to wipe out every living thing in their path.
On that holiday beach were hundreds of men, women and children. Food.The crabs, despite their lethal illness, are determined to go out with a bang and, for the most part, have a great time of it, scuttling about the coastline, blowing up power stations, snapping everybody in half, venturing inland (definitely approve of their destruction of the Isle of Dogs and nice to see the Blackwall Tunnel erased from the map!). I was a little concerned that GNS had overlooked the all-important sequence where one of the stricken monsters is cannibalised by his colleagues but, nope, the old master doesn't make slip-ups like that. There are some hints that it's all the Russians' fault and maybe the crabs have only left the seabed because there's something worse than themselves down there. As the-only-man-who-can-save-us, Prof. Cliff Davenport suffers from advanced charisma deficiency and doesn't get much to do but chase around looking for dead crabs until he gets involved in a wrestling match with a living-ish specimen, and, due to (or despite?) leaving his wife at home while he does the tricky stuff in London, he doesn't get to shag anything although a number of victims compensate for his thoughtlessness.
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Post by dreadlocksmile on Jun 20, 2009 14:23:30 GMT
Dreadlocksmile Review:Back in 1981 Guy N Smith released the forth instalment into his popular crabs series entitled `Crabs on the Rampage'. Ever the prolific writer, the year of 1981 also saw the publication of five other novels by Smith including `Doomflight', `Manitou Doll', `Warhead', `Entombed' and `Wolfcurse'. Great Britain is once again at the mercy of the giant crabs as they return to wreak more bloody havoc on the islands unprepared population. The monstrous crabs are as big as ever, but this time they have a deeper rage for humankind burning inside them. The crabs are dying from a cancer that is slowly eating away at them from the inside. The cancer was man's doing; caused by an underwater nuclear explosion. Now the crabs have revenge in their sights and they're here for bloodshed. Intent on causing as much death and suffering for humankind as possible, the crabs return to the shores of Great Britain, destroying bridges and buildings and anything else that lies in their wake. Nowhere appears safe with the crustaceans finding their way to the heart of London via the River Thames. Carnage ensues, as the crabs unleash a bloodthirsty onslaught upon mankind in every possible direction. Cliff Davenport is once again called in to tackle the returning crab epidemic. With the death toll rising by the minute, there is little more anyone can do but simply try to defend themselves. It is soon learnt that the crabs are dying from the cancer that's eating away at them from their insides, and with this news the defensive position held by man changes to one of offensive. The crabs attempt a series of final rage filled assaults, once again on the picturesque location of Shell Island and subsequently on to Bournemouth beach (an echo from the battles within `Night of the Crabs'). It's only a matter of time before the crabs die from their cancer, but their final assaults on mankind are so devastating that time is now running out for them too. From the outset `Crabs on the Rampage' unleashes a veritable tsunami of splatter filled violence. Smith clearly went all out to top the scales of gore drenched crab action in this action packed instalment. For sheer brutality alone the storyline is entertainment from start to finish. Rage fuelled crabs, hell bent on revenge, creates one hell of a deadly opponent. The story is packed full of memorable moments, such as the crabs causing carnage within a congested motorway tunnel. The blood spill is in epic proportions with this fast paced thrill of a novel. The ending is somewhat inevitable and leaves all us crab fans with a final heart felt sigh. Running for 157 pages, this is a monstrous addition to the crabs series and one that cannot be ignored by all good splatter-punk fans and pulp horror enthusiasts. Gore drenched genius! www.amazon.co.uk/review/RYZ5BLH5DDHFJ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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