seizure
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by seizure on Jul 19, 2012 20:58:11 GMT
The Pack by John G. Fuller St. Martin's (1989)  blurb... WHEN YOU CAN'T RUN AND YOU CAN'T HIDE, YOU DIE...SLOWLY.
In the warm, inviting days of summer, tragedy unfolds on Connecticut's idyllic shore. With stately homes overlooking the sparkling, sail-studded waters of Long Island Sound, this picture-perfect refuge is suddenly shattered by a series of terrifying catastrophes. In the wake of a nuclear accident at an offshore power plant, teeming hordes of vicious, irradiated rats threaten the homes, the water supply, the very lives of every resident on the mainland. Now the local townspeople have more than a nuclear nightmare to fear, as a new kind of black plague descends upon them. Now they must fight for raw survival – hoping against hope for a solution – against dark forces of nature gone utterly berserk...Very disappointing this one, not nearly enough rat action and too much talking about nuclear reactors. |
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Post by andydecker on Aug 31, 2023 14:45:35 GMT
John G. Fuller - The Pack (St. Martin's Press, 1989, 282 pages)  Cover found on the net. Thanks to the original scanner.Another which is hard to get. The Ghost of Flight 401 is listed as a non-fiction book. There was a movie. |
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Post by pulphack on Aug 31, 2023 19:46:28 GMT
The Ghost Of Flight 401 was a book I remember my mum getting on holiday one year - she loved it and didn't swallow a word. I think there was a Flight 401 that disappeared (I can't be bothered to google now) and the book was full of documentary detail but then veered off into a bit of a Bermuda Triangle vibe. It was a good read (I read it after her) and his journalistic tone gave it a bit of a Fortean feel (not that I knew what that was at that point, mind). Worth reading with a large container of salt at your elbow...
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 31, 2023 20:20:31 GMT
The Ghost Of Flight 401 was a book I remember my mum getting on holiday one year - she loved it and didn't swallow a word. I think there was a Flight 401 that disappeared (I can't be bothered to google now) and the book was full of documentary detail but then veered off into a bit of a Bermuda Triangle vibe. It was a good read (I read it after her) and his journalistic tone gave it a bit of a Fortean feel (not that I knew what that was at that point, mind). Worth reading with a large container of salt at your elbow... True, but it's still one of my favorites. |
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 11, 2023 23:33:40 GMT
Grabbed a copy of this off of eBay. It's an odd book. Despite the popularity of killer rats in the horror fandom, I'd never heard of it before. The is also weird. "The Pack" seems like it'd be more in line with a book about dogs (and indeed has been used for two other books about precisely that). Unless you know about "the rat pack," then you're not going to associate "pack" with rats (and even then, "the rat pack" wasn't a group of rats, so I'm still unsure what Fuller was going for with the title). It's also, at least from what I've seen so far, functionally just Michael R. Linaker's Scorpion but with rats. And also, so far, only one guy has been attacked, but I'm holding out hope that the book will get better as it goes on. I also gotta say I love the little cover blurb (and others like it) which, if you actually distill it down to its basics is just "it was nice... but then it wasn't." Insert as many exclamation points as you think it deserves. But I don't read these books for originality. As long as killer rats kill some people, I'm happy.
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