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Night of the Crabs

(Crabs Series, Book 1)

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Night of the Crabs

By: Guy N. Smith
Narrated by: Pete Gold
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Professor Cliff Davenport's nephew disappears with his girlfriend while swimming off the Welsh Coast. Davenport discovers that a colony of giant crabs is responsible, and resolves to track down and destroy them. Will he succeed before the monstrous crabs devour entire human populations? Full of action, suspense and gore, this is classic 1970s animal attack horror by bestselling British author Guy N. Smith (1939-2020). Night of the Crabs (published originally by NEL in 1976) is the first in an 8-book series. The others are (in order of first-publication dates): Killer Crabs (1978), 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 (2015 anthology of short stories), The Charnel Caves (2019).

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Night of the Crabs is like… imagine if Jaws had legs. And claws. And zero chill. I was listening like a maniac thinking, “yo, these crabs are beefing with humanity and I am HERE for it.” Plot? Dunno. Characters? Who cares. Big chompy crab monsters going snip-snap on people?? CINEMA. This book is basically seafood revenge and I love it. Sorry Grisedale but certainly DO want a second Crab War!!!

I’ve got crabs now!

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At last Guy N Smith on audible
I like to think it was me stubbenly typing Guy's name into the audible search everyday for the past 3 years that got us here, but here we are and awsome, hope more are on the way.
And sorry the new art is terrible.

long overdue

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I hadn't read this book since sometime in the late 1970's when someone at school lent a copy. I remembered the enthusiastic depiction of violence though. It's a fast-paced story, but the dialogue has dated badly. The reading itself is very good and I hope more of the Crabs series will be available soon.

1970's Horror...Click Click Clickety Click.

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