Crustaceans By William Meikle

William Meikle’s Crustaceans is a horror tale rivaling classic visions that inspire such tellings as Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and more recent nightmares such as “Bug”. In the literary form William Meikle has brought forth a world were there are more terrifying things in the seas than your average shark. Crustaceans permeates dark foreboding suspense and struggle for survival beautifully in this chilling story that finds a new beast to prey on humanity.


From Scottish writer William Meikle comes a novel that is a welcome return to those tomes of pure enjoyment that we read with guilt in our early teens, in the tradition of James Herbert’s THE RATS and Guy N. Smith’s NIGHT OF THE CRABS.

It begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline--not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.

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