From
the back cover
“The
beach was filled with happy vacationers. They’d forgotten THE CRABS. . . like a
bad dream chased away by the morning sun.
“We’d wiped
out these mutant monsters. The giant creatures whose hunger raged for human
flesh were dead.
“Or
were they? Scientist Cliff Davenport feared the nightmare wasn’t over. But he
didn’t know the terrifying truth. THE CRABS were back─disease-ridden, mad with
pain. Mad with hunger.
“And
on that beach were hundreds of men, women and children. Food for. . . crabs on
the rampage.”
Review
Crabs is a
solid, mostly by-the-numbers stalk-and-kill read, a well-written B-movie novel.
Smith throws a few series-progressive twists in this melodramatic, also-works-as-a-standalone
book, a setup for a much bigger ocean-born threat. I would be surprised if this
is not the basis for a 1950s monster/Syfy Original film. Followed by Crabs’ Moon.
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