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|title=Crawlers
|author=Sam Enthoven
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=272
|publisher=Corgi
|date=April 2010
|isbn=0552558702
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Alert! Alert! Mind controlling rubbery spider creature at six o'clock! Hostile! Dive! Dive!
If you're looking for an absolute gorefest, you will find it here. Horrible creatures maurauding marauding through the Barbican, a group of mismatched, trapped teenagers who don't trust one another, hordes of zombified adults, and a clock ticking towards a massive explosion - what more could you want?! I'm not the world's greatest fan of schlock, but I have to say I found ''Crawlers'' immensely enjoyable. It's clear that Sam Enthoven had an absolute ball writing it and the enthusisasm comes across in spades.
All the action is squashed into a six-hour timeframe, and so the writing is smart, snappy and pacy. The characters represent the standard stereotypes - bully, nerd, hanger-on, reluctant hero, etc, but they are given much better treatment than is the norm in some genre novels. Each of the trapped children gets a fully-rounded personality and some backstory, too. And it isn't only the two central characters, Ben and Jasmine, who get to behave heroically. The monsters are suitably disgusting - as is the cover art, look at the thumbnail up there! Ugh! - and you get an amusing nod to the evils of greedy corporations, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I am sure they'd also love [[Savannah Grey: A Horror Story by Cliff McNish]]. [[Blood Water by Dean Vincent Carter]] has a similar premise to ''Crawlers'', but isn't quite as good. [[My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick]] is a much more literary, but equally horrific, affair. [[The Ribbajack and Other Curious Yarns by Brian Jacques]] has horror and humour combined in six delicious short stories.
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[[Category:Horror]]
