Maggots

by Edward Jarvis

Genres: Horror

235 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

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Reviews

[La Nécropolivre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible satire masked as a horror novel. Incomprehensible inside jokes, overwrought, excessively caricatural characters make this book rapidly painful to read. Must be one of the most misleading cover ever! I found it somehow fascinating. For bad novels aficionados only.

[Ben · Rating 1 out of 5]

Everyone speaks in the same way and everyone says everything three times - "Hello, Sir. Hello to you, Sir, Hello, indeed". Sometimes they say it four or five times. The book is so badly written that you are constantly pulled out of the story. Some passages are almost identical to earlier passages. The description of the maggots rarely changes and we are told what a threat they are again and again and again, almost always in exactly the same way. Nothing ever happens, either.

Going to give this one to a charity shop.

[Signor Mambrino · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jesus Christ, this was unbelievable bad. It seems like it was written by an alien pretending to be a human. It's not scary, funny or clever. A real stinking turd.

[Mikepottz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Forget the laboriously long sentences, the archaic writing, the horrendous attempt at numerous accents, the repetitive and atrocious dialogue and embrace billions of maggots moving like a river and flowing up legs, engulfing torso's , hundreds of tons of maggots cascading down waterfalls, volcanos erupting and spewing maggots. This is so bad its good territory and the cover is by far the BEST vintage cover ever!