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Killer Flies
The population is being eaten up alive--in a harrowing novel of flesh-creeping horror...
First they feasted on farm animals. Then they found humans...
A little girl was dead, attacked and mutilated by some things, creatures of nightmare that were spreading outward like the Black Death, stripping entire towns bare of life.
The death toll mounted, with bodies maimed or ripped to shreds, and thousands cowered in the shadows, hiding fearfully from the death out of the skies, the millions of sucking probosci eagerly reaching out for the attack. And terror erupted into uncontrollable panic, as a lone scientist worked feverishly to save a dying population and destroy the KILLER FLIES.
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Swarms of carnivorous flies terrorize a small New Mexico town and the scientist responsible for the insects' creation must find a way to stop them before the Air Force is allowed to take more drastic measures.
First they feasted on farm animals. Then they found humans...
A little girl was dead, attacked and mutilated by some things, creatures of nightmare that were spreading outward like the Black Death, stripping entire towns bare of life.
The death toll mounted, with bodies maimed or ripped to shreds, and thousands cowered in the shadows, hiding fearfully from the death out of the skies, the millions of sucking probosci eagerly reaching out for the attack. And terror erupted into uncontrollable panic, as a lone scientist worked feverishly to save a dying population and destroy the KILLER FLIES.
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Swarms of carnivorous flies terrorize a small New Mexico town and the scientist responsible for the insects' creation must find a way to stop them before the Air Force is allowed to take more drastic measures.
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159 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 7, 1983
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July 10, 2016
This was a very quick read; I got through it in just a couple of hours. Delightful horror story with superficial trappings of sci-fi, a true descendant of Jaws. A truck, unaccountably loaded with boxes of killer flies, goes off the edge of a cliff and releases the cargo, with deleterious effects on the surrounding areas of New Mexico. The author did not forget to include strong adult themes, but did not think it inappropriate to show the plucky rancher -- a ravishing blonde who's just lost her husband and daughter in swift, horrible succession -- focusing more on being torn between two new men in her life rather than defeating the fly menace or just, you know, grieving her losses. The author also paid zero attention to the well-known life cycle of a fly, making the adult flies look like the real menace instead of their gross, maggoty offspring. The solution to the puzzle of how to defeat them was hilarious.
December 17, 2021
A tale as old as time: incompetent government vs. nature gone rogue. In parts, Killer Flies reminded me of Gila! by Les Simon. Scenario is maximum camp, its almost scant length padded with clumsy sex scenes and a wavering commitment to the violence they pledged an oath to provide. I will say this in Killer Flies defense - there are some golden moments of killer fly mayhem. Passages packaging a successful backstory for a meal-piece character, following through with a brief but brutal death, but it mostly falls into the same trap that Gila! did by quickly glossing over the carnage in favor of a closing punctuation mark. Story-wise, I preferred Gila! though. I feel as if cramming both of these books together would make something infinitely more palatable. The ending here is a complete rushjob, and the pages leading up to it were mind-numbingly boring. I will say this, Killer Flies has the most inane stretching-of-plausibility love triangle I've read in a long time. Not much fun to be had from this, when all is said and done. A missed mark.
I'll have more to add if I decide to expound later.
I'll have more to add if I decide to expound later.
April 13, 2022
4/13/22 Update: I was contacted the publisher and notified that the errors in the text have been corrected. Hooray!
Update: Our Staring Into The Abyss episode featuring Killer Flies is now live! Hear what Rich, Matt, and I all had to say! https://staringintotheabyss.libsyn.co...
Original review follows...
Mark Kendall's Killer Flies is a direct shot of '80s horror nostalgia, both good and bad. Originally published by Signet in 1983, this book rides on the wave of similarly themed "Killer Animal" titles popularized by the wild success of Peter Benchley's Jaws, James Herbert's The Rats, Guy N. Smith's Killer Crabs, and the mutated killer cockroaches of Gregory A. Douglas's The Nest.
As the title indicates, Killer Flies is about, well, killer flies. Go figure. Out of print for 37 years, Encyclopocalypse Publications brought back this lost work in October 2020. It holds up well enough, but like a lot of 80s fare, time and progress haven't exactly been kind to it. That said, you get exactly what you expect out of it, which is to say a whole lot of killer flies mercilessly killing everything they come into contact with. The flies themselves are genetically modified horrors, originally developed to combat the dangers fruit flies pose to California crops, and after an accident totals the truck they are being transported in and accidentally breaks them free from of their shipping containers, we're off to the races.
Immediately, we're treated to attacks on animals and children, with Kendall sparing little expense to ramp up the body count often, repeatedly and repetitively. A fair number of people get their eyes torn apart by invading proboscises as this massive, bloodthirsty hive terrorizes Santa Fe. Eager to destroy the flies and save their fellow tormented ranchers are Hutch and Sherry, whose young daughter and horse were brutally murdered when the invading flies passed through their farm. Hutch is the hunky ranch-hand working for Sherry, but grief and peril bring them closer together as they try to suss out a way to stop the killer flies invasion.
It's with Hutch and Sherry that Killer Flies gets into some thornier issues. Sherry vacillates between hysteria and tough-as-nails action heroine with little in between to help define her. Hutch is a full-on '80s-era view of masculinity whose relationship with Sherry grows to be defined by casual abuse as he casually smacks her around and screams in her face when she gets too emotional following the death of her daughter and numerous close-calls as they evade becoming fly food. This, the characters, acknowledge, is love, and readers are expected to view Hutch as a hero rather a perpetrator of domestic violence. Sherry's own viewpoint and measure of self-worth is interestingly defined late in the book when she, Hutch, and the scientists responsible for creating the flies attempt to get the governor to listen to their plans and takes a backseat to the men. "This wasn't the time for a woman... It would take someone with credibility..." Kendall writes, which is certainly a hell of a take in 2020 but does show the mindset of a woman's place in early '80s America -- at least from a man's point of view.
What's perhaps most interesting about Killer Flies is that Mark Kendall was actually a pseudonym for author and screenwriter Melinda Snodgrass. Tapped by an editor friend at Signet to write this book for their "Killer Animal" horror series, Snodgrass took the assignment to pay her bills and wrote in the style of those male horror authors writing these kinds of paperback horrors at the time. She apes this style quite authentically, drafting overly portentous cliffhangers and melodramatic dialogue, alongside pitch-perfect Men Writing Women cringe moments such as when Sherry grows worried about her missing daughter: "Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger." It is, of course, super important in a scene of rising tension and horror for "Kendall" to focus on just how worried Sherry's breasts have become... Ah, the '80s. (Although, admittedly, not much as changed in terms of men poorly writing women circa the 21st Century.)
Killer Flies and the Mark Kendall pseudonym were a one-off for Snodgrass, who is better known for her work as story editor for the second and third seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her script for the second season episode, "The Measure of a Man," has regularly been cited as one of the series best and heralded by Entertainment Weekly as "the first truly great episode" of TNG. In addition to writing several other sci-fi books, Snodgrass also helped develop Wild Cards with George R.R. Martin.
Interestingly, Snodgrass makes no mention of Mark Kendall or the recently resurrected Killer Flies on her official website, nor in her biography, which does note her other works under the pen name Phillipa Bornikova. Sadly, it's unlikely this Encyclopocalypse Publications edition will have her racing to reclaim this lost work. No doubt scanned from a type-written manuscript and fed through an optical character reader, this edition of Killer Flies can add to its list of problems an overwhelming number of typos and spacing issues. Optical character recognition software has difficulty telling the difference between lowercase Ns and Rs so "barn" becomes "bam" and "burn" becomes "bum," which can make for some confusing and awkward moments. There's also a random proliferation of lowercase Js throughout the text, with lines like "she willed j the" and "whispered a small j voice" popping up with irritating frequency. It's a shame that after nearly 40 years of being MIA nobody could be bothered to proofread this book before returning it to print.
Killer Flies is an interesting bit of early-'80s ephemera, one that once again rides on the coattails of popular trends as this new edition attempts to lure in readers in search of more Paperbacks From Hell. And a fair bit of it is enjoyable, if one is willing to overlook the casual sexism, misogyny, and racism of the era, and the rampant errors introduced to the text by modern-day technology in an attempt to cash in on a wave of period horror collectors. To its credit, it does have a certain charm and cinematic quality, and very much reads like a pulpy, low-budget B-movie that never was, so much so that I could easily see the cheap, grainy film stock and cigarette burns marring each gross, hammily acted scene.
Update: Our Staring Into The Abyss episode featuring Killer Flies is now live! Hear what Rich, Matt, and I all had to say! https://staringintotheabyss.libsyn.co...
Original review follows...
Mark Kendall's Killer Flies is a direct shot of '80s horror nostalgia, both good and bad. Originally published by Signet in 1983, this book rides on the wave of similarly themed "Killer Animal" titles popularized by the wild success of Peter Benchley's Jaws, James Herbert's The Rats, Guy N. Smith's Killer Crabs, and the mutated killer cockroaches of Gregory A. Douglas's The Nest.
As the title indicates, Killer Flies is about, well, killer flies. Go figure. Out of print for 37 years, Encyclopocalypse Publications brought back this lost work in October 2020. It holds up well enough, but like a lot of 80s fare, time and progress haven't exactly been kind to it. That said, you get exactly what you expect out of it, which is to say a whole lot of killer flies mercilessly killing everything they come into contact with. The flies themselves are genetically modified horrors, originally developed to combat the dangers fruit flies pose to California crops, and after an accident totals the truck they are being transported in and accidentally breaks them free from of their shipping containers, we're off to the races.
Immediately, we're treated to attacks on animals and children, with Kendall sparing little expense to ramp up the body count often, repeatedly and repetitively. A fair number of people get their eyes torn apart by invading proboscises as this massive, bloodthirsty hive terrorizes Santa Fe. Eager to destroy the flies and save their fellow tormented ranchers are Hutch and Sherry, whose young daughter and horse were brutally murdered when the invading flies passed through their farm. Hutch is the hunky ranch-hand working for Sherry, but grief and peril bring them closer together as they try to suss out a way to stop the killer flies invasion.
It's with Hutch and Sherry that Killer Flies gets into some thornier issues. Sherry vacillates between hysteria and tough-as-nails action heroine with little in between to help define her. Hutch is a full-on '80s-era view of masculinity whose relationship with Sherry grows to be defined by casual abuse as he casually smacks her around and screams in her face when she gets too emotional following the death of her daughter and numerous close-calls as they evade becoming fly food. This, the characters, acknowledge, is love, and readers are expected to view Hutch as a hero rather a perpetrator of domestic violence. Sherry's own viewpoint and measure of self-worth is interestingly defined late in the book when she, Hutch, and the scientists responsible for creating the flies attempt to get the governor to listen to their plans and takes a backseat to the men. "This wasn't the time for a woman... It would take someone with credibility..." Kendall writes, which is certainly a hell of a take in 2020 but does show the mindset of a woman's place in early '80s America -- at least from a man's point of view.
What's perhaps most interesting about Killer Flies is that Mark Kendall was actually a pseudonym for author and screenwriter Melinda Snodgrass. Tapped by an editor friend at Signet to write this book for their "Killer Animal" horror series, Snodgrass took the assignment to pay her bills and wrote in the style of those male horror authors writing these kinds of paperback horrors at the time. She apes this style quite authentically, drafting overly portentous cliffhangers and melodramatic dialogue, alongside pitch-perfect Men Writing Women cringe moments such as when Sherry grows worried about her missing daughter: "Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger." It is, of course, super important in a scene of rising tension and horror for "Kendall" to focus on just how worried Sherry's breasts have become... Ah, the '80s. (Although, admittedly, not much as changed in terms of men poorly writing women circa the 21st Century.)
Killer Flies and the Mark Kendall pseudonym were a one-off for Snodgrass, who is better known for her work as story editor for the second and third seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her script for the second season episode, "The Measure of a Man," has regularly been cited as one of the series best and heralded by Entertainment Weekly as "the first truly great episode" of TNG. In addition to writing several other sci-fi books, Snodgrass also helped develop Wild Cards with George R.R. Martin.
Interestingly, Snodgrass makes no mention of Mark Kendall or the recently resurrected Killer Flies on her official website, nor in her biography, which does note her other works under the pen name Phillipa Bornikova. Sadly, it's unlikely this Encyclopocalypse Publications edition will have her racing to reclaim this lost work. No doubt scanned from a type-written manuscript and fed through an optical character reader, this edition of Killer Flies can add to its list of problems an overwhelming number of typos and spacing issues. Optical character recognition software has difficulty telling the difference between lowercase Ns and Rs so "barn" becomes "bam" and "burn" becomes "bum," which can make for some confusing and awkward moments. There's also a random proliferation of lowercase Js throughout the text, with lines like "she willed j the" and "whispered a small j voice" popping up with irritating frequency. It's a shame that after nearly 40 years of being MIA nobody could be bothered to proofread this book before returning it to print.
Killer Flies is an interesting bit of early-'80s ephemera, one that once again rides on the coattails of popular trends as this new edition attempts to lure in readers in search of more Paperbacks From Hell. And a fair bit of it is enjoyable, if one is willing to overlook the casual sexism, misogyny, and racism of the era, and the rampant errors introduced to the text by modern-day technology in an attempt to cash in on a wave of period horror collectors. To its credit, it does have a certain charm and cinematic quality, and very much reads like a pulpy, low-budget B-movie that never was, so much so that I could easily see the cheap, grainy film stock and cigarette burns marring each gross, hammily acted scene.
September 24, 2022
4.5 stars
In no way, shape, or form is Killer Flies really that “good”. In fact, it’s probably more along the lines of “trash” than anything…but oh what glorious trash it is.
Yes, this is pretty much a blatant rip off of Daniel’s Gila (right down to the New Mexico setting) and only replacing the titular giant poisonous lizards with titular giant poisonous flies, and yes, this book is really pretty terrible.
However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a lot of fun. It’s sloppy. It’s gory. It’s stuffed to the gills with stereotypical characters written just to get mauled by the flying insects and a ridiculous amount of pointless, explicit sex. It’s got every single cliche this creature feature genre employs, and it never once gives anything new to set it aside from others of its ilk.
And yet, since I’m a purveyor of this kind of garbage, I freaking loved every minute of it. If you want your animal horror to be campy and so bad it’s good, look no further.
In no way, shape, or form is Killer Flies really that “good”. In fact, it’s probably more along the lines of “trash” than anything…but oh what glorious trash it is.
Yes, this is pretty much a blatant rip off of Daniel’s Gila (right down to the New Mexico setting) and only replacing the titular giant poisonous lizards with titular giant poisonous flies, and yes, this book is really pretty terrible.
However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a lot of fun. It’s sloppy. It’s gory. It’s stuffed to the gills with stereotypical characters written just to get mauled by the flying insects and a ridiculous amount of pointless, explicit sex. It’s got every single cliche this creature feature genre employs, and it never once gives anything new to set it aside from others of its ilk.
And yet, since I’m a purveyor of this kind of garbage, I freaking loved every minute of it. If you want your animal horror to be campy and so bad it’s good, look no further.
May 1, 2024
If I didn't know better, I would have guessed this to be penned by Guy N. Smith under a different name. Pretty much the same style and filling to a Guy story. Just tweaked a little. It had its ups and downs. One thing I can never understand in these books is when a loved one is lost, in this case a woman loses her young daughter to the killer flies, hardly any time elapses and she's making carefree love like nothing has happened.
A truck carrying genetically modified flies has an accident and said flies' escape. They start a killing rampage. The authorities spray them with chemicals only to mutate them more. So, there are 3-foot flies buzzing about. It's up to a threesome, and I use that term literally to destroy the killer insects before the powers that be spray even more chemicals on them that may not work but will kill the population of a town.
A truck carrying genetically modified flies has an accident and said flies' escape. They start a killing rampage. The authorities spray them with chemicals only to mutate them more. So, there are 3-foot flies buzzing about. It's up to a threesome, and I use that term literally to destroy the killer insects before the powers that be spray even more chemicals on them that may not work but will kill the population of a town.
February 2, 2022
A truck plowing into a cow, the truck overturned spewing its cargo, scattered over the road and down a cliff. Black swarms alive with menace. Flies devour a horse then move onto a poor innocent child trying to protect her horse. The flies proboscis sucking into the sensitive tissue of the eyes as blood spurting through fingers trying to protect. The flies with a hypnotic way of hovering over its prey. Flies devour everything a man's dong will be consumed. They will grow as large as two feet and wipe out a small town.
February 2, 2021
Where do I begin with this....
I cannot believe a women wrote this. I really cannot. If I hadn't looked at 'Mark Kendall's goodreads page I would have never known it was a women writers alias. And knowing that a women wrote this.... makes it even worse.
Now normally I try to be somewhat nice in my reviews because I wasn't always in my past and I have grown and learned. BUUUUT. I just can't with this book, so if I sound like a jerk... so fucking be it. Because FUCK this.
Here are all the reasons I hated this book.
THIS could have been AMAZING, killer flies? FUCK YEAH. The way they swarm down on you and eat you alive? FANTASTIC, I am ALL here for this! But they were so bland. I didn't care at all that people were dying and it seemed like the killer flies were written in the most basic way. It just didn't hold that terrifying thrill I normally get from books like this.
The main characters were garbage. The mom who lost her daughter just didn't seem to actually care at all and she got over it REALLY quickly. As for the man that tags around with her, he is utter trash. TRASH. So maybe if they would have not been the main focus I could have enjoyed the book but the sexist over sexualized bullshit put an end to that.
Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger
........why are we talking about her BREASTS when she is looking for her lost child? Gross.
He stared at the SLENDER blue jeaned figure.
While shes rocking her childs dead body the author thought it was important to point out how slender she was? For real?
Shortly after her daughter died this man she is on the verge of dating literally asks in the most nonchallant way "You going to be okay?" What the fuck? NO! Her child was brutally murdered, WHY WOULD SHE BE OKAY?! I mean she is acting pretty okay buuuuut that comes down to the author not being able to write grief scenes well.
Does none of that sound to bad? OKAY, because it gets worse. THE DAY AFTER her daughter died, these two go to the hospital and the officer on the case is a DOUCHEBAG to a greiving mom but then her beloved man companion.... does this shit.
he watched a nurse swaying down the hall, and for a moment he allowed the sweet rhythm of her hips to comfort him
Her kid is dead and this man is at the hospital finding comfort in the SWEET RHYTHM of a nurses hips? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
They also bone pretty quickly DIRECTLY after the mom is bawling about her dead kid. Now, grief is weird, so that could happen, but it just seemed like really bad timing.
And it wasn't just these two characters that bothered me, nobody was likable even in the slightest. In another scene a man walked into a diner and when asked how things were going he says,
Gas is too high my wife is too fat -- other then that things are fine.
Let me remind you, a women wrote this shit.
This is the type of bullshit I expect from a sex crazed man who has naked posters of women all over the place and believes he is superior to the sweet gentle women of the world. Not a women.
And after the crap writing, the crap over sexualized bullshit, etc.etc.etc.etc.
I finally DNFd after a 3 year old was killed.
There is no point in killing off innocent toddlers for shock factor. If the book was really well written I may be able to excuse that, although super heartbreaking and way to close to my personal life having twin two year olds.... but no. Inexcusable to include in this riffraff of a book.
Sorry. NOT fucking sorry.
I cannot believe a women wrote this. I really cannot. If I hadn't looked at 'Mark Kendall's goodreads page I would have never known it was a women writers alias. And knowing that a women wrote this.... makes it even worse.
Now normally I try to be somewhat nice in my reviews because I wasn't always in my past and I have grown and learned. BUUUUT. I just can't with this book, so if I sound like a jerk... so fucking be it. Because FUCK this.
Here are all the reasons I hated this book.
THIS could have been AMAZING, killer flies? FUCK YEAH. The way they swarm down on you and eat you alive? FANTASTIC, I am ALL here for this! But they were so bland. I didn't care at all that people were dying and it seemed like the killer flies were written in the most basic way. It just didn't hold that terrifying thrill I normally get from books like this.
The main characters were garbage. The mom who lost her daughter just didn't seem to actually care at all and she got over it REALLY quickly. As for the man that tags around with her, he is utter trash. TRASH. So maybe if they would have not been the main focus I could have enjoyed the book but the sexist over sexualized bullshit put an end to that.
Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger
........why are we talking about her BREASTS when she is looking for her lost child? Gross.
He stared at the SLENDER blue jeaned figure.
While shes rocking her childs dead body the author thought it was important to point out how slender she was? For real?
Shortly after her daughter died this man she is on the verge of dating literally asks in the most nonchallant way "You going to be okay?" What the fuck? NO! Her child was brutally murdered, WHY WOULD SHE BE OKAY?! I mean she is acting pretty okay buuuuut that comes down to the author not being able to write grief scenes well.
Does none of that sound to bad? OKAY, because it gets worse. THE DAY AFTER her daughter died, these two go to the hospital and the officer on the case is a DOUCHEBAG to a greiving mom but then her beloved man companion.... does this shit.
he watched a nurse swaying down the hall, and for a moment he allowed the sweet rhythm of her hips to comfort him
Her kid is dead and this man is at the hospital finding comfort in the SWEET RHYTHM of a nurses hips? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
They also bone pretty quickly DIRECTLY after the mom is bawling about her dead kid. Now, grief is weird, so that could happen, but it just seemed like really bad timing.
And it wasn't just these two characters that bothered me, nobody was likable even in the slightest. In another scene a man walked into a diner and when asked how things were going he says,
Gas is too high my wife is too fat -- other then that things are fine.
Let me remind you, a women wrote this shit.
This is the type of bullshit I expect from a sex crazed man who has naked posters of women all over the place and believes he is superior to the sweet gentle women of the world. Not a women.
And after the crap writing, the crap over sexualized bullshit, etc.etc.etc.etc.
I finally DNFd after a 3 year old was killed.
There is no point in killing off innocent toddlers for shock factor. If the book was really well written I may be able to excuse that, although super heartbreaking and way to close to my personal life having twin two year olds.... but no. Inexcusable to include in this riffraff of a book.
Sorry. NOT fucking sorry.
January 3, 2020
How did I not know about this book? Carnivorous flies, created by a scientist at Los Alamos, feasting on Santa Fe Opera fans, the New Mexico Governor's family, lowriders, and cute little kids too. There was a whole lot of probing and throbbing going on, and not just among the flies. A masterpiece of schlock horror with a little sex and sci-fi thrown in for good measure.
March 29, 2015
I'm currently obsessed with collecting old horror books with bad cover art so obviously this book was perfect. They would introduce new characters and then immediately have them get eaten by flies, I love it!
May 3, 2022
Review to come
June 28, 2023
Being a fan of eco-horror, when I saw this on Amazon, I just had to get it, and as soon as it came in, I dove right in. Sadly, it was all buzz, no bite.
I was hoping this would be more 1950s giant bug movies and less The Asylum SyFy feature films, but SyFy is what I got from the very beginning. It starts off with a cargo truck crashing and unleashing its cargo, which turns out to be... You guessed it from the title... Killer Flies. But even the worst SyFy movie is more believable than this.
Next to the driver, the first victim of the deadly insects is a little girl, left home alone while her mother goes cavorting into town with her beau. So right off, Sherry, a nobody widowed rancher, isn't going to be nominated for Mother of the Year, yet the author made the weird decision to make her the heroine. Kathy Littlebird (with a name like that, she should have been Native American, but like with so many bad choices the author has made, she isn't), the local reporter, would be a more likely lead character, but after a brief appearance, she's relegated to the background until the third act. Rounding out the cast is the hired hand/love interest, the bully cop who treats everything like it needs to be covered up, the local politician with big Washington dreams, and a very unscientific government scientist.
So back to the story... Sherry is so distraught (not really, but the author says she is, so let's go with it), she vows revenge on whoever or whatever killed her daughter. With the way the sheriff treats her, you'd think he already has some idea as to what's going on, but he's just as clueless as everybody else. The reporter is given the first clue as to what's going on when she investigates a crashed eighteen-wheeler, the driver of which is a runaway teen who, before she dies, mumbles, "Rosebud." Not really, she mumbles the word flies, along with the cryptic message that they killed everybody. Who's everybody? Well, it's the diner full of people that never seem to be discovered because they're never mentioned again. In fact, even though the flies are leaving a trail of bodies, it doesn't seem like any of them are being discovered until the 2,000 people are killed while attending an outdoor opera performance. The reporter is conveniently "dating" the doctor who oversaw the truck driver's body arriving at the hospital, who conveniently knows a government scientist who happens to might be doing work related to the fly attacks. But rather than the reporter and the doctor investigating, it's like they'd rather be fooling around instead of getting to the bottom of things, and Littlebird calls her BFF Sherry and lets her know what she's found out. So Sherry and her hired ranch hand/lover (unbelievably) waltz into the government lab, threaten to make a scene unless they can see the unscientific scientist, and then they're conveniently escorted to see said scientist, who doesn't seem to have a problem spilling his guts. It just gets more far-fetched from there, from the unnecessary sex scenes (because everybody has time to fool around when faced with hordes of man-eating flies, and Sherry, who already has a lover, yet falls in love and sleeps with the scientist [in a matter of days]) that only serve to slow the progression of the story to the unlikely discovery by--You guessed it--Sherry on how to kill the flies (but the author even gets this wrong). I think the funniest thing, though, is Hutch, Sherry's stud, who knows what they're dealing with, running around with a shotgun as if that's the ideal weapon to battle flies.
The book is one misstep after another. It's like the author saw movies like this when he (she, I found out the author is actually a woman) was a kid and only had a vague memory of what actually happened. There was no attempt to verify the "scientific facts" presented in the book, which just makes it all the more laughable. So if you're looking for thrilling eco-horror, keep looking, because this ain't it, which is unfortunate. Sigh. Such high hopes dashed upon the rocks. Oh well... Better luck next time.
I was hoping this would be more 1950s giant bug movies and less The Asylum SyFy feature films, but SyFy is what I got from the very beginning. It starts off with a cargo truck crashing and unleashing its cargo, which turns out to be... You guessed it from the title... Killer Flies. But even the worst SyFy movie is more believable than this.
Next to the driver, the first victim of the deadly insects is a little girl, left home alone while her mother goes cavorting into town with her beau. So right off, Sherry, a nobody widowed rancher, isn't going to be nominated for Mother of the Year, yet the author made the weird decision to make her the heroine. Kathy Littlebird (with a name like that, she should have been Native American, but like with so many bad choices the author has made, she isn't), the local reporter, would be a more likely lead character, but after a brief appearance, she's relegated to the background until the third act. Rounding out the cast is the hired hand/love interest, the bully cop who treats everything like it needs to be covered up, the local politician with big Washington dreams, and a very unscientific government scientist.
So back to the story... Sherry is so distraught (not really, but the author says she is, so let's go with it), she vows revenge on whoever or whatever killed her daughter. With the way the sheriff treats her, you'd think he already has some idea as to what's going on, but he's just as clueless as everybody else. The reporter is given the first clue as to what's going on when she investigates a crashed eighteen-wheeler, the driver of which is a runaway teen who, before she dies, mumbles, "Rosebud." Not really, she mumbles the word flies, along with the cryptic message that they killed everybody. Who's everybody? Well, it's the diner full of people that never seem to be discovered because they're never mentioned again. In fact, even though the flies are leaving a trail of bodies, it doesn't seem like any of them are being discovered until the 2,000 people are killed while attending an outdoor opera performance. The reporter is conveniently "dating" the doctor who oversaw the truck driver's body arriving at the hospital, who conveniently knows a government scientist who happens to might be doing work related to the fly attacks. But rather than the reporter and the doctor investigating, it's like they'd rather be fooling around instead of getting to the bottom of things, and Littlebird calls her BFF Sherry and lets her know what she's found out. So Sherry and her hired ranch hand/lover (unbelievably) waltz into the government lab, threaten to make a scene unless they can see the unscientific scientist, and then they're conveniently escorted to see said scientist, who doesn't seem to have a problem spilling his guts. It just gets more far-fetched from there, from the unnecessary sex scenes (because everybody has time to fool around when faced with hordes of man-eating flies, and Sherry, who already has a lover, yet falls in love and sleeps with the scientist [in a matter of days]) that only serve to slow the progression of the story to the unlikely discovery by--You guessed it--Sherry on how to kill the flies (but the author even gets this wrong). I think the funniest thing, though, is Hutch, Sherry's stud, who knows what they're dealing with, running around with a shotgun as if that's the ideal weapon to battle flies.
The book is one misstep after another. It's like the author saw movies like this when he (she, I found out the author is actually a woman) was a kid and only had a vague memory of what actually happened. There was no attempt to verify the "scientific facts" presented in the book, which just makes it all the more laughable. So if you're looking for thrilling eco-horror, keep looking, because this ain't it, which is unfortunate. Sigh. Such high hopes dashed upon the rocks. Oh well... Better luck next time.
May 20, 2025
What a fun read! I bought this book because of that awesome cover art (not credited) and I’ve been wanting to get back into reading horror, especially 70s and 80s horror, during the heyday of horror paperbacks. This book wasn’t disappointing. Mark Kendall is a pseudonym of Melinda Snodgrass, who is most known for writing several Star Trek: The Next Generation teleplays and co-editing and writing stories for the Wild Cards series of anthologies with George R. R. Martin.
Killer Flies is campy and filled with much of what you’d expect from an 80s horror paperback—lots of gore and sex. The book falls within the “When Animals Attack” and eco-horror subgenres of horror. The plot is very similar to the movie, Pirahna (1978), which I watched in the midst of reading this book. Just substitute killer flies for pirahnas. It’s a well-done, yet derivative story, but was supremely satisfying. It’s a rather short read at just over 150 pages, but I prefer that in novels rather than giant doorstops. I read a 1st printing original, but the book is in print again from Encyclopocalypse Publications (and as an ebook and audiobook).
I’ve read some negative reviews about the sexual dynamics between the male and female characters, but the book feels very cinematic, like an 80s horror movie (which often featured T&A). And the main character is a strong woman. There is also a secondary character, a woman journalist, who is also the second strongest character in the book. The primary men in the story can be fickle, although they do stand up when needed. Otherwise, the remaining men in the story are vain, duplicitous, and downright bastards.
Killer Flies is campy and filled with much of what you’d expect from an 80s horror paperback—lots of gore and sex. The book falls within the “When Animals Attack” and eco-horror subgenres of horror. The plot is very similar to the movie, Pirahna (1978), which I watched in the midst of reading this book. Just substitute killer flies for pirahnas. It’s a well-done, yet derivative story, but was supremely satisfying. It’s a rather short read at just over 150 pages, but I prefer that in novels rather than giant doorstops. I read a 1st printing original, but the book is in print again from Encyclopocalypse Publications (and as an ebook and audiobook).
I’ve read some negative reviews about the sexual dynamics between the male and female characters, but the book feels very cinematic, like an 80s horror movie (which often featured T&A). And the main character is a strong woman. There is also a secondary character, a woman journalist, who is also the second strongest character in the book. The primary men in the story can be fickle, although they do stand up when needed. Otherwise, the remaining men in the story are vain, duplicitous, and downright bastards.
January 14, 2024
"review" of the audio book edition:
I do love a good horror novel, unfortunately this was not it. I have quite a bit of mileage in 70s and 80s horror, especially in the creature feature genre, and this was by far the worst I have read/endured. Bad dialogue. More (plot) holes than a fishing net, flat characters, Huch only personality trait is "masculinity", Sherry keeps shifting between being a damsel in distress and a badass. The human villains are cartoonishly evil. None of the people in the book is likable nor engaging.
The story is quite disjointed, abrupt leaps and cuts that keeps the reader/listener confused. As well as characters being introduced and forgotten about..... like, what happened to the journalist?? On the whole, pretty badly written, example I cannot unread this, so now you have to read it: "Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger", I ain't no geologist, but I am pretty sure that's not how breasts work
If I had a dollar for every time "proboscises" was used, well, then I could buy a couple of copies of the book, which I really don't need
It really frustrates me considering the author has written one of the best Star Trek: TNG episodes... what some people will do to survive.
On the positive note:
Sean Duregger delivers a good narration and the cover art is pretty good.
For me this is a good example of how not to write a book.
I do love a good horror novel, unfortunately this was not it. I have quite a bit of mileage in 70s and 80s horror, especially in the creature feature genre, and this was by far the worst I have read/endured. Bad dialogue. More (plot) holes than a fishing net, flat characters, Huch only personality trait is "masculinity", Sherry keeps shifting between being a damsel in distress and a badass. The human villains are cartoonishly evil. None of the people in the book is likable nor engaging.
The story is quite disjointed, abrupt leaps and cuts that keeps the reader/listener confused. As well as characters being introduced and forgotten about..... like, what happened to the journalist?? On the whole, pretty badly written, example I cannot unread this, so now you have to read it: "Her breasts beneath the thin material of her blouse rose and fell with fear and anger", I ain't no geologist, but I am pretty sure that's not how breasts work
If I had a dollar for every time "proboscises" was used, well, then I could buy a couple of copies of the book, which I really don't need
It really frustrates me considering the author has written one of the best Star Trek: TNG episodes... what some people will do to survive.
On the positive note:
Sean Duregger delivers a good narration and the cover art is pretty good.
For me this is a good example of how not to write a book.
May 12, 2022
Perfectly cheesy 80's writing full of cliches and awkward, cringe-worthy interactions.
April 30, 2022
I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book was a pleasant surprise. There were parts of it that I wanted to laugh out loud but it was told in such a way that it freaked me out as well. There are some images with the flies that I don’t think I will ever forget. This would make a great movie! It reminds me of something I would’ve seen in the 80s, which makes sense because I believe the book was written in the 80s. Definitely worth your time. There’s a lot of bloodshed and a lot of fly mayhem. There is a current of hopelessness that flows throughout the whole story. How can the flies be stopped? It seems so hopeless! This hopelessness adds to the story in my opinion. Just how will the characters manage to make it out alive? Truly entertaining stuff.
This book was a pleasant surprise. There were parts of it that I wanted to laugh out loud but it was told in such a way that it freaked me out as well. There are some images with the flies that I don’t think I will ever forget. This would make a great movie! It reminds me of something I would’ve seen in the 80s, which makes sense because I believe the book was written in the 80s. Definitely worth your time. There’s a lot of bloodshed and a lot of fly mayhem. There is a current of hopelessness that flows throughout the whole story. How can the flies be stopped? It seems so hopeless! This hopelessness adds to the story in my opinion. Just how will the characters manage to make it out alive? Truly entertaining stuff.
May 14, 2022
Encyclopocalypse Publications has done something fantastic in bringing this classic piece of 1980s animal horror back to life. Capitalizing on the fears of the nuclear age--of science gone wrong--Mark Kendall penned this exciting tale of deadly, swarming flies descending on the unexpecting people of New Mexico.
From the moment the truck transporting the load of genetically modified flies crashes until the clamorous conclusion, we witness close-up accounts of people, pets, and livestock as they run afoul of the insect menace. Scientific hubris, myopic politicians, and a wholly unprecedented threat combine to create a perfect storm for the horrors to unfold in the worst way possible.
At the core of the story, a mother's desire for revenge propels us along a reckless path amid the devastating events scattered throughout the tale. New faces appear only to be summarily devoured and left as a bloody pulp by the devouring proboscises of the flies.
Sean Duregger is at the top of his narration game, lending each character their own distinctive voice, breathing life into even the most minuscule roles within the story.
From the moment the truck transporting the load of genetically modified flies crashes until the clamorous conclusion, we witness close-up accounts of people, pets, and livestock as they run afoul of the insect menace. Scientific hubris, myopic politicians, and a wholly unprecedented threat combine to create a perfect storm for the horrors to unfold in the worst way possible.
At the core of the story, a mother's desire for revenge propels us along a reckless path amid the devastating events scattered throughout the tale. New faces appear only to be summarily devoured and left as a bloody pulp by the devouring proboscises of the flies.
Sean Duregger is at the top of his narration game, lending each character their own distinctive voice, breathing life into even the most minuscule roles within the story.
April 13, 2022
I narrated this, so I'm a bit biased...but this book is BONKERS. Oozing with '80s grim....BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1983...it's pretty obvious the author (a pseudonym of Melinda Snodgrass) wrote this as a legit entry into this crazy genre...but also as a spoof of the genre and lurid paperbacks altogether.
Sure, this book would probably not see the light of day today, but it's a fun peek into the insanity of the '80s and the possibility of KILLER FLIES! LOL!
Sure, this book would probably not see the light of day today, but it's a fun peek into the insanity of the '80s and the possibility of KILLER FLIES! LOL!
February 14, 2021
Ugh. This book needs some editing. Entertaining concept, but suffers from errors and a bit of 80's viewpoints.
May 19, 2022
When Sherry Quinn discovers her daughter dead from an animal attack her grief is quickly replaced by the terror that the child will be far from the last. Alongside her ranch hand, Hutch Eegels, they discover a cloud of killer mutant flies hungry for living flesh.
They team up with a discredited scientist and hunt down the swarm, only to find the government are not as agreeable to their actions as they hoped, putting them at odds with the army and the local police, as well as the masses of carnivorous flying horrors.
Mark Kendall's Killer Flies is in no way a classic horror tale. In fact a great many literary offenses could be leveled against the book. Its derivative, and somewhat predictable. It uses what could be considered stock characters, and is rather glib at times regarding the demise of said characters. Sherry's behavior after the death of her only child is more than a little questionable, and her relationship between the scientist and Hutch raises more than the occasional eyebrow, but...
If you are in the mood for a rip-roaring, and somewhat dumb-but-fun adventure with a side of cheese and gore, you could do far worse. Its one of those books (in audio form, performed by the always reliable Sean Duregger) that I found to be shamefully unputdownable, being drawn back to it again and again even though I knew I had far more quality conscious books to get through.
It is undeniably important that a writer learns some skill in writing, if they intend to write professionally. It is also certainly important that some effort is made to create a world that is original and has characters that are compelling and unique. But its also important that a book entertains, and - I'm not sure if this is an unfortunate truth or not - quality of writing and originality of work are not essential to the completed work actually being entertaining, and ultimately I will always prefer pure entertainment to literary skill on almost any day of the week.
I realize this admission may say a lot about me that is not exactly glowing, but I suspect its true of most people. Killer Flies may not be an original work, and the writing may not show a great deal of skill, but it does the one thing that many greater books often do not achieve, it entertains from cover to cover, and leaves behind the knowledge that you'll probably listen to it again at some point.
Though you may pretend you're reading something else when you do.
I decided to read this book based on nothing but the cover, and the fact that Sean Duregger was performing it, and I'm glad I did. If you like the performer (and if you don't what is wrong with you?) and the cover brings a sinister smile to your face then read (or listen to) it, I think it likely you'll like it as much as I did.
Even through all the eye rolls and cringe.
They team up with a discredited scientist and hunt down the swarm, only to find the government are not as agreeable to their actions as they hoped, putting them at odds with the army and the local police, as well as the masses of carnivorous flying horrors.
Mark Kendall's Killer Flies is in no way a classic horror tale. In fact a great many literary offenses could be leveled against the book. Its derivative, and somewhat predictable. It uses what could be considered stock characters, and is rather glib at times regarding the demise of said characters. Sherry's behavior after the death of her only child is more than a little questionable, and her relationship between the scientist and Hutch raises more than the occasional eyebrow, but...
If you are in the mood for a rip-roaring, and somewhat dumb-but-fun adventure with a side of cheese and gore, you could do far worse. Its one of those books (in audio form, performed by the always reliable Sean Duregger) that I found to be shamefully unputdownable, being drawn back to it again and again even though I knew I had far more quality conscious books to get through.
It is undeniably important that a writer learns some skill in writing, if they intend to write professionally. It is also certainly important that some effort is made to create a world that is original and has characters that are compelling and unique. But its also important that a book entertains, and - I'm not sure if this is an unfortunate truth or not - quality of writing and originality of work are not essential to the completed work actually being entertaining, and ultimately I will always prefer pure entertainment to literary skill on almost any day of the week.
I realize this admission may say a lot about me that is not exactly glowing, but I suspect its true of most people. Killer Flies may not be an original work, and the writing may not show a great deal of skill, but it does the one thing that many greater books often do not achieve, it entertains from cover to cover, and leaves behind the knowledge that you'll probably listen to it again at some point.
Though you may pretend you're reading something else when you do.
I decided to read this book based on nothing but the cover, and the fact that Sean Duregger was performing it, and I'm glad I did. If you like the performer (and if you don't what is wrong with you?) and the cover brings a sinister smile to your face then read (or listen to) it, I think it likely you'll like it as much as I did.
Even through all the eye rolls and cringe.
December 22, 2022
Originally published in the book blog Creature From the Book Lagoon.
*Trigger Warning: Animal death, kid death, talk of rape.
Killer Flies has been on my TBR pile for a while! I looooooooove me some crazy killer bugs!! 😀 I was very excited when I found this book as an audiobook at the library! WHAT the WHAT??? Awesome. 😀
This book is BANANAS!! Hahaha…. The author does not hold back on anything. Geez. Lots of insane fly carnage. Animals, Kids, adults, old people… does not matter! These flies caught them all! There are plenty of EWWWWWWWWWW gross out moments to enjoy, lots of blood, death, and destruction.
Killer Flies is a very quick, fun book to fly (heh) through. Very entertaining. It also has some really ridiculous moments that just leave you shaking your head at the insanity- totally in a good way! You can absolutely play a drinking game with how many times the author uses the word “proboscis”. 😮
Another great example is how the main female character’s kid literally just died, yet the majority of the book she just goes on and ON and on about how she is in love with two guys (one of whom she just meets!) and then has sex with both guys a few times. 😮 Top priorities with this one….
The narrator is alright. A little bit of variety between male voices, but the women all sounded so simular. Kids just sounded down right terrible. D: His accents are ok. He gets the job done fine.
I enjoyed the quick pace and all the fly annihilation! The ending is a little anti-climatic and there are several unintentionally hilarious moments. Killer Flies may not be the greatest killer bug book out there, but it is still a fun read / listen. 🙂
*Trigger Warning: Animal death, kid death, talk of rape.
Killer Flies has been on my TBR pile for a while! I looooooooove me some crazy killer bugs!! 😀 I was very excited when I found this book as an audiobook at the library! WHAT the WHAT??? Awesome. 😀
This book is BANANAS!! Hahaha…. The author does not hold back on anything. Geez. Lots of insane fly carnage. Animals, Kids, adults, old people… does not matter! These flies caught them all! There are plenty of EWWWWWWWWWW gross out moments to enjoy, lots of blood, death, and destruction.
Killer Flies is a very quick, fun book to fly (heh) through. Very entertaining. It also has some really ridiculous moments that just leave you shaking your head at the insanity- totally in a good way! You can absolutely play a drinking game with how many times the author uses the word “proboscis”. 😮
Another great example is how the main female character’s kid literally just died, yet the majority of the book she just goes on and ON and on about how she is in love with two guys (one of whom she just meets!) and then has sex with both guys a few times. 😮 Top priorities with this one….
The narrator is alright. A little bit of variety between male voices, but the women all sounded so simular. Kids just sounded down right terrible. D: His accents are ok. He gets the job done fine.
I enjoyed the quick pace and all the fly annihilation! The ending is a little anti-climatic and there are several unintentionally hilarious moments. Killer Flies may not be the greatest killer bug book out there, but it is still a fun read / listen. 🙂
August 2, 2024
I enjoy schlocky horror. As such, I'm pretty forgiving with most tales that are--very clearly--trying to be super over-the-top and flat out fun. Unfortunately, "Killer Flies" is just... bad.
I'm willing to overlook a lot of narrative deficiencies if a story is well written. Here, the wording is repetitive and dull, and there are a surprising number of grammar issues (especially for something brought to print by a publisher). We're talking double periods, misspelled words, missing punctuation, etc. The errors aren't overwhelming, but they're persistent enough to be distracting.
The story itself is okay enough, but it's poorly paced and the characters are thinly sketched. Genetically engineered flies are accidentally released when a truck transporting them crashes in the New Mexico desert, and the mother of a child who is gruesomely eaten by the insects steps up to save the day. But wait! There's also a weird love triangle that unfolds, and the author uses this as an excuse to work in paragraphs that I can only imagine are characteristic of the trashiest romance novels. It's dumb and works against the pacing of the story (which, again, is already abrupt and stilted).
Oh, and the there are moments of jarring misogyny peppered throughout the book. It's even grosser than the maimed victims of the murderous flies.
The only reason I'm not giving this one star is because I actually finished it. There were a couple of times where I almost abandoned the book altogether, but it's short enough--and had just enough horror entertainment--to propel me through to the end.
Overall, though, this isn't worth your time. There are better horror tales out there (or, at least, stories that are much better written).
I'm willing to overlook a lot of narrative deficiencies if a story is well written. Here, the wording is repetitive and dull, and there are a surprising number of grammar issues (especially for something brought to print by a publisher). We're talking double periods, misspelled words, missing punctuation, etc. The errors aren't overwhelming, but they're persistent enough to be distracting.
The story itself is okay enough, but it's poorly paced and the characters are thinly sketched. Genetically engineered flies are accidentally released when a truck transporting them crashes in the New Mexico desert, and the mother of a child who is gruesomely eaten by the insects steps up to save the day. But wait! There's also a weird love triangle that unfolds, and the author uses this as an excuse to work in paragraphs that I can only imagine are characteristic of the trashiest romance novels. It's dumb and works against the pacing of the story (which, again, is already abrupt and stilted).
Oh, and the there are moments of jarring misogyny peppered throughout the book. It's even grosser than the maimed victims of the murderous flies.
The only reason I'm not giving this one star is because I actually finished it. There were a couple of times where I almost abandoned the book altogether, but it's short enough--and had just enough horror entertainment--to propel me through to the end.
Overall, though, this isn't worth your time. There are better horror tales out there (or, at least, stories that are much better written).
April 22, 2022
Not my favorite!
I didn’t care for this story. Some of the plots thrown in the middle of the book didn’t seem to fit within the overall storyline. Such as the love triangle that basically had nothing to do with the storyline. There was the reporter and a couple other random characters that I felt could have played a much stronger role in this story.
IMO, The narration was good but also not my favorite. I’m a huge Sean Duregger fan but for some reason this story wasn’t able to showcase his true voice acting talents.
Overall this story didn’t work for me, but this is only my opinion. I encourage anyone who might be interested to give it a try and draw your own conclusions.
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I didn’t care for this story. Some of the plots thrown in the middle of the book didn’t seem to fit within the overall storyline. Such as the love triangle that basically had nothing to do with the storyline. There was the reporter and a couple other random characters that I felt could have played a much stronger role in this story.
IMO, The narration was good but also not my favorite. I’m a huge Sean Duregger fan but for some reason this story wasn’t able to showcase his true voice acting talents.
Overall this story didn’t work for me, but this is only my opinion. I encourage anyone who might be interested to give it a try and draw your own conclusions.
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December 20, 2023
What can I say, sometimes you just want to read something you know won't be good. It's the literary equivalent of eating a gas station hotdog. Thankfully this is short and to the point - padding is the Achilles' heel of horror paperbacks - but that's about it. The fly attacks are plentiful, but they're neither creative nor evocative. There are enough adverbs to make a creative writing professor screech, the characters have no depth (which leads to cringe-inducing sexism and racial stereotyping), there's a painfully dumb Deus Ex Machina ending, and a zillion other infractions. I knew what I was getting into with a horror novel with a 3-star average on here, though, so I can't exactly say I was disappointed.
June 14, 2022
This is truly a wild ride! It gives all the outrageous 80s B Movie vibes you can expect and then some! And narrated by Sean Duregger is the bonus you definitely want going into this... I know my rating would be lower without his added entertainment value as well as just keeping me engaged throughout the whole book. So I definitely encourage the audiobook!
August 3, 2022
This was a fun, "B Rated", 80s creature feature. This from the beginning had some great shocking scenes. Like all "B Rated" movies there is a lot of sex. I think the ending was pretty abrupt.
I listened to this on audible and thought the narrator did a great job. All the characters were distinct and had a good flow.
Overall, I enjoyed this and it was worth the time to read.
I listened to this on audible and thought the narrator did a great job. All the characters were distinct and had a good flow.
Overall, I enjoyed this and it was worth the time to read.
January 14, 2021
Maybe my expectations were a tad high for a book called “Killer Flies,” but this wasn’t even fun in a trashy way. To top it all off, there were so many typos and formatting errors in this reprint, I felt like I was reading a first draft. Doesn’t anybody proofread anymore?
October 1, 2021
A fun quick read in which mutant flies ravage the New Mexico countryside. With plenty of deaths this book delivers what you want but don't go expecting anything that resembles authentic people or even grammar as any form of proofreading (or even editing) was clearly deemed unnecessary.
July 20, 2024
Mediocre, and Sherry was a F*cking B*tch!
August 18, 2024
Very typical animal attack books with all the highs of animal carnage and all the lows of questionable politics.
This one starts super strong and goes by super quick.
This one starts super strong and goes by super quick.
February 13, 2025
bloodsucking flies swarm
repetitive gore attacks
I kind of loved this
repetitive gore attacks
I kind of loved this
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