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Pig: A Tale of Survival Horror
Pointvilla...
A quiet town, the kind of place old folk go to watch the sea roll in and the years roll out. The kind of place guys like the man in the pig mask can make an easy dime, or an easy killing.
An ancient entity...
An inhuman intelligence crawls up the shore and sprawls over Pointvilla. A thing capable of stealing bodies, and drawing minds into one, into it - the MIND. An intelligence pulling Pig Mask inward as others swirl around Pig himself, like he's a planet, a force, and the rest are drawn by gravity.
Brothers...
Ray and Bill are kin. The entity might understand loneliness, and the drive to consume and kill and torment...but it doesn't understand brothers and sisters. It doesn't understand siblings. Some people are tied together by more than blood.
In a town at one with the Mind, survival comes down to brothers and sisters and old dudes with a penchant for good weed.
A quiet town, the kind of place old folk go to watch the sea roll in and the years roll out. The kind of place guys like the man in the pig mask can make an easy dime, or an easy killing.
An ancient entity...
An inhuman intelligence crawls up the shore and sprawls over Pointvilla. A thing capable of stealing bodies, and drawing minds into one, into it - the MIND. An intelligence pulling Pig Mask inward as others swirl around Pig himself, like he's a planet, a force, and the rest are drawn by gravity.
Brothers...
Ray and Bill are kin. The entity might understand loneliness, and the drive to consume and kill and torment...but it doesn't understand brothers and sisters. It doesn't understand siblings. Some people are tied together by more than blood.
In a town at one with the Mind, survival comes down to brothers and sisters and old dudes with a penchant for good weed.
- GenresHorror
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Published October 4, 2017
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About the author
Craig Saunders
69 books72 followersCraig Saunders is the author of over thirty novels and novellas, including 'Masters of Blood and Bone', 'RAIN' and 'Deadlift'. He writes across many genres, but horror and fantasy (the 'Rythe' tales) are his favourites.
Craig lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children, likes nice people and good coffee. Find out more on Amazon, or visit:
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Craig lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children, likes nice people and good coffee. Find out more on Amazon, or visit:
www.craigrsaunders.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/craigrsaundersauthor
www.twitter.com/Grumblesprout
A little aside - I don't visit GR often, but I'm always available on Twitter or the FB page. I apologise in advance if it takes a while for me to answer a question here!
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July 11, 2017
This fast-moving novel begins with a robbery. One of the raiders wears a pig mask, and is aptly named Pig. His sister, Gopher, is in on the plan, and she also wears a mask. Not once in the story do these masks come off. We are introduced to another accomplice, Ray, who remains mask-free and is attempting to help out his paralyzed brother. Ray attempts to escape from Pig after things go south during the robbery. In the meantime, Pig has gone through some transformations. Something fishy is going on in the little seaside town of Pointvilla. Drugs are involved. There are burning bodies on the beach, and one of them is talking. Enter The Mind, a formidable entity. The Mind wants to unite the residents of the small town in its own peculiar and grotesque ways. The "infection" spreads, and while the residents of Pointvilla become part of a huge monster mash, Ray desperately searches for his brother. This is an entertaining, mind-expanding horror novel with colorful characters and a creative resolution.
As a disclosure, I am online friends with one of the the authors, and I received a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.
As a disclosure, I am online friends with one of the the authors, and I received a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.
February 21, 2018
Pig is a collaboration between horror novelists Edward Lorn and Craig Saunders that's one wish is to entertain its reader quickly. What starts off as a heist gone sour immediately escalates into a fight for survival as a seaside town falls prey to a sentient contagion that turns it victims into bipedal gastropods controlled by a greedy hive-mind. Between our two authors, we have a cast of foul-mouthed eccentrics that pop on the page, whether they are sibling psychopaths who prefer to wear a pig and a gopher mask, or a geriatric stoner willing to rise to the occasion in the face of extinction. Even the omnipresent personality of our authors' sluggish threat is relayed to the reader with elan. So fast-paced is the introduction of characters and incident that there is hardly time for a reader to linger long enough for any of it to resonate. But even though the reader may be rushed to the ending, at least its an interesting one as our besieged protagonists fight back in an offbeat manner. A fizzy creature feature that marries the thrills of a Dean Koontz novel (circa 1980s) with the profanity of a Garth Ennis comic book, Pig goes best with a bag of popcorn and a strong stomach.
July 27, 2017
A botched burglary, kidnapping, a crazed pig mask-wearing killer, and a strange creature that has washed upon the shore of Pointvilla - what more can you ask for? PIG is an engaging horror thriller with its shifting focus on crime and creature features, with a heady dose of altered states mixed in for some flavor, written by two authors I've come to enjoy quite a bit these last few years.
While I've read more of Saunders' work than Lorn's, it's interesting to see how well their writing styles merge here. It doesn't always feel smooth, and the writing was a bit choppy for my American eyes, but that's OK. Lorn is a stateside author, while Saunders is across the pond somewhere in the UK. It's ultimately a successful transatlantic partnership though, with only a few, mild hiccups here and there in terms of sentence structure and word choice.
As for the story itself, well, it's pretty dang good. I'm a sucker for monster horror like this, and the Mind delivers as a chillingly infectious scare. Crazies wearing animal masks is a pretty well worn trope, but Pig and Gopher never break character by taking off their masks, and the effects of the Mind make Pig's disguise all the more effective, with my mind's eye conjuring up a heck of a visual.
Saunders and Lorn have put together a fun little romp with this one, pitting robbers, potheads, and killers against not only each other, but a vast-reaching Invasion of the Body Snatchers-like alien menace. I dug it!
While I've read more of Saunders' work than Lorn's, it's interesting to see how well their writing styles merge here. It doesn't always feel smooth, and the writing was a bit choppy for my American eyes, but that's OK. Lorn is a stateside author, while Saunders is across the pond somewhere in the UK. It's ultimately a successful transatlantic partnership though, with only a few, mild hiccups here and there in terms of sentence structure and word choice.
As for the story itself, well, it's pretty dang good. I'm a sucker for monster horror like this, and the Mind delivers as a chillingly infectious scare. Crazies wearing animal masks is a pretty well worn trope, but Pig and Gopher never break character by taking off their masks, and the effects of the Mind make Pig's disguise all the more effective, with my mind's eye conjuring up a heck of a visual.
Saunders and Lorn have put together a fun little romp with this one, pitting robbers, potheads, and killers against not only each other, but a vast-reaching Invasion of the Body Snatchers-like alien menace. I dug it!
December 22, 2017
Ray was just trying to do a solid for his brother Bill. A small job. In and out and nobody gets hurt. Debt paid.
Not only did the job go to hell, but the entire town of Pointvilla went there as well. Now Ray is in a race to get back to his brother and get out of dodge before they both become a part of the melting, oozing Mind.
This was a fast-moving creature feature from two authors that I enjoy very much. The concept was interesting and the characters were pretty wild, as you would expect from these guys.
The story did feel a little choppy and disconnected in parts, which was mildly distracting at times but the pacing of the story was such that it didn’t completely detract from the overall story.
I’m giving this one 3+ Stars and I hope to see Craig and Edward working together again soon because I think they work well together and with some more polish could really kick out some bad ass stuff.
Not only did the job go to hell, but the entire town of Pointvilla went there as well. Now Ray is in a race to get back to his brother and get out of dodge before they both become a part of the melting, oozing Mind.
This was a fast-moving creature feature from two authors that I enjoy very much. The concept was interesting and the characters were pretty wild, as you would expect from these guys.
The story did feel a little choppy and disconnected in parts, which was mildly distracting at times but the pacing of the story was such that it didn’t completely detract from the overall story.
I’m giving this one 3+ Stars and I hope to see Craig and Edward working together again soon because I think they work well together and with some more polish could really kick out some bad ass stuff.
April 29, 2020
Pretty good collaboration between these authors. Was fun to try to find out who wrote what parts.
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