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Pede
A true homage to the Creature Feature genre!
The once luxurious Mountainview Spa Hotel in the heart of California’s Coachella valley lies decaying, abandoned and heavily boarded up. Its secret; it is the site of a radioactive, ‘dirty’ bomb explosion five years’ previous.
Zoology Professor Jane Lucas has a lifelong phobia of Scolopendra gigantea, the Giant Centipede, despite being the world’s leading authority on it. Following the savage deaths of two young lovers who broke into the hotel for its natural underground spa, and the discovery of centipede remains almost three times its natural size, the professor teams up with four of her students to investigate. But their expedition becomes a fight for survival when they are trapped in the hotel with a gang of violent thugs – including the boyfriend of one of the female students with whom the professor has been having an illicit affair.
They soon discover a voracious swarm of the oversized centipedes that has spawned within the hotel, but are horrified to learn that another creature even more terrifying hunts in the Mountainview’s deserted hallways - a centipede of seemingly impossibly monstrous proportions; and it is ravenous and desperate to feed.
The once luxurious Mountainview Spa Hotel in the heart of California’s Coachella valley lies decaying, abandoned and heavily boarded up. Its secret; it is the site of a radioactive, ‘dirty’ bomb explosion five years’ previous.
Zoology Professor Jane Lucas has a lifelong phobia of Scolopendra gigantea, the Giant Centipede, despite being the world’s leading authority on it. Following the savage deaths of two young lovers who broke into the hotel for its natural underground spa, and the discovery of centipede remains almost three times its natural size, the professor teams up with four of her students to investigate. But their expedition becomes a fight for survival when they are trapped in the hotel with a gang of violent thugs – including the boyfriend of one of the female students with whom the professor has been having an illicit affair.
They soon discover a voracious swarm of the oversized centipedes that has spawned within the hotel, but are horrified to learn that another creature even more terrifying hunts in the Mountainview’s deserted hallways - a centipede of seemingly impossibly monstrous proportions; and it is ravenous and desperate to feed.
- GenresHorror
370 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2016
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May 16, 2023
Amazing idea, didn’t like the delivery. Disliked the characters, plus someone put weird footnotes and corrections all throughout the kindle version.
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August 22, 2016James Longmore has succeeded in creating a book that reads like a movie with all the detail of a book. That being said, not everyone wants to read something like that. I wouldn't want to either, however, for a book that is novel and creature feature all in one, its a beautiful thing, especially when the author knows hot to make it so.
"Pede" is short for Centipede. The creatures themselves, on their own, are enough to invoke nightmares when seen in a picture or in person. Now imagine one that is 25feet long or longer, and you have a gigantic, slithering nightmare ready to inflict huge and deadly dose of paralyzing venom enough to kill 10 people.
When the female prof and her team of 6 students arrive at a boarded up and closed down luxury hotel in search for longer than the usual 12 inch pedes that might be responsible for the death of two people, without the sanction of the university's knowledge.
Finding themselves trapped inside, the group has to use their knowledge of the things to try to keep themselves alive long enough to be able to get out the next day.
To say anymore about this would be a disservice to anyone wanting to read it. It sounds like a simple and straightforward plot and easy to figure out. Its not.
The cast of characters get more than enough backstory to add to it, a lot more than oud ever get in a film and probably more than you actually want to read in this book. But its all the more to add to the fun and exciting read.
The descriptions by the author of these things and what they do and how they do it, the descriptions of the gore and wounds inflicted are immensurable. There is also a fair amount of sexual tension and sex to add to it all. I mean what creature feature wouldn't have it?
Longmore has done a great job, bringing the reader into this deadly foray of the hunters and the hunted. Its a fast read and a page turner as well.
If you like a good monster/creature story, this is one that doesn't fail at all.
"Pede" is short for Centipede. The creatures themselves, on their own, are enough to invoke nightmares when seen in a picture or in person. Now imagine one that is 25feet long or longer, and you have a gigantic, slithering nightmare ready to inflict huge and deadly dose of paralyzing venom enough to kill 10 people.
When the female prof and her team of 6 students arrive at a boarded up and closed down luxury hotel in search for longer than the usual 12 inch pedes that might be responsible for the death of two people, without the sanction of the university's knowledge.
Finding themselves trapped inside, the group has to use their knowledge of the things to try to keep themselves alive long enough to be able to get out the next day.
To say anymore about this would be a disservice to anyone wanting to read it. It sounds like a simple and straightforward plot and easy to figure out. Its not.
The cast of characters get more than enough backstory to add to it, a lot more than oud ever get in a film and probably more than you actually want to read in this book. But its all the more to add to the fun and exciting read.
The descriptions by the author of these things and what they do and how they do it, the descriptions of the gore and wounds inflicted are immensurable. There is also a fair amount of sexual tension and sex to add to it all. I mean what creature feature wouldn't have it?
Longmore has done a great job, bringing the reader into this deadly foray of the hunters and the hunted. Its a fast read and a page turner as well.
If you like a good monster/creature story, this is one that doesn't fail at all.
March 25, 2023
If there is one phobia I have, it is insects. It would also be fair to state a phobia of things that tower over me... combine the two and this tale and you'll know why my skin still itches. I'm gonna take a shower and try to fight the urge to check the corner for multi-legged creepers now...
April 28, 2023
" 'PEDE " by James H. Longmore. I was sent my copy in exchange for an honest review.
Zoologist Jane Lucas has spent her career studying the giant centipede. Not only does she respect them, but she fears them as well. When the autopsies of two local teens show abnormal causes of death, Jane is selected to host an expedition to help investigate the abnormalities; an expedition
This story gave me all the "Tenebrion" vibes. Just replace the demons with centipedes! I've actually always found centipedes insanely creepy, almost more so than spiders, so this book made me squirm consistently from page one on. Longmore includes lots of info on the pedes inside, and I'm curious how long this took to write and why he chose centipedes, of all things, to scare us with! There's also a scene that involves a baby that has stayed with me long since finishing this book 📖.
Zoologist Jane Lucas has spent her career studying the giant centipede. Not only does she respect them, but she fears them as well. When the autopsies of two local teens show abnormal causes of death, Jane is selected to host an expedition to help investigate the abnormalities; an expedition
This story gave me all the "Tenebrion" vibes. Just replace the demons with centipedes! I've actually always found centipedes insanely creepy, almost more so than spiders, so this book made me squirm consistently from page one on. Longmore includes lots of info on the pedes inside, and I'm curious how long this took to write and why he chose centipedes, of all things, to scare us with! There's also a scene that involves a baby that has stayed with me long since finishing this book 📖.
August 24, 2016
Good exciting read
Excellent storyline but poorly edited. Someone reliefs way too heavily on spell check. That being said, the book itself should have received 5 stars.
Excellent storyline but poorly edited. Someone reliefs way too heavily on spell check. That being said, the book itself should have received 5 stars.
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