The fact that it was filmed (not particularly well I hasten to add) doubtless helped and certainly the anecdotes surrounding the book and the film have given me something to talk about since it was first published back in 1982.

It launched me, it made my name (I'm not quite sure as what) and it's stuck with me throughout what has remained of my career. If I lived to be one hundred, wrote five books a year and won the Booker Prize every year (yes I am joking) there is just one book I'd probably be remembered for and it's SLUGS. He put a hand up to his cut and, as his probing fingers found the gash in his scalp, he felt a plump, mucus-covered form burrowing into the wound itself… Slugs SHAUN HUTSON Ron coughed, feeling the hot bile clawing its way up from his stomach. A foul, obscene taste filled his mouth and, as he tried to scream, half of the sticky lump rolled back into his throat. He snapped his teeth together, biting down on the jellied lump, cutting it in half. Ron felt something wet on his chin and, for a second, thought he’d vomited but then he felt something fat and slimy gliding over his lips and into his open mouth. His head was thumping from the combined effect of the fall and the whisky. This book has been sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.Īll characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidentalīritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Libraryĭefault, Luck and Accident Also by Shaun Hutson: No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher

Shaun Hutson has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998 to be identified as the author of this workĪll rights reserved. Reprinted by Time Warner Paperbacks in♲002 Published by Caffeine Nights Publishing 2016įirst published in Great Britain by W H Allen & Co Ltd, 1982 Cover.jpg CAFFEINE NIGHTS PUBLISHING SHAUN HUTSON Slugs Fiction to die for

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