![]() ![]() Cover design looks like something Tor would've published, and those eyes of obsidian are appropriately unholy. Okay, one last one before I go: Bloodworm! Actually, this cover's more like it, that's some serious bad-assery going on there. All three in this "series" - Slither, Slime, and Squelch - were published first in the UK by Hamlyn, and then reprinted in the mid-1980s in the States by some publisher called Critic's Choice. The titles were inspired by, I'm sure, the infamous '76 flick Squirm, while the plots seem to be sub- James Herbert style monster mayhem, with populations of innocents bedeviled by creepy-crawlies like mutant jellyfish, legless lizards, and ravenous caterpillars. ![]() ![]() The art is on par with an eighth-grader creating his imaginary tattoos in art class. Were the titles Guts, Gore, and Gross already taken? Would you wanna be caught reading one of these monstrosities?! Ha. ![]() Fortunately before slipping into an utter and a completely deserved obscurity he bestowed upon us several British pulp-horror novels that were graced with some of the cheesiest and most ludicrous cover art of the day. None of the internets could help me find anything about him but that he was born in 1927. Who, you say, is John Halkin? Honestly, I have no idea. ![]()
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