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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK COMES AN UNFORGETTABLE SCIENCE-HORROR CLASSIC!Bugged! begins at college reunion in a moldering mansion in the midst of an isolated swamp. Howard Barks, accompanied by his daughter Karen, is looking forward to seeing his old college chums when his car stops dead. Howard gets out to see what the trouble is, when hundreds of insects swarm over him and strip the flesh from his bones.Ronald Reid, owner of the mansion begins to grow concerned for the Barks when hours pass and they fail to arrive and sends his butler Grollman to find them. Grollman discovers their car, with Howard's skeleton, parked beside the road, and his daughter Karen alive inside the locked car. Thinking what has happened is a freak occurrence, the rest of the alums don't realize the horrors are just beginning until each member is attacked by swarms of insects and eaten alive.An affectionate parody of ... horror stories ...quite bloody and gruesome ... a good chunk told from the point of view of the bugs ... All in all, a strange and unique little book. -Amazon verified reviewDonald F. Glut is the author of the Number 1 nationwide bestseller, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which won a Galaxy Award. He is also a prolific, Inkpot Award winning comic book author, who has written for Marvel, DC, and Gold Key Comics, and a Rondo Classic Horror Award winner for his movie Tales of Frankenstein. As a novelist, television and comic book writer, Glut has been involved with popular franchises such as The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Transformers, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Johnny Quest and others. The prolific Mr. Glut has also carved a niche in the film world as an executive-producer, writer and director of traditional-style horror movies featuring iconic monsters, among the most recent Tales of Frankenstein, Dances with Werewolves and Blood Scarab. All of which makes him the ideal person to write a classic horror thriller and present it in slick, polished, high velocity pulp fiction prose. Donald F. Glut is the author of three previous novels, including the thrillers, Jawbreaker! and Bugged!, now made available for the first time in four decades by Strange Particle Press.
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