Now we're at a South Wales seaside resort, filming an episode of popular TV series The Chronicles of Gulliver ('Britains answer to Dynasty). Union-bashing Tory propaganda on a Dennis Wheatley scale and no Black Sorcery (or even good bad jokes) to redeem it. Carry On At Your Convenience, a serious contender for worst carry on ever, in opinion of me. The recent pulp mag overload not pulpy enough for you? Pete soon has cause to regret his strop when he falls overboard and straight into the jaws of the jellyfish! Barely out of the blocks but already every reason to feel confident that, like it's illustrious companions, Slime is definitely the kind of novel certain small press superstars of the multiple awards, zero sales persuasion deride as 'giving horror a bad name!' From here it's just a small step - two pages - to devouring their first live human when seventeen year old Pete, fuming that his sister Jenny is spending all their holiday canoodling with smarmy lothario Victor, decides to make off with the rich kid's dinghy. After a few tentative nibbles, they get to work on the ten bloated corpses imprisoned therein and like what they taste. But three paragraphs in and the jellyfish discover a sunken cargo ship on the sea bed.

Peter Brennan's 'Aussie killer boar potboiler' © franklinmarsh)' Razorback, and a lovely pre-battered, ten careless owners copy of this, Halkin's notorious jellyfish on the rampage stormer, as celebrated (snigger) by Chris Morgan in his introduction to Dark Fantasies.Īs with his other Hamlyn classics, Slither ('You'll never feel safe in your bath again', 1980) and Squelch ('The shuddering touch of skin crawling terror', 1985), there's no messing about. It's been bloody ages since i found anything new for this section and suddenly two come along within a minute of each other. slipping through drainpipes and water taps. For now their young appear in reservoirs and storage tanks.

leaving behind their telltale smears of luminescent slime.īut the final horror starts when they begin to breed. fight their way inland up creeks and rivers. Nothing can stop them - not even on dry land. Attaching themselves lovingly to their victims' bodies. They arrived originally in ones and twos - deadly jellyfish eager to feast on human flesh.

John halkin slime