

Brady and effluent operative Don Palmer from the council sewage department go to investigate. Fortune, complaining about her blocked drain and toilet.

Julie Jenkins, receptionist for the council offices where Brady works, takes a message from pensioner Mrs. On arriving back at his shop afterwards, he discovers the meat he had left in cabinets has vanished, only a few scraps and dark patches of blood remain. Brady, on a routine check of the houses on the new housing estate finds slime trails.īert Crossley, a butcher on the new housing estate enjoys a lunch time drink with friends Danny and Tony. Mary Forbes, housewife, discovers slug larvae in her hanging baskets. The slugs leave Ron Bell's cellar, crawl up into his garden and then down into the sewers towards a new housing estate. Brady accompanies Archie Reece, bailiff, to serve an eviction notice on Ron Bell. Mike Brady, an almost-40-year-old council health inspector awakes with wife Kim, 35, and discusses that he has to help evict a council tenant Ron Bell that day. The slugs then retreat back down the cellar. Slugs in the cellar of an old house feed on scraps of rotten meat someone is unknowingly throwing down to them.Ī very drunk Ron Bell stumbles home, passes out in his front room and wakes to find himself being eaten alive by slugs that have come through the floor. In this book, carnivorous slugs go on a rampage. In 1988, it was adapted as an American/Spanish horror film of the same name. Slugs is a 1982 UK horror novel written by Shaun Hutson.
