A young couple who had been at the party then start living in the farm house and making friends with the locals, but it’s not long before they realise something bad is in the woods near their house.

One of them goes out to pee in the woods and gets murdered. Soon after the kid dies, a young professional buys a house in “the Kill” and invites all her friends for a party. This scene is deeply unpleasant, but it does a good job of engaging the reader. The novel starts off with a child being murdered in the woods near a place named Deacon’s Kill. I really got into this book when I was reading it, but the ending was a let down. The above comments may seem quite critical, but although they are all true, I did actually quite enjoy this very silly piece of trash novel about killer flies. It would be a great shame for a person to have to pay more than a few dollars for trash like this. I love that there are publishers getting this kind of crap back into print. In the end, the main characters, 2 men and a woman who are involved in a ridiculous love triangle, kill the flies by playing a song at them.Īpparently this was quite a difficult book to track down for a while, but it was recently republished by Encylopocalypse. Apparently Mark Kendall is a pseudonym for a writer called Melissa Snodgrass, and it seems like she is not hugely proud of this work. Killer Flies came out two years after Gila! too, so it looks like it was the rip-off. When I looked through the goodreads reviews after finishing the book, I noticed that I was not the only person to notice the similarities here. One book is about lizards and the other flies, but episodically they’re almost identical.

It was so similar to Gila! by Kathryn Ptacek that I wondered if both Kendall and Ptacek had attended the same “write your own animal attacks horror novel” workshop. This is a book about a swarm of genetically altered flies who turn bad and start killing everything in sight. Honestly, this says more about the book than my expertise. I knew nothing about this book when I started reading it, but if you had asked me to guess the plot, my guess would have been very accurate.

Pierce nace eat them alive