Therefore, this novel is Suggested for Mature Readers. WARNING! - CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRUESOME DESCRIPTIONS OF INTENSE MONSTER VIOLENCE, along with other scenes involving coarse language and sexual situations. Includes Portrait Gallery of Principal Characters in Appendix. Opening with a tip of the hat to the classic giant creature features, ATTACK OF THE BLACK SCORPIONS then launches its readers on a modern day, over-the-top science-fantasy thrill ride. EAT THEM ALIVE Fiction By PIERCE NACE (Manor Books 1977) Who the hell is Pierce Nace Based on the appropriately titled EAT THEM ALIVE, Nace’s only book, this author is evidently a demented fuck with a penchant for over-the-top gore and misogynistic sleaze.

But when ravenous 12-foot scorpions assault the remote Desert Rocks campground, Dan must rally his family and fellow campers to put aside their differences and ingeniously use the materials at hand to survive. Overworked electrical lineman Dan Montgomery takes his family on an RV road trip through the American Southwest to unwind and reconnect - especially with his rebellious teenage daughter, Jennie. Now they're awake and hungry-ravenously hungry! ATTACK OF THE BLACK SCORPIONS will draw you into the next dimension of extreme horror and eat you alive! By the end you'll probably want to take a shower.They've been asleep for millions of years. But then again Cannibal Ferox is not a perfect movie, but it don't stop you enjoying the heck out of it.Īfter five pages of Eat Them Alive you'll think the author an imbecile.

After all, while watching a Dracula movie, one hardly thinks 'I wish someone would stake the blighter and soon!'. And yet i found myself willing the madman on to greater depths of depravity. The man makes Reinhard Heydrich look like Tommy Cooper. To call the main character in Eat Them Alive an inveterate psychopath is something of an understatement. It was like the guilt you feel watching someone eat or having sex. There came a point two thirds of the way through this book when i actually felt ashamed to be reading it. Blimey, thats up there with Channel 4 repeating the 'Paedophile' episode of Brass Eye, even after the furore it caused first time round. Rather, the sheer gumption of the man, to walk into a publishing house, hand over his manuscript for 'Eat Them Alive' and demand they distribute it for public consumption.Īnd for the publisher to then say: 'Er, okay!'. Evelyn Pierce Nace does seem like a very plausible candidate, and Ive a lot of respect for Johnny Mains and his research, but as someone who works in an archive in publishing and does quite a lot of poking around in old paperwork Id like to see a smoking gun and suspect Valancourt would too. I don't mean literally look at his balls.

Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace