Crawling Things - E-book - ePub

In a small, northern California town, an abomination that shouldn't exist outside of nightmares has long flourished unnoticed by limiting its sustenance to what it receives from out of the area.  But fate disrupts that system of provision, and it falls upon the local populace to satiate horrific needs.  The town drunk witnesses the beginning of these depredations, but how can he convince anyone that what he saw wasn't just another phantom from a bottle?  Could such evil come from so innocuous a figure as he describes?  Believed only by a young girl who befriends him against warnings from her local cop and her parents, he knows the thing will keep returning for more of those he loves unless he stops it.  But can he overcome mean-spirited harassments, laughing criticisms of his crusade, and alcohol-enhanced limitations of a head wound from a war he can't remember?  Can he construct a suitable weapon in time to kill the monster?