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The Creeps
Author:
Connolly, John
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Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PR6053.O
Print Run: 100000
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ISBN-13: 9781476757094
LCCN: 2013032299
Imprint: Emily Bestler Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Pub Date: 10/22/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $22.00
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
H 8.37",
W 5.5",
D 1.2",
0.94 lbs.
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LC Series:
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A Samuel Johnson tale
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Brodart's Blockbuster List
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Horror
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FICTION / Thrillers / General
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
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LC Subjects:
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FICTION / General
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
FICTION / Thrillers
Fantasy fiction
Good and evil, Fiction
Hell, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Fantasy fiction
Good and evil, Fiction
Hell, Fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 07/01/2013 |
| New dark forces make the Great Malevolence look like a walk in the park when terror strikes a new toy shop, sending Samuel and his demon friend, Nurd, back into darkness. Flammable, hostile elves join a glass-half-full messenger of doom and a girl who likes spiders way too much as Samuel and his twisted group beat back the darkness in this series conclusion. 320pp., 100K, Auth res: Dublin, Ireland |
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| Booklist | 10/15/2013 |
| Connolly (The Gates and The Infernals) roars back with a hilariously macabre conclusion to his Samuel Johnson series. Unfortunately, ever since the gates of Hell opened in a basement in the town of Biddlecombe, the place has never been the same. As per usual, all is not right in the topsy-turvy Biddlecombe universe and it remains up to young Samuel Johnson and his loyal dachshund, Boswell, to save the day. As the dynamic duo battle the forces of darkness, incarnated in the forms of various demons, in order to save the world from utter destruction and damnation, a lovesick Samuel also struggles with typical adolescent angst. Connolly proves once again that anything can happen when good battles evil, and the supernatural meets science. Flanagan, Margaret. 336p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 10/01/2013 |
| Connolly whisks readers back to the unsettling English village of Biddlecombe for another oddly entertaining adventure populated by hoards of demons, monsters, ghostly creatures and one valiant little boy with his small canine sidekick. In this third installment in the Irish writer's fanciful Samuel Johnson series (The Infernals, 2011, etc.), Connolly returns to the place where it all started: an English town with a decidedly strange propensity to attract weird, frightening and sometimes wonderful creatures. But Biddlecombe is more than simply a vortex for all things strange and occasionally inhospitable; it's also the home of a young boy, Samuel Johnson, and his resourceful dachshund, Boswell. Samuel and Boswell have twice faced the worst that hell and the evil lord that presides there could devise. On their previous adventure, Samuel and Boswell came back with several new friends in tow, including four thieving dwarves, a couple of police officers, and a once-fearsome demon and his smelly but enterprising assistant. Now, it looks like both Samuel and the town are going to need all of the help they can muster, since evil has once again returned to haunt Biddlecombe. This time, it's in the form of a group of bizarre and otherworldly creatures determined to turn the town into a memory. The action starts when someone notices the architecture that defines the town forms a pentagram. The late architect, who has been immortalized in a statue that disappears and reappears at will, and the architect's crowning achievement, a building renovated and turned into a toy store, also figure into this tale of what happens when two small and insignificant creatures go up against the worst the universe can throw against them. Connolly's storytelling skills never falter in this delightful follow-up to his two previous books in the series, where the footnotes are every bit as entertaining as the prose. Connolly has perfected delivering clever, funny, offbeat tales that are guaranteed to delight both older and younger readers. 336pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 05/19/2014 |
| The modest English town of Biddlecombe has largely recovered from the events of The Infernals and hesitantly welcomed a few friendly demons. The demon Mrs. Abernathy is being recovered--one molecule at a time--by a servant of the Great Malevolence, and a team of CERN scientists is studying how a sleepy town became the nexus for a great deal of trans-dimensional activity. Added to the mix are a performing troupe of ill-behaved little people, a washed-up boy band, and creatures of dark matter that are even worse than demons. The sweetness of protagonist Samuel Johnson's nature and his friendship with the demon Nurd, which were cornerstones of the previous two books, are obscured by the comic set pieces. Even Connolly's energetic storytelling and funny, capacious footnotes can't contain the bursting seams of his trilogy's finale. (Feb.). 336p. Web-Exclusive Review. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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