![]() ![]() ![]() Although there are plenty of nastier books out there, Eat Them Alive is renowned amongst "gorehounds" for being nothing but violent death after violent death, with many victims' demises taking several pages to describe. What Pierce Nace's novel is remembered for though are its shocking levels of violence and depravity. And pretty much everyone else unfortunate enough to stumble across him. Here he discovers a race of gigantic praying mantises who he trains to kill and eat people, and, of course, uses them to exact vengeance upon his former partners in crime. After surviving the attack, he escapes to South America and ends up living on Malpelo Island off of Colombia. ![]() His gang beat him within an inch of his life. One day the crooks hit the big time when they net $2 million in cash from an old man after they torture him to death.ĭyke decides to take all of the money for himself, but fails and is captured. Dyke Mellis is an ex-con who is a member of a gang in Texas consisting of Kane Garrister, Ryan Gaut, Pete Stuart and Zeb Hillburn. ![]() Eat Them Alive is a 1977 horror novel written by the otherwise anonymous Pierce Nace note The author was in fact eventually revealed to be Kansas native Evelyn Pierce Nace, wife of insurer Otis Nace, who wrote under her maiden name and married name as a pseudonym, because horror novels were mostly written by men at the time. ![]()
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