Spook Retorts: UK not OK is back, along with Filip! And more importantly, SLUGS (sorry, Filip). That’s right! Sam has decided to grace us with the 1985 sequel novel to Shaun Hutson’s pulp fiction classic Slugs, the aptly named Breeding Ground. Also about slugs…but slugs who breed. They also have mind control. And sometimes they eat…you know what, let’s start over. Picking up where the last book left off, probably, a slug is eaten off some cabbage by an unfortunate man who pretty immediately dies, luckily by a toilet, unleashing the slugs that have somehow grown in him, into the sewer system. The slugs, true to their book title, breed prolifically, and at speeds previously unknown to man, infecting the suburbs of London. But watch out, now that they’re back, they’re determined to be better than ever, using their mind control (?) powers to make their human incubators…murder each other? We are also perplexed on why you’d destroy the thing you use as a host, but we’re not slugs. Also, sometimes they eat them sans breeding, just for funsies. Like a three-in-one deal. Join Sam as he chronicles a series of slug murders, Mind Ducks Books podcast host and slugspert, Filip, for Slug Fact Corner (doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) and Danielle, who’s just around to question, once again, the abhorrent lack of salt. Will the slugs win out in the end? Will Shaun Hutson consider the best sequel name we’ve ever come up with as a contender for future Slug novels? Will they use a dozen unknowing human sacrifices to lure the slugs to their grave? Get your bacon sandwich and find out why the UK is definitely not OK.

Special thanks to friend of the pod and honorary co-host Filip from Mind Duck Books for joining us! You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram, and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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