Slugs Author:Shaun Hutson They slime, they ooze, they kill — One female slug can lay 1.5 million eggs a year?a fact which holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist-high grass, in the dank, dark cellars they are acquiring new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For... more » flesh. Human flesh.« less