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From the bestselling author of "Guardian," "Creature," and "Black Lightning," a spine-tingling tale of all-consuming evil as riveting and chilling as any he has ever produced.
It will be a sweet homecoming for Karen Spellman. After years of living in Los Angeles, the pretty, young widow and her two daughters are returning to the lush countryside of Pleasant Valley, where Karen grew up. In this verdant, fertile place, Karen hopes to find not only a refuge from urban chaos, but love, for she is going home to marry her high school sweetheart.
But something sinister awaits her. Something as primal as nature, as demonic as hell itself. For long ago, a shadowy menace stalked Pleasant Valley. A menace forgotten, thought dead. But only sleeping.
Now Karen's homecoming will become a confrontation with terror as she battles to protect her daughters from a malign, preternatural force that must satisfy its gruesome thirst for innocent prey . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #285665 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-12-15
- Released on: 2010-12-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Bestselling horror writer Saul's 18th novel features a mad entomologist and serial killer whose latest experiment causes insects to control the mind of a teenage girl, forcing her to implant the bugs into other innocent teens.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This novel may be the ultimate stomach turner. Saul follows his standard theme: a group of dangerous young people must be destroyed for the world to be safe. The story begins with Julie falling victim to a strain of bees whose venom is unusually toxic. The man who developed the bees, and their antitoxin, is a serial killer. Not wanting Julie to survive, he switches the antitoxin for an untried substance that turns out to be a new species of insect that requires a mammalian host for survival. Julie survives, infested with internal insects, and spews them forth to infect her friends. The horror of her condition is thoroughly detailed. Saul also gives us a splendidly creepy bug-infested house of horrors and a fitting revenge for the villain. Not for the weak of stomach, but essential for any library that has Saul fans.
--Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Once again, it's evil-science time with John Saul and his usual cast of kid victims. Karen Spellman and her daughters Julie, 16, and Molly, 9, move from L.A. back to the bucolic community in which Karen grew up. For with the girls' father years dead, Karen has remet and decided to marry farmer Russell Owen. Things start going awry right away: at Karen and Russell's home wedding, Molly is stung by a bee, and although it's happened before with no untoward results, this time she nearly dies. More accidents with bees and other insects occur--not least to Julie--and while local entomologist Carl Henderson, who works for the agricultural branch of a huge chemical company, is able to provide seemingly effective antivenins when folks react badly to bites, he also occasionally behaves most peculiarly. Besides, as local head cop Mark Shannon knows, more strange stuff has been happening, such as the disappearance of teen runaway Dawn Sanderson. Could Carl be behind it all? As Bugs Bunny used to say--ears cocked, brows arching off his face, mouth bowed into a leer of epic proportions--"Hmmmmmmmmmmm, COULD beeee!" Routine cheapo sf-horror-thriller fare from a reliable vendor who's been better. Ray Olson
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
unexpected ending
By Gail Davis
I found this to be a very exciting book, great read.will never look at bee hives the same way....ever. Bzzzzzz
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Creepy Crawling Nightmare!
By L. Martin
When I started reading THE HOMING, I wasn't exactly sure what it would be about. I had previously read, and thoroughly enjoyed, THE GUARDIAN by John Saul and was anxious to start another by this author.
Although I didn't enjoy THE HOMING as much as THE GUARDIAN, it brought out many emotions even if it did go into extreme detail on a wide variety of insects. I'll never look at another bug in the same way again.
While reading, I learned that homing is an insect instinct that leads them home. You can't move a beehive within 5 miles from the previous location or the bees will return to the previous hive location hovering over the empty spot until they drop dead of exhaustion. I also learned more that I ever wanted to about larvae, pupae, etc.
Karen Spellman grew up in Pleasant Ville located outside of San Luis Obispo. After attending her high school reunion, she falls in love with a former classmate, Russell Owen, and they decide to get married. Karen with her two daughters, Julie and Molly, move from Los Angeles ready to live a happily ever after type of life. From the day of the wedding, marital bliss eludes them as one tragedy after another surrounds them.
On Karen's wedding day, Molly (her youngest daughter) is stung by a bee and has an allergic reaction. The local doctor's anti-venom doesn't work and they fly to San Luis Obispo in a friend's plane. New, experimental anti-venom is given to her and the symptoms instantly subside. Dr. Ellen Fillmore, Pleasant Ville's local doctor, asks for some of the anti-venom to have on hand for future needs, and so the evil begins...
The real anti-venom is substituted with a serum that harbors insects in the host's body until they multiply to the state that they are expelled into another host. Sounds pretty gruesome, huh? It is and it gets worse. Since Molly was given the real anti-venom she isn't affected, but when her older sister, Julie, is stung, she is given the substitute and many changes begin to take place. Julie in turn infects some of her teenage friends and the horror is multiplying faster than you can imagine.
Saul creates many believable support characters all eagerly trying to find answers to the many questions raised in this book. He even throws in an A & W owner who is the town gossip and flirt along with a small town cop who is a downright nice guy.
One of the things I didn't like about THE HOMING was that I found it depressing. It seemed as if it was disaster after disaster with few positive things happening to any of the characters throughout the entire book. After awhile it begins to wear on you, and I just wanted to finish the book and be done with it. Looking back, I'm not sure that was because of the goriness or the image of the millions of insects reeking havoc among the townspeople that my mind pictured. Whatever the reason, I read quickly so I could move on to something a little less intense. I think my next book might be that Calvin and Hobbes I have on the shelf!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
This book will sting you in the butt!
By SHIV SHAKTI
First and foremost,I would like to say that this book is toxic!Well,what I mean is that:if you hate insects,don't even bother reading the book,farless for this review.Don't say that I didn't warn you...Anyway,if you have the stomach for it,lets get down to business.
Main characters(Karen Spellman,her daughters Mollie and Julie,her Husband Dan,and her stepson)
Karen Spellman has run into some financial problems after her husband has passed away.
After being invited to a high school reunion,she meets an old friend of hers and falls in love.
She later takes her two daughters from the city and they all move to where her she(karen)lived as a kid.
She then marries her old friend,therby becoming his son's stepmom.
Dan's father,for no reason at all,hates Karen and her children.It is hinted that he hates them because he doesn't think they are right for the country life.
On the farm they have:horses,a dog,other animals and BEES.
NOW,let me explain what the bees are for:they are simply to help in pollination of the crops.
Now back to the story,where was I,oh right:
Mollie is bitten by a bee during the wedding ceromony.
She is taken too the local hospital where it was made known that nothing could be done immediately due too lack of facilities.And that she would have to be taken too another hospital.
She was in a critical state,I might add,she developed a bad allergy to the bee sting.
Fortunately,there was a new anti-toxin at the hospital in which she was taken.(this anti-toxin was not available to the local market yet).Anyway,she recovers fully and things returned to normal...UNTIL:
Some time later her older sister Julie is bitten by a bee and the same thing happens,but only things turn out a little worse because she was not given the same anti-toxin her sister was given but a highly mutated chemical which altered her body,making it into an "insect" internally.
Confused I am sure you are.So let me elaborate a little more on it.When the bee stung her it injected larvae into her blood stream.This larvae underwent metamorphosis and produced insects(the writer does not explain this part too in dept,he sorts of leaves us hanging,but he still gives us hints.I hope for a sequal)in different parts of her body.These insects had to be transferred to another body(host)after a certain period of time,because unfortunately the cannot live outside the human body.And the human body in which they live in can only withstand only a certain amount of invasion before being destroyed!
So this is basically what happens throughout the story:starting with Julie the "insects" spread to other children via air contact.She just breathes it onto them.They get infected,feel sick for a while and then they just start feeling different,not necessarily good.
But the strange thing is that they start too lose control over their thoughts and when they want to say that they don't feel too well or that they are feeling freaky,they just can't.Because whatever is inside of them starts to control not only their body but their minds!
The story is well written.It has all the right scares at all the right times.And it is really gross at times,believe me.
A couple of people die in this story,of course.
Julie is one,her stepgranfather is another,her step brother is anoter...They die in a fire...
Anyway,before I close off,I am sure you probably would want to know where the hell this type of bee came from?Well,I am briefly going to explain this part.
There is a serial killer.(this guy was treated badly as a little guy,especially by his sister.And as a result he grew to hate girls who has the description as his sister,who looks like his sister,who has the features of his sister).
Now this killer is no ordinary one.He is a scientist,a mad on.An enatomist,or something like that!
He deals with insects.He specializes with these things and knows everthing or almost everything about them,or at least I think so...
So,he works for the company that supplies bees to the family.(Karen's husband).
And he creates something which would make the bees smarter and better at their jobs,thereby making their pollination process easier...
So,he goes to the Spellman's farm to inject the beehive with this new chemical of his.
On his way to this beehive he approaches Julie spellman.He automatically gets "crazy" because she fits the description of his sister.So he tries to strangle her...But anyway let me be brief.Somewhere during the fight a bee stings Julie...She,as I have mentioned,is taken to a hospital.
And the thing to note here is:she is not given the new anti-toxin here sister was given...But guess what?She is given the new chemical that the killer created for the bees.Because the killer switches it because he didn't want her to report him to the police.He,on the other hand didn't not know that the chemical would have that reaction to her body...
This is basically the main plot in the story.
The serial killer becomes the haunted.
A fascinating read...Nigel.
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