Breeding ground

Beneath the filthy sewers of London, something is nesting again. The slugs are back, moving through foul, moist tunnels toward the city's streets, hunting for human flesh with a hunger that never seems to be satisfied. This time they carry something worse than their appetite: a contagion that drives its victims mad and kills them, turning ordinary people into twisted, frenzied murderers. Dr Alan Finch finds himself at the centre of this nightmare, and he may be the only person able to put an end to the breeding ground for good.

The novel is a follow-up to Shaun Hutson's earlier book Slugs, and it carries the same mix of creeping dread and graphic violence that made the original a cult favourite.