Eat Them Alive Pierce Nace Read Online

His thirst for revenge was unquenchable until he stumbled on the terrifying monsters of Malpelo Isle.

— Embrace Blurb

Consume Them Alive is a 1977 horror novel written by the otherwise bearding 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 equally a pseudonym, because horror novels were mostly written by men at the time. The story is simple. Dyke Mellis is an ex-con who is a fellow member of a gang in Texas consisting of Kane Garrister, Ryan Gaut, Pete Stuart and Zeb Hillburn. One twenty-four hours the crooks hit the large time when they net $2 million in greenbacks from an one-time human being after they torture him to death.

Dyke decides to take all of the money for himself, but fails and is captured. His gang beat him inside an inch of his life. In particular, they castrate him. Afterwards surviving the assail, he escapes to Due south America and ends up living on Malpelo Island off of Colombia. Here he discovers a race of gigantic praying mantises who he trains to kill and eat people, and, of form, uses them to exact vengeance upon his former partners in criminal offense. And pretty much anybody else unfortunate enough to stumble across him.

That'due south the plot, such as it is. What Pierce Nace'southward novel is remembered for though are its shocking levels of violence and depravity. Although there are plenty of nastier books out there, Eat Them Alive is renowned amidst "gorehounds" for being nothing merely violent decease after trigger-happy death, with many victims' demises taking several pages to draw. Nace does this to the betoken of really making intestinal ravaging and throat-ripping at the mandibles of giant praying mantises repetitive. Clearly, what the novel lacks in substance information technology makes upwardly for in sheer quantity.

Have lots of Encephalon Bleach prepare for when, and if, you read this.

It was reprinted in 2022 in a German language edition by Festa Verlag in Leipzig. Information technology remains out of impress in English-speaking countries.

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This novel provides examples of:

• The Alleged Car: A 1950 Ford something-or-other.
• Asshole Victim: Kane, Pete, Ryan and Zeb. Also Dyke at the end.
• Artistic License – Biology: Mantises, giant or non, aren't typically known for being a subterranean species. Or, at least, living below ground that long should've caused them to lose their eyesight. They're besides equally probable to eat each other as any other potential prey.
• Artistic License – Geography: There actually is a Malpelo Island, but it is cipher like the i described in the book.
• The Atoner: Ryan tries to be this with Dyke, merely Dyke is beyond listening to reason by this signal.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Slayer and the giant mantis brigade!
• Bigger on the Inside: The conventional cargo truck Dyke buys tin can deport ix of the mantises in back and somehow Slayer fits in the cab upwards front.
• Encephalon Food: Among their various other nasty ways of gobbling people up, the mantises enjoy corking heads open against rocks similar otters with mollusk shells so they can slurp out the yummy, yummy brains.
• A Boy and His X: A crazy, vengeful criminal and his pet giant mantis.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Fritch Gaut.
• Crazy-Prepared: Dyke simply happens to take very near everything he ever needs for whatever given state of affairs, such every bit tons of stocked up meat to feed Slayer and a muzzle to keep him in, when he initially captures him.
• Roughshod and Unusual Expiry: Virtually everyi and everyaffair.
• Death of a Kid: Repeatedly. Again and again and once more.
• Earthquakes Cause Fissures: The convulse that hits Malpelo opens upward a large rift in the earth, allowing the mantises to escape.
• Eaten Alive: It'due south correct at that place in the title.
• Eccentric Millionaire: Old Homo Shield.
• Eunuchs Are Evil: Dyke.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Kinda. The gang have an unspoken agreement that all their murders are to be "make clean," that is, no rapes and no mutilating of sex organs. For example, although they torture and mutilate Shield when they rob him, they leave his manhood intact. This makes Pete castrating Dyke for his attempted betrayal such an unforgivable crime in Dyke'southward optics, and what drives him over the edge.
• Evil Cripple: Dyke again.
• Failed a Spot Check: Ordinarily, Dyke is pretty expert at ensuring in that location are no survivors at the homes of his victims. Still, by the fourth dimension he and his mantises hit the Gaut residence, he'south gotten sloppy, allowing Ryan's brother Fritch to slip abroad unnoticed. Dyke thinks he sees someone running off, simply attributes information technology to his imagination. This comes dorsum to bite him in the ass large fourth dimension at the cease.
• Fetish: Mantises eating people is this for Dyke. Odd, given he has lost the power to become aroused, something he himself even Lampshades.
• Fingore: Just ane of the tortures inflicted upon Shield by his attackers.
• For the Evulz: The crooks don't but rob their victim, they have time out to slowly cut him to pieces with their knives.
• Gorn: Lots of it. Folio after page. To the point of monotony. Specially focused on women's breasts. The mantises (Slayer in particular) love eating those offset when their victim is a female person.
• Groin Attack: Pete cuts off Dyke's penis when he tries to rip the gang off.
  • Dyke later repays the favor by having Slayer consume Pete'southward manhood. Slayer also does it to Zeb.
• Hero Adversary: Fritch, Ryan's brother.
• Hero of Another Story: Fritch once more. He brought his own pack of killer mantises to avenge his murdered family.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: After Dyke is fatally shot by Fritch, Slayer eats his erstwhile master.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Later watching the mantises eat and then many people, Dyke repeatedly toys with the thought of sampling human mankind, himself.
• Insect Gender-Bender: Slayer, the largest and virtually voracious mantis, is a male. And so says Dyke, anyhow. In existent life information technology is the female person mantis that is normally biggest, strongest and more voracious.
• Kill 'Em All: No one e'er survives a run-in with Dyke and his mantises. Dyke also does somewhen bite it, too.
• Rex Mook: Dyke paints Slayer's head red to tell him apart from the other mantises.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Ryan Gaut. He isn't every bit cruel equally his companions, taking a lot less pleasure in the crimes they commit than they do, and he besides feels guilty about Pete castrating Dyke. That said, he'due south notwithstanding a thief and a murderer.
• Meaningful Proper noun: The castrated male protagonist is named Dyke. Likewise Slayer.
• My Car Hates Me: Why Dyke fails to escape with the boodle.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Dyke in spades.
• Pet the Dog: Dyke's treatment of the drunken old homo he buys his truck from.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Prior to Pete's plan to rob one-time Mr. Shield, the supposed gang of thieves simply saturday around not doing much.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Lampshaded and played direct. Dyke betrayed his partners first past trying to steal the money, so his Roaring Rampage of Revenge is kind of hypocritical. When this is pointed out to him, he admits this is so, and confesses he deserved the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown the gang gave him, but and then adds he tin can't forgive the Groin Attack.
• The Quiet One: Ryan. He is said to be soft-spoken and nigh opens his mouth unless he has something of value to contribute to a conversation.
• Retired Monster: Dyke at the outset, and his former gang when he encounters them again.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The entire point of the story. Well, that and all the blood and guts.
• Scary Black Man: Pete, whose hobbies earlier settling down later on the big score involve killing small animals and maiming children.
• Slaying Mantis: The behemothic man-eating mantises.
• Thinking Out Loud: Dyke does this a lot. He rarely has any Inner Monologue and spends page after page talking aloud to himself.
• Besides Dumb to Live: Keko and his fellow villagers happily go aboard Dyke's boat to visit Malpelo, despite knowing beforehand is it crawling with giant, killer mantises, all on Dyke's sayso.
• Villain Protagonist: Dyke.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Dyke at starting time. Then he just goes too far and stops beingness even remotely pitiable.
• You Killed My Brother: Dyke's much deserved comeuppance finally arrives at the hands of Ryan's brother, Fritch.

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