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The Flesh Eaters Kindle Edition

by L. A. Morse (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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Cannibalistic cave dwellers. Huge, terrifying clans roaming the moors, seeking out human flesh to rend and consume. It sounds like the horrors of prehistoric savages, but it falls well within recorded history of civilized men. The first half of the fifteenth century saw savagery and fear that erased the line between man and beast.

Just eight miles east of the modern city of Edinburgh, Sawney Bean and his murderous family prowled the Scottish coasts, robbing travelers and consuming their victims. “Stick… stock… stuck. You’ve run out of luck. Kill... kill… kill. We eat our fill,” they chant as they descend upon their prey. There’s little the community can do but be hunted.

This horrifying tale of nightmare-inducing monsters--inspired by true events--comes into stark reality in THE FLESH EATERS, an imaginative novel by Edgar Award winning author L.A. Morse. Beware, any readers faint of heart. It’s those soft hearts that are the tenderest meat. 
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  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
  5. Publication date
    April 1, 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00J2IKA5Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (April 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3691 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 195 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
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Mike T.
5.0 out of 5 stars A hell of a story
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2022
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The Sawney Beane clan, inspiration for Wes Craven's 1977 cult hit The Hills Have Eyes, are attacking the countryside. We see the formation of the family and their domination of the country roads on which they prey. We see the lackluster Sheriff and the townspeople he fails to protect. This book is grimy and gory and a lot of fun to read. If you're a fan of the above mentioned movie (or even Bergman's The Virgin Spring for you artsy types) then you'll want to read this fictionalized account of evil in human form.
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Mia
4.0 out of 5 stars The cannibals, the cannibals
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017
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Medieval times were the dark ages. Dirty, ignorant and base peasants barely stood a chance. And yet one man managed to strike out on his own (well, with a wench in tow), live as he wished, hunt as he wished, follow no rules but his rules, create a huge family, never go hungry and accumulate untold wealth and do so for over two decades. Alternatively...a sociopathic misfit took his teenage lover of similar inclinations to a remote location where they proceeded to enthusiastically reproduce and engage in murder, cannibalism, incest and other family pastimes. Don't blame them, this was before television. Nasty tale, isn't it? Possibly actually happened, possibly a legend, possibly antiScottish propaganda by the Brits. But disturbing on a primal level. This wasn't even the only case, there's also Christie Cleek, but Sawney is definitely the most famous/infamous one. Cannibal clans may have been written about with more panache, specifically by Jack Ketchum who has made the woods of Maine even scarier with several books and films. This book still has its merits, though. Written in a what seems like deliberately flat present tense narrative, it narrates the horrors with a near documentary matter of factness, yet is unmistakably a work of fiction and an entertaining one at that so long as you can (beware the pun) stomach it. Very graphic and disturbing and if you expected something different from a story about a family of cannibals, maybe the psychological ramifications of such an existence on the individuals, well...this isn't that kind of a book. This is the book with a dismembered arm on the cover. Adjust expectations accordingly. Then have fun. It really is fun, there's even some comedy in it via idiotic sheriff. So...bon appetit (sorry, it's just so pun ready). Enjoy.
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Steve White
3.0 out of 5 stars A Grisley Story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2015
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I first read about Sawney Bean and his family when I was at school and it was one of those things that just stuck in my memory and so I thought, many years later, that I would see if there were any books about this available to my Kindle - and here we have one.
This is a very gruesome story about an incestuous clan in 14th Century Scotland who live as cannibals. They hunt and eat humans as we would hunt and eat animals. In this book the story is brought to life and we see things mainly from the viewpoint of Bean and his clan, but also we see the side of those who are trying to catch them (thinking it's some kind of monster) and their superstitious and simple ways of thinking.
Ultimately for me the question has always been, who was worse - Bean and his clan for their sickening and unnatural way of life, the authorities who basically tortured them to death in public or the public themselves who no doubt would have revelled in the gruesome spectacle of seeing these people being torn limb from limb and burned alive as a form of entertainment?
The story is well enough put across and if you're not familiar with it, give it a read and see what you think.
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koda
3.0 out of 5 stars Abrupt poor ending and badly worded, historically inacurate
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2016
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A good read but a very poor abrupt ending i was thinking a 2nd book would continue the lives of he cub and she cub after they witnessed the rest of the beans burning at the stake but it has just been left which is a shame
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