{"id":463,"date":"2024-05-25T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:00:34","slug":"crabs-the-human-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=463","title":{"rendered":"Crabs: The Human Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91e0ZsrYySL._SL1500_-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1199\" style=\"width:306px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91e0ZsrYySL._SL1500_-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91e0ZsrYySL._SL1500_-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91e0ZsrYySL._SL1500_-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91e0ZsrYySL._SL1500_.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The threat is real. All attempts to fend off insatiable killer crabs have proven futile since the first onslaught in 1976. Holidaymakers, canoodling couples, fishermen \u2013 no one is off the menu! Crazed with blood lust and riddled with cancer after suspected underwater nuclear experiments, these rampaging crabs will stop at nothing to wreak maximum disaster on the world. But now they have a collaborator in human form: cult leader Pete Merrick. Psychopath, sadist and so-called animal rights activist, Merrick seeks to appease the vengeful crustaceans he worships. Can the authorities, led by Professor Davenport, along with ex-soldier David Knight, stop Merrick and his aquatic idols in their quest for destruction \u2013 or will the crabs and Merrick reign supreme?\u00a0<em>Crabs: The Human Sacrifice<\/em>\u00a0is the sixth book in Guy N. Smith\u2019s iconic<em>\u00a0Crabs<\/em>\u00a0series, which began with the 1970s hit\u00a0<em>Night of the Crabs<\/em>.<br><em>Crabs: The Human Sacrifice<\/em>\u00a0is the sixth in an eight-book series. The others are (in order of first-publication dates):\u00a0<em>Night of the Crabs\u00a0<\/em>(1976),\u00a0<em>Killer Crabs<\/em>\u00a0(1978),\u00a0<em>Origin of the Crabs<\/em>\u00a0(1979),\u00a0<em>Crabs on the Rampage<\/em>\u00a0(1981),\u00a0<em>Crabs&#8217; Moon<\/em>\u00a0(1984),\u00a0<em>Crabs: The Human Sacrifice<\/em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<em>Killer Crabs: The Return<\/em>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0<em>The Charnel Caves<\/em>\u00a0(2019). In addition,\u00a0<em>Crabs Omnibus<\/em>\u00a0(2015) is Smith&#8217;s anthology of crab-themed short stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.eu\/d\/5g91pqO\">Crabs: The Human Sacrifice (Crabs Series Book 6)\u00a0Kindle Edition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat is real. All attempts to fend off insatiable killer crabs have proven futile since the first onslaught in<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crabs: The Human Sacrifice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}