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Protect All Monsters
The monsters are escaping!
For fifty years a secret island has existed, a cross between a prison and a preserve, created by the government to end the threat of monster attacks in the general population. Here, in relative ease, vampires, werewolves and zombies co-exist peacefully, given all the blood and meat they want by human caretakers. In exchange, the monsters do not kill.
Addey is a new worker on the island, shoveling human entrails into the zombie pit. But she has uncovered something truly horrifying—an escape plan decades in the making. Now, with time running out, it’s up to her to prevent the monsters from breaking free and launching an unprecedented reign of terror on mankind.
For fifty years a secret island has existed, a cross between a prison and a preserve, created by the government to end the threat of monster attacks in the general population. Here, in relative ease, vampires, werewolves and zombies co-exist peacefully, given all the blood and meat they want by human caretakers. In exchange, the monsters do not kill.
Addey is a new worker on the island, shoveling human entrails into the zombie pit. But she has uncovered something truly horrifying—an escape plan decades in the making. Now, with time running out, it’s up to her to prevent the monsters from breaking free and launching an unprecedented reign of terror on mankind.
- GenresHorror
280 pages, Paperback
First published December 3, 2013
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Alan Spencer
73 books62 followersAlan Spencer is a freelance horror author from Kansas City. His most recent books are B-Movie Reels, B-Movie Attack, and Psycho Therapy (2013).
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December 8, 2013
I don't play video games much anymore, but if I did, I would love to have this book turned into one. It rides quick and slick. Spencer knows action, horror, and B-movie territory, knows how to hook readers from chapter to chapter. Treat yourself and spend some time protecting monsters before you're thrown to the zombies for a late-night snack.
June 18, 2016
Protect All Monsters. It was a title I had I seen on amazon, where I get most of my books, again and again. Each time reading the synopsis and thinking, it sounds different and maybe even good, but the cover art, which for some of us is a huge attraction for me. Not that I base every book by its cover mind you, but there was something about this cover that, well, looked like it was composed by a Photoshop drop out. Myself being pretty adept at Photoshop kept thinking of a hundred different things I could have done myself to improve the cover. But that aside, I finally took the plunge and ordered it.
I have a love of reading horror and monster novels. I usually go for the underwater monster ones. But the idea of this novel, Protect All Monsters by Alan Spencer, took a lot of the classic monsters we know and love as well as a few other monsters and threw them all together like an antipasto and placed them all into one location. A habitat for all of the creatures of the night; vampires and werewolves and zombies and a few other creatures unheard of. A habitat made to keep them incarcerated, but happy. A habitat made to feed them and give them basically anything they want, to care for them and give them what they need to keep them in a good mood, all in the name of keeping the rest of the population safe.
Right there, the synopsis got me. What a novel idea. Something I hadn't read before. Almost like a sanctuary for monsters. Really, the idea isn't that new, But the way it was presented here was. It was a grabber from the beginning.
Addey Ruanova was working as a maid for a motel complex, when her down on his luck Brother Deke ended up creating a situation that resulted in several deaths there. Addey calling the police to come down and take care of the matter takes her for questioning to a place that wasn't an actual police station. Its there that she is informed that she is being enlisted into a secret government service, where she whole identity is completely erased and she is being transported to a secret island located for from anywhere. On the ship she meets several other people that have been taken the same way as her to be inducted as a worked on an island.
Once there they are given a brief tour and have their jobs described to them. they're jobs are all in the service of taking care of monsters. Addy and a few others is given one of the worse jobs, but not THE worse job, of shoveling human entrails and remains into a pit that slides down a chute into a deep underground pit feeding level 2 zombies. Everyone that is kidnapped by the government is forced to work here for the rest of their lives. The island has a huge entertainment complex though, restaurants and theaters for off duty times. But that isn't enough to keep Addey very happy.
Addy finds out that this island has been in existence for the past 50 years. But Addey uncovers a plot my the monsters, that has been decades in the making. A plot to escape. Addey has to figure out who she can trust and who she cant to help stop this plot from happening, all while working inthe lowest and most disgusting of environments imaginable. The clock is ticking and time is running out.
I will have to say that Alan Spencer lives in a B-movie world. This is the type of story that you could see only in that type of film. But to read it, to feel the plot unfold, you realize that this is something a lot more. its been crafted in a way to be able to bring all of the elements of a B-movie to the written page and make the reader realize that this should be made into a full blown big budget film. Everything about this book was done well. Characters were fleshed out. The ones you wanted to hate you hated even more and the ones you cheered for you had no idea how they would end up. It was crafted to make you feel tired along with he character. that wasn't a bad thing, it was all psychological for sure. But it was good.
Everything that happened in it, happened for a reason, and not just to fill in or for a shock value. Scenes of action and violence were well crafted. As a mater of fact, everything about it was done really good. It was a fun book to read. And not every book is like that.
I gave this book four stars, and really I wanted to give it five, maybe I still will. But its only because I didn't want what happened at the end to happen. But it was still a great and fantastic ending.
This is a book for anyone that is into the not only horror but the fantastic as well. Anyone liking vamps, were wolves and zombies and other things. Something for everyone as they say. I highly recommend it!
Oh and I did change it to five stars.
I have a love of reading horror and monster novels. I usually go for the underwater monster ones. But the idea of this novel, Protect All Monsters by Alan Spencer, took a lot of the classic monsters we know and love as well as a few other monsters and threw them all together like an antipasto and placed them all into one location. A habitat for all of the creatures of the night; vampires and werewolves and zombies and a few other creatures unheard of. A habitat made to keep them incarcerated, but happy. A habitat made to feed them and give them basically anything they want, to care for them and give them what they need to keep them in a good mood, all in the name of keeping the rest of the population safe.
Right there, the synopsis got me. What a novel idea. Something I hadn't read before. Almost like a sanctuary for monsters. Really, the idea isn't that new, But the way it was presented here was. It was a grabber from the beginning.
Addey Ruanova was working as a maid for a motel complex, when her down on his luck Brother Deke ended up creating a situation that resulted in several deaths there. Addey calling the police to come down and take care of the matter takes her for questioning to a place that wasn't an actual police station. Its there that she is informed that she is being enlisted into a secret government service, where she whole identity is completely erased and she is being transported to a secret island located for from anywhere. On the ship she meets several other people that have been taken the same way as her to be inducted as a worked on an island.
Once there they are given a brief tour and have their jobs described to them. they're jobs are all in the service of taking care of monsters. Addy and a few others is given one of the worse jobs, but not THE worse job, of shoveling human entrails and remains into a pit that slides down a chute into a deep underground pit feeding level 2 zombies. Everyone that is kidnapped by the government is forced to work here for the rest of their lives. The island has a huge entertainment complex though, restaurants and theaters for off duty times. But that isn't enough to keep Addey very happy.
Addy finds out that this island has been in existence for the past 50 years. But Addey uncovers a plot my the monsters, that has been decades in the making. A plot to escape. Addey has to figure out who she can trust and who she cant to help stop this plot from happening, all while working inthe lowest and most disgusting of environments imaginable. The clock is ticking and time is running out.
I will have to say that Alan Spencer lives in a B-movie world. This is the type of story that you could see only in that type of film. But to read it, to feel the plot unfold, you realize that this is something a lot more. its been crafted in a way to be able to bring all of the elements of a B-movie to the written page and make the reader realize that this should be made into a full blown big budget film. Everything about this book was done well. Characters were fleshed out. The ones you wanted to hate you hated even more and the ones you cheered for you had no idea how they would end up. It was crafted to make you feel tired along with he character. that wasn't a bad thing, it was all psychological for sure. But it was good.
Everything that happened in it, happened for a reason, and not just to fill in or for a shock value. Scenes of action and violence were well crafted. As a mater of fact, everything about it was done really good. It was a fun book to read. And not every book is like that.
I gave this book four stars, and really I wanted to give it five, maybe I still will. But its only because I didn't want what happened at the end to happen. But it was still a great and fantastic ending.
This is a book for anyone that is into the not only horror but the fantastic as well. Anyone liking vamps, were wolves and zombies and other things. Something for everyone as they say. I highly recommend it!
Oh and I did change it to five stars.
February 21, 2019
Reading a novel by Alan Spencer is akin to watching a slow motion train wreck.
He demonstrates an astonishing lack of knowledge of common idiomatic phrases.
His constant use of nonexistent firearm calibers is like a spike in the eye.
How can one guy get so much so wrong without it being deliberate?
I feel like he should be an warning to other authors, an example of what not to do.
He demonstrates an astonishing lack of knowledge of common idiomatic phrases.
His constant use of nonexistent firearm calibers is like a spike in the eye.
How can one guy get so much so wrong without it being deliberate?
I feel like he should be an warning to other authors, an example of what not to do.
May 30, 2019
It's ok
I liked the idea of the story, but finished the book feeling a bit flat. For me it felt a bit rushed at times. That's just me though, give it a go
I liked the idea of the story, but finished the book feeling a bit flat. For me it felt a bit rushed at times. That's just me though, give it a go
December 19, 2013
Man, was this fun. Darkly humorous, with a fresh take on the zombie/vampire/werewolf mythos. I didn't know if there were any original ideas left with these classic monsters, but Alan Spencer has proven me dead wrong. There are enough chills and buckets of blood to satisfy any horror taste bud. All I can say is, "I want more!"
April 8, 2017
Covertechnisch hatte ich mir mehr versprochen – mehr Skurrilität, mehr Splatter und vor allem auch mehr Spannung. Die Idee hinter Protect all Monsters klingt zwar gut (eine einsame Insel auf der alle Monster dieser Welt gefangen werden, ein Neuankömmling, der ihren Ausbruchplan verhindern muss), es hapert aber an der Ausführung. Zu viele Szenenwechsel, Figuren, mit denen man nicht warm wird, und jede Menge Tatsachen, die nicht weiter erklärt werden. Schade.
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