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Quatermass and the Pit

(1960)
(The third book in the Quatermass series)
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A London excavation crew halts work when they discover a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. An anthropologist, his assistant, and Dr. Quatermass dig deeper and discover a strange missile that is not of this earth. The dead occupants of the missile are strange locust-like creatures, and Quatermass later believes that we may owe his intellect and latent psychic powers to the long-dead creatues. And even more unsettling, the spacecraft appears to be alive.


Genre: Horror

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