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When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

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November 2018, no. 406

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

University of Queensland Press, $22.95 pb, 237 pp, 9780702260216

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

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November 2018, no. 406

As a boy, I watched with fascination an early sci-fi horror film, The Blob. After a meteorite lands in Pennsylvania, a small, gelatinous blob emerges from the crater. Starting with an inquisitive old man who probes this runaway black pudding with his walking stick, the blob proceeds to consume, literally, everything in its path, growing in girth and bringing greater terrors with each new small-town American engorgement.

Anthony Lynch reviews 'When I Saw the Animal' by Bernard Cohen

When I Saw the Animal

by Bernard Cohen

University of Queensland Press, $22.95 pb, 237 pp, 9780702260216

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