by Ben H. Winters
Release date: September 6, 2011
FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.
Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.
Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.
Big mistake.
Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it?
She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean.
Susan fears she’s going mad—until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell.
Win a copy of this book!
Open to all.
Offer ends: September 30, 2011
TO DO:
Send me a link to a picture of a scary-looking bug.
AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)
Participate entries:
Entry pictures removed.
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*image source for participant entries are in comments
This book looks sooooo good. Creepy, but good. I hate bugs and I know I am going to be sorry for reading this but I just have to. Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Here's my scary looking bug:
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jaidahsmommy(at)comcast(dot)net
LOL
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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww no way no thank you! God, my worst nightmare! I'm getting crawlies just at the thought!!!
ReplyDeleteHere is a creepy spider.http://www.pbase.com/mplonsky/image/128143539
ReplyDeleteheres areally creepy water bug id probably freak out if i seen it
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Yikes! HAHAHA.
ReplyDeletehere's my cary-looking bug :">
http://www.indiana.edu/~nehrigr/bugs/spider_4687-z.jpg
Enjoy! :DD
Ummm, this was terrifying.
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Vivien
deadtossedwaves at gmail dot com
Man some of those bug pictures are creepy. Here is one I have found:
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CREEPY!!!
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marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
The book sounds great. Sounds like you'd be scratching though out the whole read.
ReplyDeleteHere's one I found
http://www.brazosport.edu/sites/CurrentStudents/Faculty/JoyKennedyOneill/My%20Caving/scary%20bug%20in%20Belize.bmp
frellathon(at)gmail(dot)com
I'd love to read this book!
ReplyDeleteHere's a creepy one I found
http://jeremyglover.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/crazy-bug.jpg
justjanhvi at gmail dot com
I am from Indiana. I moved to California and loved the gekos and other lizards. Then I moved to Texas and I cannot stand this guy, the Texas Tree Roach. He drops off trees to the roof and somehow gets into the house. I guarantee you that every time I see him up close and personal, I emit a loud scream:
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CarolNWong(at)aol(dot)com
I found this:
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aikychcien at yahoo dot com
These camel spiders in Iraq and Kuwait will literally CHASE YOU. I know I had one chase me. Sometimes other soldiers would have spider vs scorpion matches in empty ammo boxes. Sorry the link is so long!
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A)I L.O.V.E.D. this book!!!
ReplyDeleteB)I am now sleeping in a giant, Ziploc baggie.
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Just dropped by again to see if any new bugs were added. That one by SiNn - so totally freaktastic. Creeps me out bad - love it!
ReplyDeleteIck!!
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Sooo gross. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KdNHBbokUu4/SlDotnZmTrI/AAAAAAAABVs/VAqT9NoCH6A/s400/Big_Scary_Bug_1_by_seto2112.jpg
ReplyDeleteI feel the need to wipe my house down with Lysol just from lookiing at all of the entries!
amber.hrkns(at)gmail(dot)com
I'm getting grossed out just looking at all the pics! Yuck!!
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jwitt33 at live dot com
The bug is so big and scary. I found the bug here :
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dl(dot)love(dot)freedom(at)gmail(dot)com
This is the Giant African Stick Insect: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i8Y_UJwARtY/RuP0C7MaDnI/AAAAAAAAAwU/KU_FejWCA_k/s1600-h/thornlegged_walking_stick.jpg
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gmail.com
Boo!
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educhico AT gmail DOT com
I would really dislike meeting this one!
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This is the one I found!
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joanapatriciadias[at]gmail.com
This post is slightly disgusting!
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My contribution:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/ugly_animals_bedbugs_671592_o.jpg
39(dot)5susy(at)gmail(dot)com
I think mine will beat every other bug around here!
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goncalo DOT mil AT gmail DOT com
Here's my picture.
ReplyDeleteI mean, my picture of a bug, eheheheh!
:)
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2871504970_caffa8c414.jpg
agcestrela(at)gmail(dot)com