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Creekers

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Phil Straker, a police lieutenant in the big city's narcotic's division, moves to Crick City where he grew up, after being forced to resign his city position after accidentally shooting a child. Crick City is a wasted, po-dunk, redneck town in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by other tiny townships of the same low class. He's invited to work on the police force by Chief Of Police Lawrence Mullins, the man who practically raised him. Mullins wants Straker on his force because of Straker's narcotics background; he suspects a PCP drug ring is doing business in his town.

Crick City has something most towns don't - Creekers. The most backwoods of all societies, Creekers go beyond redneck. The live high in the hills, off the land with no electricity or water, in lean-to's and shanties. They've been inbreeding for years, so all creekers have certain traits common to them: gross deformities, black hair, and red-tinged irises. The only town-creeker is Cody Natter, ugly but smart, and Straker discovers he owns and operates Krazy Sallee's, the local strip club. Even worse, Straker's old girlfriend Vicki Steele is now Natter's wife and works the club as a stripper and prostitute.

Straker uses old childhood chum Eagle, and Vicki, to set up his undercover identity as a good-ol-boy so he can investigate the PCP distribution ring. Just as he fell for Vicki so many years ago, Straker finds himself falling for dispatcher Susan Ryder, though his feelings for Vicki still remain. Despite work problems and love problems, Straker must infiltrate the drug ring to get at the one person he feels responsible for the crimes and murders in Crick City; Cody Natter and his battalion of Creekers. Watch out for some great twists and turns in the book.

'Creekers' was originally published in 1994, and re-released in 2008. Fans of Lee will be able to tell that this is one of his earlier pieces of horror fiction. Ed Lee has a unique talent of capturing the soul of the deep-woods, uneducated redneck. 'Creekers' is definitely hardcore horror, using colorful language, disgusting and deviant $exual scenes, buggering, bestiality, and gross disfigurement. Throw in some demonic rituals (you'll love the "Reverend's" vision of the eternal harvest), a cop who hates drugs (an "industry that perpetuates slavery"), a vulgar strip joint, and a race of eerily malformed people, and you have one of Lee's better early novels. 'Creekers' is a delightful addition to your horror collection. Enjoy!

Edward Lee is one of my favorite Horror Writer's. I haven't read a book of his yet that I have not loved, and Creekers has to be one of his best stories to date.

Creekers are a family of outcasts that live in the woods outside the small town of Crick City. They are a mysterious clan that has been inbreeding for centuries. They are hideously deformed with blood red eyes.

Phil Straker a homicide cop has come back to the town of his childhood in hopes of solving a bunch of gruesome murders that have been taken place in Crick City. There are rumors flying around that the Creekers are the ones responsible, and he is determined to bring them to justice. He has no idea what he about to get himself into.

I could not put Creekers down. I was glued to it the moment I started. I devoured it in two nights, and hated to see it end. It is an original story full of Blood, Guts, and Sex. There are scenes that will have your stomach churning, and heart racing.


Creekers is a must read for any fan of Lee's work. I was happy to see that it is reprint. Now more people will get a chance to read one of the best stories Lee has ever written.

5 Stars

This is actually one of Lee's best books, and it is supposed to be reprinted in hardcover by Necro Press very soon. It's a shame this one is so hard to find when "Messenger" and "Monstrosity" are still in print.

In this one Philip Straker (Lee's pen name for his first two novels) is a down and out cop (the best kind) who leaves the big city to go to a small town police department. He is placed undercover and ends up in a strip bar which features Creeker girls. Creekers, for those that don't know, are rednecks who are inbred to the point that they look like Thalidomide babies. These girls, with their missing and deformed limbs, work at a strip club that doubles for illegal operations that involve higher ups in the community. Straker gets wise, and he is warned to back off. He must now decide whether to back off or to alienate himself with the entire town.

Chock full of the trademark Lee sex and violence, this features names drawn from other Lee works, and references that true Lee fans will appreciate. Hopefully this will be reprinted soon, as the original printing is very scarce.

Sometimes coming home is a big mistake, and especially so if you are one Phil Straker. He has recently undergone a shooting that has left him scarred, and thought his life would end. Then he was approached by a lawman that needed his help, with the idea of cleaning up Phil's hometown. That left him interested and, with nowhere left to go, it left him saying yes. This lead him back to the beginning, back home, and back to the memories that come when he sees the Creekers. The Creekers are horrible to see, too, with their deformities working as badges that show what intermingling bloodlines does after centuries of work. He has seen more than that, however, and that "more" haunts him. Youth. a house. something in the corner. It is all a blur - and destiny?

This was the first book I saw by Lee, and it sold me on the man. In one turn of the pen he had written something that was both terrible and beautiful, and i saw that wilting beauty turning heads amongst my peers. The descriptive talents of Lee are lovely and the diseases he describes are real - although having that many problems with one clan would mean that they had really done a number on nature. He works the research wagon well, and that shows when you read about the varied humps and limps and horrible things that creep off Creeker bodies and onto the pages. What makes it worse is that there is a past here, something that involves a gargantuan circle of myth and reality, and Phil is right in the middle of it. It seems he has a grasp on it at one time, too, but Lee never allows his characters to see the entire picture or to have too happy of an ending. And, in this book, it is worse than that. That's why i love this tale - my parents made a mistake when i was young and accidentally thought that the written word was safe for young minds. I'm glad they did, too, because now I can read almost anything and have loves that go back to places like these.

If you don't know Lee, first read about what he writes and decide if that's a door you like to see open. If it is, then step through it here because this is the book that makes so many others spin in the strata. i personally have a soft spot for this book because of the timing of it and the way people saw it and thought that it took horror to a terrible new low, because that is almost a lovesong coming from the type of people who do mainstream reviewing. It is good stuff, characters and plot and all the whatnot, and you will like it if you don't mind the Creekers and the VERY explicit things that happen to the dying. I recommend it very highly, thinking it is one of the few books that steps outside of the hollow shell horror hides itself in and shows how terrible things can be. That's what horror is, too; a terrible mixture of life and things that are worse than the monsters we imagine.
Buy it, love it, give it as a present.

Paid through the nose to get this book and it was worth it! Edward Lee is probably one of the greatest horror authors out there, what an imagination! I would put him in the same league as Richard Layman.
This story is interesting, horrifying and keeps you on the edge of your seat. What is going to happen next???
Highly recommend this book if you like gory, creepy horror mysteries.

I love his style. I love his humor. I love his sick, raunchy, disturbing storyline.
I can't wait to read more & more....

Man, you need a deep stretch after this one, but one thing is for certain - Ed Lee is a smart guy. He has smut, lots of it sometimes but he blends it well with an intelligent story that serves a purpose, it's not a cup of sugar with a drop of coffee in it, that's for sure . Creekers reads like a thriller with some intense ick that fits in some strange and creepy way. I was following it along expecting one thing and got something totally wicked at the end, I adore an intense ending that kicks the reader awake, for some strange reason it kept reminding me of John Shirley's "Wetbones" which still kicks around in my skull and I read that years ago, sometimes it's easy to get used to all the gore and shock to the point where it barely touches us, but stories like this one stick around and give off a scream every once in a while.

Phil Straker ( Ed Lee's first pen name btw) comes back home, back to a crumb of a city called Crick City the last place that will take him back after a failed career as a cop. He's back to the one place he tried to escape back so hard from, now he is trying to do the right thing by digging his dignity back up with a car sized shovel as he dives deep into the city's dirtiest business, a strip joint that might be in cahoots with the main thing he's used to hunting; narcotics. New and old relationships stir his brains and soul, creating more sorrow than happiness, the story was so realistic that when the ending finally hit me I almost fell of the bed, I read this over two days and it was pretty hard to put down even though it was a total dip into a specific point of view, lots of gross rednecks and the mutated chicks they were drooling after. Phil is chased by new and old demons but he realizes that there is something very wrong with the town he thought he knew, close investigation only gets him closer to the eye of the storm, the one place he should probably avoid, curiosity kills the cat, let's just say that he's more than curious..You get into this whole investigation and suddenly everything is flipped upside down but in a good way, I loved it, very nicely done, I think I will read Lee again very soon, my next victim from him will be Succubi. Up to date Slither marks my favorite of his but this was fabulous, not something you can read every day for a long time because it's probably too much but it's definitely a great scary and keeping you at the edge type of a story.

- Kasia S.

In short, I've read a lot of Edward Lee's books and this
one is at the top of the list...so far. If you have a taste for
the weird, you gotta read this one. Go ahead...I dare ya!

I have read many Edward Lee books and this is my all time favorite so far. If you like his books you will LOVE this one! Not to be missed!

I'm into horror novels and I picked this one up in my local library looking for something different. Boy did I get it! I got sucked in and could hardly put it down. I took the book everywhere I thought I could sneak in a couple pages. It was first rate. Edward Lee has moved to the very top of my list for must reads. Too bad my library doesn't carry much horror fiction, I'd be in there constantly. Initially I was disappointed with the ending, but after thinking I came to the conclusion that if it had been any other way, I would have REALLY been disappointed. Creekers is the first book by Edward Lee that I've read, but it certainly won't be the last...