Alex's Blog Post Week 6

Title: Slawter
Author: Darren Shan
Pages Read: 256/256
Genre: Horror, Adventure, Action

Slawter is the third book in the Demonata Series, going back into the mind of Grubbs from the first book. The setting starts off a year after the first book, at his Uncle's large house.

Grubbs is helping his Uncle recover from a mental battle with the Demon Lord, Lord Loss. The battle left him with nightmares and sleepwalking that made him start summoning demons. However, Grubbs has always stopped him before chaos and death came along.

Enter a filmmaker

This filmmaker wants Grubbs and his Uncle to help with designing Demon Costumes, and their help specifically because the Uncle is known for demon drawings. She doesn't know that these are based on real demons, but the realism is what is apparently needed in her upcoming movie "Slawter". They begrudgingly accept the offer and end up going to a remote area where there is a large set and studio. They notice a heavily guarded warehouse, but they decide it's not a priority to explore. They have fun and film and stuff until the first demon scene. Now, no one has seen the costume being made or designed, they have only been told it looks, smells, and sounds like a real demon. Not even the actors in the scene are aware of what the demon looks like. When the scene starts, everything goes to plan. Until the demon appears. The demon is so horrifying and the "effects" so real that everyone pauses for a minute while the effects die away. Now, this wouldn't be as horrifying until something happens on set. No one can find the actor that got "killed", and there is no reply on his cell phone. This makes Grubbs believe that the demon was real and everyone mocks him for it. After that, people start disappearing without a trace

Wanting to get to the bottom of everything, he decides to sneak into the ware house; two of his friends join in, and he finds that he can use magic. He uses his new-found power to sneak in, dissolve walls, and hack into computers until he gets to the middle of the warehouse. They all go down a little lift to a massive cave. Here, they find all the people who have gone missing; dead. They all have holes melted in their back and they surround a stone in a perfect stone. After an encounter with a demon (Grubbs uses magic to kill it), they go back up to the set to warn his Uncle. A de-breifing on the situation later, they decide to escape the set. Then, after a very weird series of events later, they find that the stone underneath will be used to open a portal that will let a ton of demons come in and kill everyone on the face of the planet. They then realize that everything since Grubbs wanting to solve everything, everything has been a "server" dream where several people can be put into the same dream. They all wake up and realize that while they have been dreaming, the evil plan has gone ahead and the portal is about to open. What happens next? READ THE BOOK :D