aka Devil's Coach-Horse
by Richard Lewis
1979 Signet
Like the best of disaster/animal attack novels, The Black Horde is largely a series of miniature character studies, each punctuated by gruesome death, here by tiny, man-eating beetles. Lewis is kind enough not to waste page time on following any main characters. A scientist finally pops up with a way to counter the plague, the end? Lewis had the guts to kill off scores of children, but chickened out and did so off page. Signet really jumped on the killer animal bandwagon around this time, with another dozen or so titles advertised.
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