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“An apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism…addictive.” —Publishers Weekly

“This is a fresh take on classic horror, thoroughly enjoyable and guaranteed to leave your skin crawling.” —Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

“Guaranteed to do what Jaws did to millions of people.” —Suspense Magazine

An astonishingly inventive and terrifying debut novel about the emergence of an ancient species, dormant for over a thousand years, and now on the march.

Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out.

The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.
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“This novel should come with a warning label: The Hatching is scary as hell. And addictively fun.” -- Benjamin Percy, critically acclaimed author of THE DEAD LANDS, RED MOON, and THE WILDING

“The Hatching is a hair-raising thriller that reads like the lovechild of Independence Day and World War Z, but is creepier than both....Every once in a while something comes along that everyone will be talking about. This will be one of those books!" ― The Rappologist

“An apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism…addictive.” ― Publishers Weekly

“It's been too long since someone reminded us that spiders are not just to be feared, but also may well spell doom for mankind. Fortunately, Ezekiel Boone has upped the ante on arachnophobia. This is a fresh take on classic horror, thoroughly enjoyable and guaranteed to leave your skin crawling.” -- Michael Koryta, New York Times best selling author of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD

“I do not like spiders at all, so The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone was a must read for me…This debut novel rocked my socks off and then made me put them back on...quickly ...and my shoes too.” ― bloglovin.com

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Ezekiel Boone lives in upstate New York with his wife and children. He is the internationally bestselling author of The Hatching, Skitter, and Zero Day.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria/Emily Bestler Books; Reprint edition (February 14, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501125052
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501125058
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.9 x 8.25 inches
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I live in upstate New York with my wife and kids. Whenever I travel and say I'm from New York, people think I mean NYC, but we live about three hours north of New York City. Our house is five minutes outside of a university town. We're far enough out of town that, at night, it's dark.

No.

Darker than that.

Dark enough that, if you're not careful, you might fall off the small cliff at the edge of my property. If you're lucky, the water will be up enough to break your fall. If you're not lucky, please sign a waiver before you come to visit.

I've got two unruly dogs who are mostly friendly. Well, that's not true. The part about them being unruly is true, but one of them is the most friendly dog you've ever met, and the other dog ... isn't. We often have to put her away when guests come to visit so she doesn't eat our guests. They are good writing partners, though they spend a lot of their day curled up in front of the wood burning stove and ignoring me. Unless I'm making lunch. They pay attention to me then.

My books include THE HATCHING series (THE HATCHING, SKITTER, and ZERO DAY) as well as the forthcoming THE MANSION.

I also write under the name Alexi Zentner. Alexi Zentner's books are pretty different from Ezekiel Boone's.

You can follow me on Twitter @ezekiel_boone

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If you are looking for that next skin-crawling, fun, witty and terrifying read, check out these first two gems from Ezekiel Boone. If you enjoyed Scott Sigler's "Infected"... if the movie "Arachnophobia" left you wanting much more... if you see the end of humanity more likely to come from unleashed nature than a zombie horde... treat yourself."The Hatching" releases the nightmare; a terror entombed for better than 10,000 years, sealed with a dire warning and never intended to be discovered is unearthed. An irrational, visceral and primal dread is connected to ancient events that deeply imprinted its instinctive, genetically-stored memory into the human subconscious. Its true nature realized too late, the knowledge changes everything we think we know about a major extinction event and the implications place a group of survivors into a race for the survival of not just themselves but for humanity itself.Check the corners... check the ceiling above your bed... check under the covers... enter the nightmare. "Skitter" picks up the remains and hits the ground running. I'm anxiously awaiting next year's 3rd book in this chilling series.Start the nightmare with Book 1 here:The Hatching: A Novel (The Hatching Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501125052/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_W7lQzbX3X7KBZ"The Hatching" & "Skitter" are available now in the following formats:Kindle, Nook, Hardcover, Paperback & Audible audiobook.Personally, I highly recommend the audiobooks. Excellent productions!Now available for pre-order on Amazon-Zero Day: A Novel (The Hatching Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501125109/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ddmQzbKAA5JCR
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runebeard
5.0 out of 5 stars Creeped me out!
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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This one was a must read for me. I've never read any of Mr. Boone's prior books so I started here. This book does things right for the horror genre. It feeds you just enough info to keep you hungry for more, and then when the reveals come, they are a shock. The surprise moments within these pages are delivered really well. The characters are interesting and the connections between them seem as though you knew it all along. I love the fact that in the writer's version of our great country, we have a female president, and she's not only likeable but strong, fierce and very capable. That is a refreshing change.
The book is very well written and I will give no spoilers other than what is above. People need to read this book! I will tell you though..... if you don't like creepy crawlies, especially spiders, then this book will be a rough one. I don't mind them and I love monsters and apocalyptic fiction, so it hits on all cylinders for me! The science here is good, the ideas and imagination great, and the subject matter just seems to have come on at the right time. I have went years without reading a book that gave me the heebie-jeebies! This one did it in spades and I can't wait for the next book to come out. Yes gentle readers, the horror continues. I, for one say bring it on!

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Carole Wooten
4.0 out of 5 stars Spiders!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2018
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This was an excellent book! I have had this book sitting on my kindle for the past year and a half and have no idea why I am just now reading it. It really is as good as I heard. Maybe better. It was one of those books that I didn't want to set aside because I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. I am just glad that I finally decided to read this book.

This story was told a little differently. Each chapter focuses on a different character or set of characters. Readers do get to see these characters at various parts of the books and sometimes their stories overlap but the focus of this book stays on the spiders. Don't get me wrong, I did feel like I knew the key characters in this story by the end of the book. I really liked how each chapter was like another piece of an overall puzzle.

So this book is about spiders but not your everyday run of the mill spider. This book is about killer spiders, lots of killer spiders. These are spiders unlike anything the world has ever seen. They can kill with remarkable speed and are driven to do so. When a nuclear bomb is detonated in China, officials initially believe it is an accident but they soon wonder if it was really in response to the spiders.

I was amazed by how realistic everything in this book seemed. I am really not too worried about giants waves of man eating spiders but I thought that the reactions to an extreme emergency felt genuine. I thought that the government's response to the situation wasn't outside the realm of possibility if there was a threat on this kind of level. I liked how this book really let the reader into the heads of people on all sides of the situation.

I would highly recommend this book. I think that this was an incredibly entertaining book with a whole lot of excitement. I am really excited to continue on with this series because I need to know what happens next.
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Bob
3.0 out of 5 stars Only the first chapter.... but tolerable.
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
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Like others have said, this is yet another "book" that us really just the first chapter of a real book.

That being said, the story is interesting, the writing is okay for a first time author who watches a lot of monster of the week sci-fi movies.

The author makes a large deal of pointing out how there's a lot of women in charge (including the president) but seems to take advantage of each situation to blather about the dynamics of women giving orders while at the same time going into details about who they are sleeping with or who they want to sleep with. The diatribes about women in charge would mean more if they weren't repeated for multiple characters. At least to me.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the one passage that really turned me off. One side character was a "good republican" because he hated cops and black people. Cue rolling of the eyes.... It's the kind of thing that turns you off when you're on the fence about buying the sequel.

So the true test, will I buy the over priced sequel? I still don't know. The story is very mediocre, and part of me would be annoyed knowing some of the money is going to the author. I suppose I'll wait a week or two, read another book and see if I'm pulled back to this story. And that's about as positive as I can be.
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Emily O
5.0 out of 5 stars 🕷️
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
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I love spiders and creature features. I thought this was going to be a great read…. But in reality it was horrifying. I used to say hello to little spiders I saw. Now I might just smash them. *shiver*
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4.0 out of 5 stars eight-legged armageddon!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
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if you get excited about the prospects of a spider-borne apocalypse, well then, run, don't walk, and grab this delightful potboiler. tying into to the famed nazca spider geoglyph (tattooed on my arm since 1993), the hatching, as you might guess, involves the emergence of a particularly bloodthirsty breed of spider that has a penchant for laying eggs...in PEOPLE (cue phil hartman's impersonation of charlton heston from soylent green). boone is a solid writer, and even turns a few phrases that linger. while far from hardcore biology, it passes this arachnophile's scrutiny. the characters are generally engaging, there is real effort (though not always successful) to challenge gender and racial norms in storytelling, and, above all else, this book is fun. it sets up as the beginning of a series, which is fine, as the hatching mostly concentrates on the initial outbreak. patience, patience. nothing groundbreaking, but certainly spider-ific to the nth degree, loaded lots of gory arachno-goodness. i especially enjoyed seeing how impotent we would be in the face of something like this. despots, extremists, guns, tanks, even chemical weapons, we can understand, because that's how we think, that's who we are. an organized, massive, totally alien threat motivated by an insatiable biological imperative? it's over. very entertaining.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tiefste Uraengste leben ihren Horror - Meisterhaft
Reviewed in Germany on February 8, 2018
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Hat mich vom Aufbau ein bisschen an American Psycho erinnert.....die ersten 80 Seiten passiert nicht wirklich viel und baaaaammm bricht die Hoelle los.....sehr sehr geiles Schmuckstueckchen(auch die Boerbuecher dazu sind phaenomenal gelesen).
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Mélie
1.0 out of 5 stars Assez décevant
Reviewed in France on April 27, 2017
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Au vu des commentaires (et du résumé qui semblait intéressant) je m'attendais à une histoire post apocalyptique vraiment prenante et horrifique. Mais le bouquin ne fait absolument pas peur. Les personnages sont vulgaires et pas du tout attachants (surtout la présidente, quel intérêt de mettre une femme au pouvoir si c'est pour lui donner pour seules répliques des phrases de cul vulgaires ?). L'histoire relate différents évènements qui semblent être liés mais qui sont expliqués dans le résumé, même pas besoin de lire le livre la quatrième de couverture suffit.
Bref, une grosse déception pour moi malheureusement.
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Raptureinbooks
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly well written thriller that had my skin crawling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2017
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The Hatching is one of those books where I simultaneously really wanted to read it and really didn’t want to read it. Yes because it sounded incredibly good and no because spiders. Not a fan of spids; that was my only reservation with this book and I waited until the second book Skitter was nearing release before I read it so I can take my dislike of spiders from one book to the other without having to gear myself back up to read Skitter.

Now, The Hatching is one of, if not the best, horror/thrillers I’ve ever read. No word of a lie when the spiders were being described my skin crawled and the hair on the back of my neck stood on end, the writing itself was incredibly well written and I found myself almost there on the ground with the flesh-eating spiders while they made a meal of some poor unsuspecting sap. I was that sap on a few occasions. My imagination ran absolutely riot with The Hatching.

The Hatching is Ezekiel Boone’s debut novel and what a debut! Outstandingly written and with a plot that will have you shuddering. The premise of the book is flesh-eating spiders and normally you don’t think of spiders as being particularly flesh-eating but these are some kind of weird eusocial species of spider that act more like ants and have only one mission: to destroy.

What follows is one species’ determination to wipe another from the earth and they succeed to some extremes with an almost total desolation of certain areas of the world.

I liked the quick and short chapters set in multiple parts of the world – showing us, the readers, the different points of view from the various integral characters – Melanie Guyer, entomologist, FBI Agent Mike Rich, Stephanie Pilgrim first female president – and the subsequent secondary and tertiary characters. Those different points of view were what part of what made this an excellent book.

This is a highly recommended book and I’ve already started reading the ARC copy of Skitter.
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Cliffs
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on July 2, 2017
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Well written and captivating story. What could have easily been a mishmash of tropes was instead refreshing and entertaining. Three dimensional characters and a focused plot.
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Alyssa Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars A great End of the World novel
Reviewed in Canada on August 20, 2016
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I am eagerly awaiting the next book in this Series. This novel ticked all the boxes for the EOW genre. The cast of characters was plenty and each was built to sustain my interest. The challenge the author set out for himself was met. Oh, and spiders?? Aside from cockroaches what insect can be more creepy? Ancient spiders!
Worth the read and as I said, can't wait for the second installment.
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