The Book of Shells…Sounds innocent enough for a book title, maybe
a memoir of long walks on the beach and the treasures found there. But what if…what
if it were about creatures like hermit crabs…creatures that inhabit the bodies
of larger and larger creatures, that take over and kill the host mind and live
inside their ‘empty’ shells?
They could start out small, a worm here, a fly, a
cockroach, innocuous and harmless to us really, that is until they grow to a
size that demands a bigger shell to live in. Then the Book of Shells becomes a totally
different kind of memoir. Instead of a colorful selection of sandy treasures of
the shore it becomes a list of the bodies that these creatures have inhabited,
the creatures that they killed and then paraded around inside, disguised in
their bigger and bigger shells. Sounds like a good book. Reminds me of the movie
Fallen, with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. In it a devil inhabits bodies
of other beings. Good flick that. Fallen IMBD page
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