With its brightly painted houses, tucked between narrow, cobbled streets, the sleepy Kentish seaside town of Deal was considered one of the most photogenic places in England.

Little did the population know that, one fateful summer, they would be visited by something far more horrifying than hoards of tourists; something that didn’t care for Deal’s beauty or tranquillity.

All it cared about was feasting.

Feasting on human flesh.

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