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The Rats: The Chilling, Bestselling Classic from the the Master of Horror (The Rats Trilogy, 1)

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James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) [1] was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 languages, including Chinese and Russian. [2] Biography [ edit ] Ahoy there me mateys! Here I take a second look at a previously enjoyed novel and give me crew me second reflections, as it were, upon visitin' it again . . . In the last couple of days, I had to take a road journey and decided to listen to an audiobook on the way. I wanted something I had previously read before and saw this one was available from the library. The First Mate had never heard of it and I was appalled. I adored the 1982 movie and the book when I was little but hadn't read or watched it in over a decade or more. I got excited to revisit it. Una vieja casa abandonada en el este de Londres, rodeada de árboles y arbustos, deshabitada desde hace tanto tiempo que ya casi nadie recuerda que está ahí afuera. Pero ahí está. Un vagabundo incauto entra, totalmente perdido en su ebriedad, nunca vuelve a salir. Algo putrefacto crece dentro de la casa, y ahora, ahora no va a tardar mucho en esparcirse a través de la ciudad, para alimentarse otra vez. Y otra vez...This book took me a few days to read and the first night after I started it I had a nightmare about something similar to the happenings in the book. I was recommended this book to me by my Dad who absolutely loves it. It like a 1970’s 'Exploitation Movie'. It luxuriates in all its excessive drinking, smoking, overly abundant sex, and strange depictions of silly-brained 1970's women. Herbert's final novel has an eerie political edge. Ash imagines Princess Diana and her secret son as well as Lord Lucan, Colonel Gaddafi and Robert Maxwell living together in a Scottish castle. [15]

Herbert released a new novel virtually every year from 1974 to 1988, wrote six novels during the 1990s and released three new works in the 2000s. "I am very insecure about being a writer", he stated in the book Faces of Fear. "I don't understand why I am so successful. And the longer I stay that way, the better it's going to be, because that's what keeps me on the edge, striving if you like."Something landed on his bonnet with a thump causing him to swing round to the front again. One of the giant rats was staring at him through the windscreen, its evil face almost level with his own, the distance between them only two feet, a thin sheet of glass his only protection. Nobody True continues the theme of life after death, being narrated by a ghost whose investigation of his own death results in the destruction of his illusions about his life. Herbert described Creed as his Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The character Joe Creed is a cynical, sleazy paparazzo who is drawn into a plot involving fed-up and underappreciated monsters. He was the subject of a This is Your Life programme in 1995, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the London Dungeon. [ citation needed] Reception [ edit ] Spark, Alasdair (1993). "Horrible Writing: the Early Fiction of James Herbert". In Bloom, Clive (ed.). Creepers: British Horror & Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. London: Pluto Press. pp.147–160. ISBN 9780745306650.

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