The third in the sequence, Domain ( 1980), is a Post-Holocaust novel set after a nuclear catastrophe has wiped out most of mankind and the rats, now further mutated, are in control, a situation explored to more visual effect in the graphic novel The City ( 1994). The chaos continues in Lair ( 1979), where the rats have developed a greater intelligence. His first and still best known novel, The Rats ( 1974), which begins the Rats sequence, is a Disaster novel in which London is overwhelmed by a vicious strain of giant Mutant rats. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.(1943-2013) UK advertising art director and author, best known for bestselling tales of horror, several of which have an sf premise (see Horror in SF). He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant best-seller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction.
Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.īorn in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake.
But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.
The shadow of his past was always with him.
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