Pequeños peludos roedores, lentamente masticando su comida. It's everything you can expect from a rat horror novel. A few anticlimactic chapters, but other than that. And again.ĭo you like rats? Well, you are certainly not going to love them more after this one. Something festers inside the house, and now, now it won't be long before it starts to spread out into the city, to feed again. An unwary vagrant enters it, totally oblivious in his own drunkenness, he never made it out. What food? Well, that's another story.Īn old abandoned house in East London, surrounded by trees and bushes, so long inhabited almost no one remembered it was still out there. His novels THE FOG, THE DARK, and THE SURVIVOR have been hailed as classics of the genre.įurry little rodents, slowly chewing their food away. His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.Īs an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese.

James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction.

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