It was my kind of stuff – gory, gritty and concentrated. I absolutely BURNED through these as a young adult. They brought forth such blood-soaked imagery like no other author I’d ever read before. These novels filled my imagination when I was younger. With this being Rat Week, I would like to fittingly focus on his books The Rats, Lair and Domain, known tentatively as The Rat Trilogy. When I was in my teens, sometimes two or three books would go by between visits without me knowing the wiser. Whenever my family or I go to the UK, I always make sure a trip to the bookstore is in order. James Herbert isn’t well known on this side of the pond because his works are seldom released here. Herbert’s penchant for graphic mayhem grabbed me right from the first book of his I ever read called The Fog. His fictional England has endured innumerable disasters under his hand and no one fucks up London better than he does. British author James Herbert has always been one of my favourite writers.
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