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James Herbert, OBE (1943-2013) was a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. His first two books, The Rats and The Fog, are disaster novels. Ith his third novel, the ghost story The Survivor, Herbert used supernatural horror rather than the science fiction horror of his first two books. In Shrine, he explored his Roman Catholic heritage with the story of an apparent miracle which turns out to be something much more sinister. He Spear deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and an arms dealer.

James Herbert, OBE (1943-2013) was a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. With his third novel, the ghost story The Survivor, Herbert used supernatural horror rather than the science fiction horror of his first two books. His first two books, The Rats and The Fog, are disaster novels. In Shrine, he explored his Roman Catholic heritage with the story of an apparent miracle which turns out to be something much more sinister.

A few years after The Fog, James Herbert again decided to tackle the idea of a impenetrable thick substance that drives people to madness and evil Unlike The Fog, however, The Dark takes time to discuss, on a philosophical level, the nature and problem of evil he result is one of Herbert's best novels, with solid characterization, excellent suspense, and thoughtful meditations on the nature of man.

The Dark is an ambitious novel, here reprinted with a fine new introduction by Brian Hodge, a cover by Gustav Klimt, the original Signet paperback art, a bonus short story by Herbert, and a long interview with Herbert from 1984 This is a big, thick book with a lot of art, marbled endsheets, ribbon marker, printed front cloth, and beautiful back cloth from Europe Signed by James Hebert and Brian Hodge, limited to just 150 copies for sale.

Edition Details

• Limited to 150 copies, each signed by James Herbert and Brian Hodge.
• Introduction by Brian Hodge.
• A bonus short story.
• An interview with James Herbert by Lisa Tuttle.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Dark. Centipede Press page for The Dark
• James Herbert (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for James Herbert