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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.

James Herbert's sequel to The Rats, Lair, was first published in 1979 in the United Kingdom and the United States, and featured a new cast of heroes and the steady maturation of Herbert's writing style Characterizations and action are more ably handled, and this sequel is in many ways superior to the original he work of James Herbert (1943-2013) is now recognized, thanks largely to the efforts of Ramsey Campbell and Stephen King, as a significant contribution to the field.

This is the first time Lair been published in hardcover in the United States, and as such it is a true first edition This is also the definitive edition, with reproductions (in color) of old hardcover and paperback editions, and illustrations by David Ho and Jason C myth sewn, with head and tail bands, ribbon marker, and full color dustjacket with extra-long flaps.

Set in Caslon, the book is 6 × 9 inches imited to 300 copies, each book is signed by Jason C Eckhardt and David Ho, along with a Herbert-family-approved James Herbert facsimile signature.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Jason C. Eckhardt and David Ho.
• Front image pastedown on cover.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full European cloth construction.

External Links

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