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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.

The first novel of James Herbert, The Rats was an immediate hardcover and paperback bestselling sensation that spawned two sequels Simultaneously praised for is reinvention of horror as more immediate and graphic, and derided for its gratuitous violence and non-literary writing, The Rats nevertheless raised serious issues about government response to horror, particularly when the horror happens to lower-class citizens 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 The Rats been published in hardcover in the United States, and as such it is a true first edition This is also the definitive edition, with a lengthy, heavily- myth sewn, with head and tail bands, ribbon marker, and full color dustjacket with extra-long flaps.

Set in Caslon, the book is 384 pages and is 6 × 9 inches imited to 300 copies, each book is signed by Stephen Jones, 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 Stephen Jones, Jason C. Eckhardt, and David Ho.
• Fascinating introduction by Stephen Jones.
• Front image pastedown on cover.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full European cloth construction.

External Links

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