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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.

Neo-Nazi cultists and unholy demonic powers strike out from an evil past to claim the future! When Harry Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy of Neo-Nazi cultists bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world, power rising out of a demonic relic from man's dark primal past to threaten all humanity with horror beyond any nightmare t was in an ancient castle where all-corrupting sex and savage religious rites were practiced by a new master race that Steadman came face-to-face with the cult's twisted, vengeful leader But even as he fought in deadly combat against this bloodthirsty force of diabolical evil, the minions of darkness were tightening their stranglehold of doom, preparing to plunge the entire earth into a maelstrom of violence and hideous hell… This new edition of James Herbert's The Spear comes with a dustjacket, endpapers, and a few interiors by David Ho, and story illustrations by Rodger Gerberding.

T also features an essay, “The Curious Case of the Spear,” by Jo Fletcher, and James Herbert's original prologue to the book, reprinted here for the first time since 1979! This is a fine new hardcover edition of this classic that mixes horror, zombies, occult lore, and a Robert Ludlum-inspired espionage plot, one of Herbert's most engaging and offbeat books ith more James Herbert in the works (The Survivor and The Jonah) you won't want to miss this book!

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 signed copies.
• Special afterword by Jo Fletcher.
• Signed by Jo Fletcher, David Ho, and Rodger Gerberding, with a facsimile signature by James Herbert.
• James Herbert’s original prologue.
• Dustjacket and frontispiece art by David Ho.
• Interior artwork by Rodger Gerberding.
• Illustrated endpapers.
• Top-edge stain.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, bound in Brillianta black cloth.
• Two-color stamping on spine and front boards.
• Smythe-sewn binding.
• Book size 5¼ × 8¼ inches.
• Number of pages: 392.

External Links

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