![]() Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.īorn in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. ![]() James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. The mutant white rats had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Two in Herbert’s classic ‘rats’ series. ![]()
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