very sad news for all those who love a horror book to read on their Holiday. THE holiday horror novelist. I don’t mean that dismissively. No holiday is a holiday without a James Herbert book. Still remember backpacking on my own in Somerset in a bunk barn, falling asleep reading The Spear. having to walk about for 30 minutes before I went to sleep again cos of the horrible nightmare that woke me. Let’s not even mention rodents…

He was never gonna win the booker, but if you wanted something gripping and gruesome to bury yourself in on the beach. Look no further…

Rats 😡

RIP – oh the irony. 🙂

Aye, loved the horror stuff but always had a soft spot for “Fluke”.
A sad loss.

that’s a shame.

i always have memories about his fog book (and live near salisbury plain too 😯

Fluke, The Rats and many more – great writer and will be missed

Fluke for me too

Currently got Creed on my Note 2. Only a couple of chapters in though

RIP

The Rats trilogy, of which Domain was the best. And The Fog for some adolescent hand shandy.

Oh god, I’d missed that there were sequels, just hoovered up what I found in 2nd book shops. Now I’m going to have to read them and not sleep.

Weren’t they all good for a hand shandy? Which one was it when the main character got some back door action in the stationary cupboard?

The Rats, Lair, Domain.

Memories of reading The Fog as a young teenager…

[cracks knuckles]

Creed was a good read, as was Sepulchre.

Creed would have made a good film, I reckon.

He’d been I’ll for quite some time. I wonder how The Rats would’ve been revised for these days of GMOs? Time for some fan fiction?

Read The Fog as a young teenager, scared the life out of me.

RIP.

Sepulchre was my favourite.

Herbert was the spit of a friend I knew in the eighties…

Fluke also. One of my first ‘ big boy, read without mummy ‘ books as a kid.

Domain! I’ve been trying to remember that book for ages!
Sad news though.

sad news indeed, The Rats, was one of the first adult boks i read,and i remember my mum reading it until she got to the bit with the young lad and the older gentleman,

I liked Moon. Sad news RIP.

Ireally rated The Dark. Really opressive mood throughout.

Ah yes, The Dark! Another good ‘un.

Sad.

Not as good as Stephen King but better than Shaun Hutson.

Fluke is still one of my all-time favourites. Enjoyable and original. RIP

Agreed – Fluke is very clever.

Shaun hutson isnt that stephen king ghost writing

The rats was a work of genuis

Shaun Hutson? Not a chance. He (SK) wrote as Richard Bachman I think.

Shaun Hutson was a pubescent James Herbert.

(And as Richard Bachman all the heroes die, as King they generally live). Short stories are always better at delivering less expected conclusions. 🙂

Flluke, Rats & Fog..

RIP JH.

Sepulchre, Moon, The Magic Cottage, Creed, and not forgetting 48.

They were all truly excellent books.

Thank you James.

sad news RIP,

I’ve read all of them although the most recent, Ash, really started to Annoy me at the end, just wasn’t very well written.

The Rats series were my favourite although Moon was good, had great fun spotting locations as it was written when he lived in Guernsey.

Moon, The Spear, The Jonah and Once…

Might reread Once… in tribute.

RIP and thanks for the books.

+1 for The Magic Cottage, read it a couple of times over the years – unusual for me so something of a testament… RIP Sir.