The Rats - James Herbert Reviews

God I love these books, not for the faint hearted is my advice!! The story is set in London in about the 70's I think. Its about the outbreak of mutant rats which have been bred from rats on an island in New Guinea that was ravaged by nuclear radiation. The rats have a taste for human blood so as you can imagine its a bit bloody in ...

Rats have always freaked me out a bit - even before I picked this up. In fact it was my fear of rats and the masochistic part of myself that likes to mess around with my head that decided to read it in the first place - you know the part of you that decides to watch a horror film yourself in the house at 2 in the morning with the lights out and ...

I first read this book over twenty years ago when I was working in a hospital. Readers of James Herbert will know that this was not clever of me as I used to work the night shift, alone, and of course I would always be reading it scared to death. The Rats was Herbert's first novel which was first published in the seventies. The story is a little ...

I grew up with my sister being scared to death at night after reading James Herbert books and I never really felt the urge to follow suit. I detoured to Stephen King and Dean Koontz along the way and have finally, just finished my first James Herbert book at the grand old age of 34. In London in the seventies, Harris, an art teacher at ...

I have to confess to not being a great reader. I get bored easily with any book which tries to delve too deeply into the characters or settings at the expense of moving the story on a t a brisk pace. There are exceptions to this, but in the main I tend to steer away from those novels which others would term the ‘classics’. As a result ...

When I first read The Rats by James Herbert I though wow, this is a really cool new book. I was amazed to find out that it was first published in 1974. Having read the book you would have no idea the period it was set in, well obviously it would be fairly recent, but it hadn’t seemed to have aged much in the twenty odd years since it was ...

Now I know why my mrs is so scared of Rats. I'm sure she would be in an early grave if she read this intense story. I absolutely love this book it's defenitly one of Herbets best. It tells the story of a bunch of mutated, extra inteligent black rats that acquire a taste for human flesh. As you know rats breed very quickly and very soon ...

This was the first of James Herberts novels and remains one of the bloodiest, there are countless incidents where he describes in gory detail mutilations where you can actually picture yourself there and feel the terror, some of them really do literally put a shiver down your spine. The story itself centres around London where an imported breed of ...

One Sunday afternoon I found this on a friends bookshelf. As I was a bit bored I decided to read it. Peaceful reading it wasn't! It started off gently enough but it built into an unputdownable book within two chapters, I was hooked, I was frightened to turn each page, yet anxious to get pulled back from the cliff-edge I found myself ...

A charming tale of diseased killer rats munching their way through the population of an area of London. At first these rats appear to be nothing more than just larger than average rats but then the truth becomes clear because even if you get bitten by them and survice then you will probably be dead soon anyway. This a great example of ...

When you think about horror writers the names Stephen King and Dean Koonz always spring to mind. Have you heard of James Herbert he is a British horror writer, and has wrote lots of famous stories such as The Fog, Fluke, The Survivor and loads more. The book I want to write about is The Rats, this is one of my favourite books written ...