![]() ![]() The novel begins with a brief and ominous description of an abandoned house in London. This is the 1991 New English Library (UK) paperback reprint of “The Rats” that I read. Needless to say, this review may contain some SPOILERS. But, although I had thought about re-reading “Domain” ( seriously, it’s almost as bleakly terrifying as “ Threads“), I’d been meaning to re-read “The Rats” for ages. I also read the two sequels ( “Lair” and “Domain”) around that time too. Like pretty much everyone who has read “The Rats”, I first read it when I was about fourteen or so. Smith’s “Crabs” novels all taking inspiration from “The Rats”. Linaker’s “ Scorpion“, Richard Lewis’ “ Devil’s Coach-Horse” and Guy N. In addition to being the forerunner of the splatterpunk genre, it also sparked something of a trend for stories about giant vermin in British horror fiction during the late 1970s and the 1980s, with novels like Shaun Hutson’s “Slugs” novels, Michael R. I am, of course, talking about James Herbert’s 1974 novel “The Rats”. Well, for the next novel in this month’s horror marathon, I thought that I’d re-read an influential novel in the history of modern horror fiction. ![]()
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