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The Rats

James Herbert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:3rd Oct '24

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The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the bestselling horror classic.

A special 50th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling horror novel The Rats

‘The Rats is splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love it still'‘ – Stephen King, author of The Shining and Carrie

The first victim was a former paper salesman drinking himself into oblivion down by the docks. Next a child and her beloved dog, then six drifters fighting over a bottle of gin - all devoured by a black, writhing mass of giant rats.

As London descends into panicked chaos, high school teacher Harris is pulled head-first into the nightmare when a student arrives with a rat bite on his hand. And he quickly realises that this is no ordinary creature, nothing like anyone has ever seen before.

With their intelligent, wicked-looking eyes and razor-sharp teeth, the balance of power between man and rat has suddenly - shockingly, horribly - shifted.

The rats have had their first taste of human blood.

And they're hungry for more . . .

‘Lean, mean, and nasty as punk, The Rats are here! Capable of inciting riots and causing bloodshed‘ - Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

‘A seminal work from a king of British horror‘ - Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual

With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, New York Times bestselling author of Good Omens

The Rats is splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love it still -- Stephen King
Lean, mean, and nasty as punk, The Rats are here! Capable of inciting riots and causing bloodshed -- Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
A one-off; a true horror original -- Peter James, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Roy Grace books
A seminal work from a king of British horror -- Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
One of the more fecund of all horror novels: its children are many, its litter both large and ravenous -- Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
Herbert's The Rats is a big personal influence of mine. If you're a horror reader seeking to delve into the history of the genre, it's one of a handful of books you really ought to read -- Nick Cutter author of The Troop
The effectiveness of the gruesome set pieces and brilliant finale are all its own -- The Sunday Times
With The Rats, Herbert established himself as a master of the sort of apocalyptic horror that's so popular today -- The Guardian
The Rats is a delightfully gory James Herbert classic -- SciFiWard

ISBN: 9781035048090

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 13mm

Weight: 150g

208 pages