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James Herbert

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  • 20-03-2013 10:23pm
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    Hoofball
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭


    Just saw on Sky News that James Herbert passed away this morning.

    It made me think - a battered second hand copy of Rats was one of the first horror books that I read as a young fella and it also put me onto other great authors such as King and Koontz. I always thought his books were really good reads and I've seen his name recommended on a few threads as well...


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    Forest Demon
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    That's sad. I read a lot of his books. He was really good.


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    Paddy Samurai
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    I liked the few that I have read.

    The Spear
    48
    The Rats

    I have The Secret of Crickley Hall on my shelf waiting to be read.

    RIP James


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    Ann22
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    I was heart sorry to hear this, I've enjoyed many of his books. RIP Mr Herbert, a sad loss:(.
    I think these are all the ones I've read...
    Shrine
    The Rats
    Lair
    Domain
    The Magic Cottage
    Haunted
    Fluke
    Fog
    The Dark
    Creed
    The Secret of Crickley Hall
    Ash
    Once
    Others


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    cml387
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    I wouldn't have thought him a great writer, but he was certainly a guilty pleasure. Combine killer rats and a nuclear war and you have all bases covered, and when reading Domain for the first tme I was sort of dreading turning over the page.

    RIP James.


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    8mv
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    I hadn't heard he had died. Didn't read any of his recent books, but I was obsessed for a while in my teens / early 20's. The Rats, The Fog, etc. I really liked Fluke and gave it to my daughter to read as it's unlike most of his other books and has an interesting concept.

    As I get older I see more and more of my early life appearing in the obituaries.


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    Reg'stoy
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    Was really sorry to hear of his passing. The Rats and its follow ups, were like so many others my gateway to horror novels. I hoovered up his, Clive Barker's and King's books as soon as they came out.

    His books Others and Fluke are amoung my favorites, but I have a particular soft spot for Others.


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