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RIP. Read a huge amount of his work as a teenager, The Rats trilogy was awesome and his books were always good for some low grade smut! Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/2013/03/20/james-herbert-death_n_2916972.html Edited by Dougs at 19:39:25 20-03-2013 |
RIP James Herbert
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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King_Edward 11,470 posts
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Registered 11 years agoOh no! Fluke was the book that started me off on horror stories. Read a lot of his stuff since. What a shame. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah I think Fluke was my first book of his too. Didn't realise he published a new one last week. -
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Registered 16 years agoAlso read a load of his books as a teenager. Very formulaic but loads of blood, guts and sex. What else does a growing boy need, eh?
Oddly, I though Fluke was one of his poorer books. But then that is one of the ones that was turned in to a film, so what do I know?
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Registered 15 years agoOh no. This makes me very sad. Especially as I bought his latest just today. RIP James. So many great stories.
Reading that article it seems we share a birthday. I'll have a drink for you Jim!
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Ged42 7,985 posts
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Registered 14 years agoDamn, really enjoyed Rats, Fluke and 48 as a lad. 
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Registered 18 years agoRIP Mr Herbert
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I don't believe it! Having just been given a kindle for my birthday by my wife last week the first thing I bought was Ash, which I'm now halfway through. That inspired me to buy others of his I've enjoyed in the past so bought a few more, like The Rats, The Dark, Haunted, Ghosts of Sleath and Creed. I was at work today and bored, ended up wiki'ing him and finding out his age. The weirdest part was walking home from work I wondered what it was like to be an author at that age and if he thought that he had just a finite amount of books left to put out.
I then log on here and find he has died. A real shame, his books were some of the first I read, like others on here, when I was young and definitely part of the reason I write now.
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoChopsen wrote:
Fluke was just a bit more mainstream I think. I think I'll hunt down his latest and then read Rats after. Will have to dig it out from the loft though...
Also read a load of his books as a teenager. Very formulaic but loads of blood, guts and sex. What else does a growing boy need, eh?
Oddly, I though Fluke was one of his poorer books. But then that is one of the ones that was turned in to a film, so what do I know?
The 3rd one in the Rats trilogy I remember being particularly good. The one with the nuclear war in it. -
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Registered 15 years agoWhen I was young I flicked through my mother's copy of Once... and read all the sex scenes. What a dirty wee bastard. -
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Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDougs wrote:
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RIP. Read a huge amount of his work as a teenager, The Rats trilogy was awesome and his books were always good for some low grade smut!
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/2013/03/20/james-herbert-death_n_2916972.html
Overuse of the word "rump" was awesome. -
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Registered 20 years agoHe would have become a worldwide superstar author for teenage boys if he had just cut out the horror nonsense and concentrated on the low grade smut! It was never hard to find in library books, they just fell open at the correct pages - the rest were probably stuck together .gif)
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHahaha so true. -
Youthist 14,723 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhat done him? Only 69, so assume Cancer? -
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Registered 16 years agoDidn't think much of Ash, but On the whole I really enjoy his books. RIP. -
jonsaan 27,052 posts
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Registered 15 years agoA very early encounter with the concept of FHUTA in the Rats as I recall. Something about a woman having an affair at work and the cad using her 'anus as a vagina'. Might have been Lair. -
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Registered 15 years agoSad news, the Jonah freaked me out as a kid. R.I.P. James. -
Yes RIP James. His books were required reading for teenagers back in the 80's, due to passages of extreme horror and of course all that sex! -
The Rats horrified me as a kid. Horrified and entranced. -
Like many others here, his books were a staple of my early teens once I'd discovered that adult novels were so much better than the lacklustre teenage stuff I'd been yawning over. Dark, often sadistic and occasionally eyebrow-raisingly rude for a teen, I fucking loved practically everything he did and although his quality varied a little more later on he never wrote anything that I failed to finish.
I was really pleased to see Ash last year after such a long hiatus and although it was far from his best I was looking forward to seeing what he might do next. As it turns out there won't be any more, which saddens me greatly.
Farewell, Mr Herbert. When my own son reaches his early teens I'll be sure to pass on my battered old copy of The Rats (with a stern warning not to tell his mother, of course).
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Registered 14 years agoThe rats, lair, domain. Awesome. Also loved the dark and the fog. -
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Registered 17 years agoOh shit 
Remember Tony at school ruining Haunted for me. I wrote an essay at school on the Rats trilogy. Big part of my teenage life, reading Herbert was.
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Registered 18 years agoDaM wrote:
Lol, that's bang on.
He would have become a worldwide superstar author for teenage boys if he had just cut out the horror nonsense and concentrated on the low grade smut! It was never hard to find in library books, they just fell open at the correct pages - the rest were probably stuck together
@Kal
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Trafford 9,358 posts
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Registered 14 years agoRIP Jim.
Just been reminiscing at work about that golden age of horror writing. Nature gone awry, Jaws started it all I guess, Grizzly, Rats, Crabs, Slugs, Orca, Pirahna. There was even one about a killer Pike in Lake Windermere. -
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Registered 16 years agoOh Bugger..!
As most on here, James Herbert's books got me into reading as a kid.
While my class mates were doing book reports on The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe and other kids books, i was doing mine on The Rats, Lair and The Fog.
I have read so many of his books and enjoyed them all, i was listening to the BBC's version of the Magic Cottage just the other day while cleaning the house.
I remember one about a deformed private detective that was very good..! I would like to read that again.
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Shame, he provided a nice steady diet of gruesome horror and filthy smut. The Rats trilogy was great, as was The Fog, The Dark and '48.
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That's The Others. One of his best I think.
I remember one about a deformed private detective that was very good..! I would like to read that again.
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