The Dark

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Now a little back ground here - I first read Herbert as I started to explore outside science fiction and found horror, now at the time horror or at least those books on the second hand markets were all gaudy eye grabbing extremes which when you read then often offered little extra. He has some psychic powers, despite the fact that he doesn’t really believe in them, and he finds himself witnessing all sorts of horrible things, including some brutal killings. I really enjoyed it and wasn't left hanging as you are with a lot of these themed books so a 4/5 for me. His books start with a bang and will keep you turning page after page leaving you disappointed that it’s finished, as you will find in weeks to come with my series of James Herbert book reviews.

The best of James Herbert (27 books) - Goodreads The best of James Herbert (27 books) - Goodreads

Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese.I'm not a fan of giving up on a book, but I've been dragging with this one and I don't know that I want to keep reading. The killer however is aware of this fact and uses this opportunity to mess with Childes while getting their sick pleasure out of it. It does not take long, however, before you start to tire from the boring direction you know it is going to take. The Dark" is the first novel in a long time to tap into one of my childhood fears and actually made me start at some of the sounds my house makes at night (though I'm pretty sure those sounds were from the ice maker!

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Perhaps it was because he - annoyingly - cut down considerably on all the blood and gore which were such a big trademark of his earlier works. As I always find thrillers boring, I can’t blame my boredom on the book itself; there were chases, escapes, an excruciatingly long scene about a fire, and a final showdown complete with ghosts trailing all their viscera. Various biographical and critical pieces by and about Herbert have been collected in James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, edited by Stephen Jones, and also in James Herbert – Devil in the Dark, written by Craig Cabell. In James Herbert's The Dark, madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil . Herbert’s books delve into the depths of extreme paranormal activity, with genetic mutations, possessed and haunted houses, possessed people, astroplaning, crazy psychotic children into torture and murder and paranormal investigators.Along with the 'Rats' series, Herbert has written many standalone novels exploring different themes within the horror and fantasy genres.