James Herbert, OBE (born 8 April 1943, London) is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold over forty-two million copies.
Herbert lives near Brighton with his wife and daughters. He is the son of a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market. He has two brothers; Peter, also a market trade...
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James Herbert, OBE (born 8 April 1943, London) is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold over forty-two million copies.
Herbert lives near Brighton with his wife and daughters. He is the son of a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market. He has two brothers; Peter, also a market trader (retired) and John, an insurance broker.
His first two books, The Rats and The Fog, are disaster novels with man-eating giant black rats in the first and an accidentally released chemical weapon in the second. Herbert has written three sequels to The Rats; Lair deals with a second outbreak of the mutants, this time in the countryside around Epping Forest rather than in the first book's London slums; in Domain, a nuclear war means that the rats have become the dominant species in a devastated city. The third sequel, the graphic novel The City...
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