James Herbert

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Title: Sepulchre: Description:
There is a house that holds a dreadful secret. "The Keeper", the psychic and the secret serve a force which threatens mankind itself.

Title: Domain: Description:
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only benneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats are waiting.

Title: '48: Description:
Excellent Herbert thriller set in a London where only a handful of people are left alive after Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. They are hunted as it is believed they carry the cure. Exciting to the end.

Title: Shrine: Description:
"A little girl called Alice, a deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering whote who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak. And she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath the ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries-old. Innocence and evil have become one."

Title: The Ghosts Of Sleath: Description:
Can a ghost haunt a ghost? Can the dead reach out and touch the living? Can ancient evil be made manifest? Sleath. Where the dead will walk the streets

Title: Once: Description:
Once is the latest in the welcome new phase of James Herbert's career after he distanced himself from the straightforward "horror" tag afforded to him by earlier novels such as the Rats trilogy and cannily reinvented himself as a writer with considerably more psychological insight and elegance of style. Trading on a grotesque reinvention of fairy stories, Herbert has his protagonist Thorn Kindred encountering witches, goblins and demons, and being obliged to turn to some very strange sources to save his soul. The new ambitiousness of Herbert's writing may be found in the underpinning of the narrative here: this is a grim and persuasively realised spin on Nietzsche's epigram: "When fighting monsters, beware of becoming one yourself." But long-time readers needn't worry about a lack of grisly chills: Herbert is too fine a writer not to keep us permanently on the edge of our proverbial seats. And he's better than ever at orchestrating his fear-filled climaxes, so that there is a carefully worked out structure to the book that never has the stop-and-start jerkiness of the early novels. Rather in the nature of Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, fairy tale motifs are exploded and reconstituted in this dark and erotic fable. After reading Once, fairy tales will never seem the same again. --Barry Forshaw

Title: Moon: Description:
Guaranteed to give you nightmares.

Title: The Shrine: Description:
A little girl called Alice. A deaf mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak. And she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries-old. Innocence and evil have become one.

Title: Lair: Description:
The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Now the dark rats were restless, and the white slug-like thing that ruled them remembered the taste of human flesh.

Title: The Dark: Description:
It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power and somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned. Asylum inmates slaughter their attendants while the lights fade and humanity is attacked by an ancient evil.

Title: The Magic Cottage: Description:
A cottage was found in the heart of the forest. It was charming maybe, a little run-down, but so peaceful - a magical haven for creativity and love. But the cottage had an alternative side - the bad magic. What happened there was horrendous beyond belief.

Title: The Jonah: Description:
The shadow of his past was always with him, but he never knew what it was or when it would strike next. Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso soon found his life - and his sanity - in great danger.

Title: The Fog: Description:
The peaceful life of a Wiltshire village is shattered when an earthquake releases a cloud of strange fog that drives people insane. There is only one man who can control the violence that has been unleashed.

Title: Creed: Description:
Synopsis Turbo Charged And Spewing Black Fumes' Daily Mail; Sometimes horror is in the mind And sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for Joe Creed. He'd just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price. Because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on him. And it wasn't very funny. It was deadly...

Title: Creed: Description:
Creed is a photographer who specializes in catching celebrities in off-guard moments outside night-clubs or on topless beaches. He thinks he has seen it all. But he is about to see something through the viewfinder of his camera that will plunge him into a terrifying world beyond imagining.

Title: Nobody True: Description:
The title Nobody True is a complicated set of puns on its own plot; adman Jimmy True has no body because he was off on one of his regular astral jaunts when someone stuck him through the heart and carved him up like meat. His rather privileged position as an invisible observer of his own murder investigation enables him to discover uncomfortable truths about almost everyone he knows--his wife, his young daughter, his business partner--and a darker set of truths about the serial killer whose victim he appears to be. Jimmy has many problems with trust--his paranoid mother and absent father have seen to that--and at first his posthumous experiences confirm all his worst dreads. This is a book about learning valuable lessons and not thinking simple versions of the truth are necessarily the most accurate ones; it is among the most odd Herbert horror thrillers and like several of his best books has an attractive emotional core underneath all the gore and nightmare. Occasional wordiness and too much occultist waffle about dreaming, death and soul travel do not stop this also being intermittently one of his most gripping. --Roz Kaveney

Title: The Magic Cottage: Description:
We thought we'd found our haven, a cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Charming, maybe a little run down, but so peaceful. That was the first part of the magic. Midge's painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the magic. Our love for each other - well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage had an alternative side. The Bad Magic. What happened to us there was horrendous beyond belief. The healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats - oh God, the bats! Even now those terrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened..................

Title: Fluke: Description:
Horror

Title: The Survivor: Description:
Horror

Title: Haunted: Description:
Spooky happenings in a decrepit old country house, a cynical psychic investigator is dispatched to find out once and for all what is really going on. I don't think I need to say any more than that. You'll probably guess the "twist" in the tail after only the first fifty pages. This is a good book, by James Herbert's standards, dealing more with tension than gore.

Title: The Spear: Description:
when steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy of neo-Nazi cultists..

Title: Moon.shine.the Dark.fluke: Description:
four macabre novels of evil and the supernatural from the master of horror, Jmes Herbert, collected in one spine-chilling volume

Title: Portent: Description:
Something incredible is about to happen..........

Title: Others: Description:
A book that starts in Hell has got to be expertly paced, and no-one has ever accused British King of Horror James Herbert of lacking any of those skills. Hardly has a damned soul agreed to an angelic offer he cannot refuse than Nicholas Dismas is limping down the mean streets of contemporary Brighton searching for a child who may not even exist. Nicholas has only one eye and is short, lame and hunchbacked; he finds himself living daily with the hatred a society obsessed with normality dishes out to those who cannot conform. This is a book about exploitation and prejudice which touches some raw nerves; it makes you think as well as making you shudder. Dismas--who feels sorry for himself but not too much of the time--is one of the more three-dimensional characters in Herbert's work, and his love for the tiny and beautiful Constance is genuinely touching while not entirely avoiding sentimentality. There is horror of a classic visceral kind here--one of Dismas's colleagues dies in a peculiarly vile fashion--and a nursing home turns out to contain a real heart of darkness, but the real horror is the shabby ways in which people treat each other. --Roz Kaveney

Title: Portent: Description:
A PORTENT - A sign of unimaginable powers about to be unleashed. This is a novel of terrifying vision awesome power that takes us to the brink of mankind's darkest nightmare.

Title: Spear, The: Description:
A horror novel, in which Neo-Nazi cultists are bent on unleashing an unholy power which will threaten humanity.

Title: The Survivor: Description:
David Keller is the Survivor-the only person to escape from the flaming wreckage of a 747 jumbo jet...It was an accident whose aftermath leaves a lingering sense of evil and menace in the quiet countryside.....

Title: Nobody True: Description:
In this novel, Jim True has been murdered but he is still aware. Freed from his body Jim pursues his killer to discover why and how he has managed to survive. As he closes in, he discovers a web of betrayal and meets his killer - and the killer can also leave his body at will.

Title: The Secret Of Crickley Hall: Description:
The Caleighs have had a terrible year...They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work and Eve and the kids can have some peace and quiet and perhaps they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what's happened to them...Crickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil's Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge - the stuff of local legend. A river flows past the front garden. It's perfect for them...if a bit gloomy. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. And old houses do make sounds. And it's constantly cold. And even though they shut the cellar door every night, it's always open again in morning..."The Secret of Crickley Hall" is James Herbert's finest novel to date. It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. From the Publisher The Secret of Crickley Hall is James Herbert’s finest novel to date. It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation – one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From the Inside Flap There is an old, empty house in Devil’s Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay. The house is Crickley Hall and it’s large and grim, somehow foreboding. It’s rumoured to be haunted. It’s thought to hold a secret. Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon, seeking peace and perhaps to come to terms with what’s happened to them as a family. But all is not well with the house. They hear unaccountable noises. A cellar door they shut every night is always open again in the morning. They see things that cannot be real. The house is the last place the Caleighs should have come to, for the terror that unfolds is beyond belief. Soon they will discover the secret horror of Crickley Hall . . . --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From the Back Cover She watched as Gabe made a great ceremony of pressing the big china-white doorbell that was surrounded by a ring of discoloured brass between the wall and the right-hand pilaster. They all heard a rusty electric burr from inside.‘What are you doing?’ she asked.‘Just letting the ghosts know we’re here, hon.’Dad, there’s no such thing, chided Loren, indignant again.‘Sure of that?’Eve was impatient. ‘Come on, Gabe, open up.’ She wondered if the inside was as austere as the exterior.Holding the key in his left hand, Gabe pushed at the huge iron leopard-head door knocker with his right hand and, without a single creak, the heavy door swung open. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About the Author James Herbert is not just Britain's No. 1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction, a position he has held since publication of his first novel, but is one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-five other languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty novels have sold more than fifty million copies worldwide. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Title: Haunted: Description:
Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook - three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting will be victim of horrifying and maleficent games; three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past; three nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin. Remember with fear!

Title: Others: Description:
My redemption began in hell

Title: The Spear: Description:
When Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy of neo-Nazi cultists bent on unleashing and age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world.

Title: Once: Description:
Remember the fairy stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons ...What if one day you found they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real? That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him. But so were the horrors, for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad. And the Bad had designs on Thom. The Bad would show him real evil. He would see the 'hellhagges' and the demons. He would be touched by perverted passion. And corruption. And he would encounter his own worst nightmare. The Bad would seek to destroy him. And only the magic of the little beings would be able to help him. Once, James Herbert's masterful novel of love, lust and darkest horror, will take you to a realm where fantasy and reality collide, where fairy tales really can come true.

Title: The Magic Cottage: Description:
A young couple leave the city to live in a cottage in the heart of a forest. He is a musician and she is an artist. But it wasn't long before they discovered the cottage had bad magic. James Herbert is the author of "The Rats", "Lair", "Domain", "The Fog", "Moon", "The Survivor" and "The Spear".

Title: Sepulchre: Description:
There is a house...that holds a dark and dreadful secret. There is a psychic who lives in that house who is part of its secret. There is a guardian of the house, and of the psychic, and of the secret. Together, in unholy union, whey serve a force whose existence threatens mankind itself.

Title: Haunted: Description:
David Ash, a psychic investigator is invited to an alleged haunted house. At this house there is a mystery which cannot be easily explained. Over three hideous nights of terror, Ash is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs and the house's dreadful secret is disclosed.

Title: Portent: Description:
Climatologist James Rivers discovers the horrifying truth behind what appears to be a series of natural disasters - torrential floods, killer hailstorms, tsunamis, and vicious flash fires - when he meets the children. Original...

Title: The Ghosts Of Sleath: Description:
Psychic investigator David Ash, a man burdened by the dark secret of his own past, is sent to Sleath to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of insanity. The incidents grow worse until, in a final night of horror, awesome and malign forces are unleashed in a supernatural storm that threatens to consume the village itself. For Sleath as not what is seems. And the dead have returned for a reason...

Title: Creed: Description:
'Turbo Charged and Spewing Black Fumes' Daily Mail; Sometimes horror is in the mind. And sometimes it's real Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for Joe Creed. He'd just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price. Because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on him. And it wasn't very funny. It was deadly...

Title: The Dark: Description:
First published in 1980, this horror tale from the bestselling author of "The Fog" begins when 37 mutilated bodies are found inside a Victorian house. The house is knocked down but there remains a terror which spreads to invade the minds of men and drive a whole city into a frenzy of destruction.

Title: The Rats: Description:
London is struck by an invasion. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. A state of emergency is declared. Evacuation seems the only solution in the face of a growing panic and mounting death toll. War is declared on the public enemy number one. The Rats!

Title: Creed: Description:
Creed is a photographer who specializes in catching celebrities in off-guard moments outside night-clubs or on topless beaches. He thinks he has seen it all. But he is about to see something through the viewfinder of his camera that will plunge him into a terrifying world beyond imagining.

Title: The Ghosts Of Sleath: Description:
This breathtakingly original and powerful story immediately lays claim to being James Herbert's finest work yet. Chillingly disturbing, people with memorable characters and studded with unforgettable scenes, The Ghosts of Sleath is the work of one of our foremost popular writers, at the height of his powers.

Title: Creed: Description:
With this, his 15th novel, James Herbert has added both a fine comic touch and a searing eroticism to his acknowledged genius as a master of chilling suspense.

Title: The Survivor: Description:
A plane crash kills over 300 people and leaves only one survivor. The dead are buried and the town of Eton tries to forget. But one man cannot rest. Keller has walked from the flames of the wreck and is driven to seek the answer to his own survival. By the author of "The Fog" and "Moon".

Title: Nobody True: Description:
The title Nobody True is a complicated set of puns on its own plot; adman Jimmy True has no body because he was off on one of his regular astral jaunts when someone stuck him through the heart and carved him up like meat. His rather privileged position as an invisible observer of his own murder investigation enables him to discover uncomfortable truths about almost everyone he knows--his wife, his young daughter, his business partner--and a darker set of truths about the serial killer whose victim he appears to be. Jimmy has many problems with trust--his paranoid mother and absent father have seen to that--and at first his posthumous experiences confirm all his worst dreads. This is a book about learning valuable lessons and not thinking simple versions of the truth are necessarily the most accurate ones; it is among the most odd Herbert horror thrillers and like several of his best books has an attractive emotional core underneath all the gore and nightmare. Occasional wordiness and too much occultist waffle about dreaming, death and soul travel do not stop this also being intermittently one of his most gripping. --Roz Kaveney

Title: The Rats, Lair & Domain: Description:
3 Stories in one book a brilliant read

Title: James Herbert Remember With Fear: Description:
A collection of 6 James Herbert Books Creed The Fog The Spear Haunted The Magic Cottage Moon I recieved this as a gift but already own all of Herberts books so they have never even been opened.