Series Guide

The Rats

by James Herbert

Herbert's mutant black rats versus a negligent British state, from East End dereliction to post-nuclear Domain: the founding franchise of British paperback horror.

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The Rats

1974 · book 1

The book that founded modern British mass-market horror — the 'nasty' done with real craft and class fury — launching Herbert's career, two sequels and the template for every revolt-of-nature paperback that followed.