The Fog mostly consists of short horrifying scenes where you see what the fog does to people. These outrageous snippets are not just crammed in the book. They have a purpose in the overall story and they are placed well within the book to show the horror and degradation the fog brings with it. Depending on your personal opinion, you could consider these as either an opportunity for people to get their (un)deserved revenge or simply revealing their true terrible personalities. Nobody True continues the theme of life after death, being narrated by a ghost whose investigation of his own death results in the destruction of his illusions about his life. Herbert described Creed as his Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The character Joe Creed is a cynical, sleazy paparazzo who is drawn into a plot involving fed-up and underappreciated monsters.

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This was my second James Herbert book, the first having been Moon, which was probably not the greatest place to start with this author. The Fog is bigger and badder, and the action rarely lets you come up for air. a b c d Cabell, Craig (2003). James Herbert: Devil in the Dark. London, England: John Blake Publishing. p.266. ISBN 1-84358-059-4. I liked the main character Rivers but felt his story with the "badguy of the book" was kinda shoved in between detailing of the world exploding in different places. Herbert stated in later interviews that he wrote the book primarily as a pastime: "It seemed like a good idea at the time, I was as naive as that." [1] The manuscript was typed by Herbert's wife Eileen, who sent it off after nine months to nine different publishers. [1] Reception [ edit ] Breakfast", about a woman who continues with her chores after Armageddon, was originally a chapter of Domain that was excised from some editions of the novel. In: Masterton 1989 and Jones 1992.Some characters get their revenge whether they deserve it or not: a poacher gets his revenge on a rightful owner who had beaten him up, a neglected hard-working woman gets hers on her drunk spendthrift husband, a man who after years of cheating his wife goes to kill a man she fell in love with (I was annoyed by this one the most). Halloween's Child" was an original story first published in the Daily Mail. In Etchison 1991a& 1991b and Jones 1992.

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Herbert's final novel has an eerie political edge. Ash imagines Princess Diana and her secret son as well as Lord Lucan, Colonel Gaddafi and Robert Maxwell living together in a Scottish castle. [15] When I was a teen I can remember reading Clive Cussler. Now maybe I’m doing a disservice to nautical Clive, but for me he became the benchmark of this kind of uninspiring thriller. He is one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his novels have sold more than 55 million copies worldwide. Finally (to let out my OCD side a bit), typos and other errors were scarce, unlike in so many works published today. Nevertheless, you do get oddities like: 'uneaven pace' (p. 159), 'load and clear' (for ' loud and clear' [p. 207]), the admittedly common enough 'comprised of' (p. 266) and '...he pulled farther [sic] towards him until their bodies touched' (p. 190) - surely, he meant 'closer'? The opening chapters to Moon are fairly slowly paced, it takes its time and has no problem keeping the mystery and main themes of the book hidden for a while. Once things get going and the cards slowly began to reveal themselves I was hooked, The main idea here being a logical man finding himself to possess a power that links his mind to that of a murderer is cool and had me set for cat and mouse thriller, sadly it doesn't pan out that way.I read some James Herbert books as a teenager, and quite liked them. I mean, of course I did: the library had only a limited collection of horror, and his were one of the most gory ones there. Potter, Adam Lee (5 September 2012). "James Herbert: My new thriller about Princess Diana's secret son". Daily Express . Retrieved 1 September 2017. James Herbert's "Portent" is the story of climatologist James (Jim) Rivers, eccentric researcher Hugo Poggs, Hugo's daughter-in-law Diane, her two adopted (seemingly telepathic) Romanian twins Eva and Josh, and the leader of a strange New Orleans cult Mama Petié. This is a book of two halves. The first half I struggled to stay interested. Jon Childes is a man running from his past. A reluctant psychic who solved a murder case but resulted in divorce and publicity he did not want. So he now lives on a channel island teaching computer science at several schools. This has led him to repress and avoid his psychic ability.

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From reading both, it’s obvious that trips aboard really scuttled James Herbert as a writer. Here he manages to conjure foreign locales with all the depth of a holiday brochure. Making it seem like the author had been to these places, but for two hours sight-seeing in between duty-free shopping. There’s zero depth to the portrayal, instead – in the various depictions of poor non-white people around the world – there is the unmistakable whiff of casual racism. Dun dun! The whole thing sounds like that, like the voiceover for the trailer for a shitty movie. But it gets so much worse! Brace yourself, because I have a sex scene for you: to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity. The incidents grow worse until, in the final night of horror, awesome and malign forces are unleashed in a

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I always have loved British humor, having grown up with the likes of Monty Python and Benny Hill, and have only recently discovered that their horror is wonderful as well. I guess it was bound to happen. James Herbert was perhaps the best known modern British horror authors, and I can see why!