On the outskirts of London, in Epping forest, slightly strange goings on with the wildlife occur, and after a particularly bad omen, it becomes clear something strange is going on. The following quotes relate the highlights of a section where a protagonist waking up in hospital room in an underground shelter which is suddenly being flooded and invaded by mutant rats.

Williamson, J.N., ed. (1987). Masques II: All-New Stories of Horror and the Supernatural. Baltimore: Maclay & Assoc. ISBN 978-0-940776-24-1. Herbert became inspired to write The Rats in early 1972, while watching Tod Browning's Dracula; specifically, after seeing the scene in which Renfield describes his recurring nightmare about hordes of rats. Linking the film to childhood memories he had of rats in London's East End. Moreover, James Herbert continues as he has throughout the rest of the series – with each additional book, the rats become more. There is more horror to be found, the creatures having developed even further. By the end, we get to see what the series has been building towards throughout, we get to see just how creepy James Herbert can make the creatures. There are also "mystical" characters connected to the story - there are many kids who have to power to heal the earth, and there is a Dream Man who appears in the childrens dreams. Also there is Mama Pitie, a huge woman from New Orleans who has a church that worships the earth - by Mama Pitie is a very vile and evil person - who seeks to destroy anyone who would save people; she believe she is saving the earthNo puedo entender por qué Herbert lo publicó. Es MUY inferior al promedio, incluso para estándares de comic. Supongo que debe haber estado realmente desesperado por dinero, porque es la única razón entendible para que esta *cosa* sea publicada. Personaje inrelacionable, visuales horribles, casi inexistente trama. Tristemente puedo decir que vi cosas peores, pero no muchas. Evadir a cualquier costo. An excellent horror story with supernatural overtones. Bishop is a psychic investigator who goes to Beechwood a house in the London suburbs where 37 people killed themselves. He has a vision of what happened and we enter a rabbit hole where a scientist has created an evil through the dark. Events of murder, suicide and violence slowly begin where people are infected or influenced to do evil acts by the dark. They also become zombies once their infected. The police and army are helpless as the craziness spreads throughout London. And this brings me on to the artwork -after all it is a graphic novel. Ian Miller is a very talented artist - some of his illustrations for Games Workshop for example are defining pieces which I think played no small part in the companies success in its early days. However they are incredible stark and imposing and at times I feel detract from the story. It has been five years since the sanguinary rat invasion of London city. Barely escaping extermination, a few rat survivors slowly start to thrive again in a nearby forest. Poison resistant, stronger, more cunning and vicious than ever before. A few key people may be the only thing that might stop them, if they somehow manage not to get swarmed and ferociously chewed to pieces in the process. Francis, Clare; Upton, Ondine, eds. (1996). A Feast of Stories. London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-0-333-65340-1.

This concludes what is often seen as the Rats trilogy (as I have said before there is a short graphic novel set in the same universe - which is actually the 4th part) and of all of them this is the bleakest - I guess Mr Herbert wanted to go out on a high note. Unfortunately this book fell flat for me. After my critisms of the previous books I found myself missing all the things that were little annoyances and wanted some absolute nonsense every now and again. a b Plint, Alec (21 March 2013). "20 things you didn't know about James Herbert". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 21 March 2013.a b c d Holland, Steve (21 March 2013). "James Herbert obituary". Guardian.co.uk. London . Retrieved 24 March 2013.

Overall, I enjoyed Lair a lot more than I enjoyed The Rats. I was eager to dive into Lair because of a curiosity as to what came next, whereas my eagerness to dive into Domain is based upon an investment in the story. This was an interesting read, however it is longer than the first two novels, I also found the nuclear plot an interesting concept, unfortunately for me a lot of this book plods along at a snails pace, apart from Culver there isn't many other interesting characters and a lot of the plot is them holed up in bunkers, it did have its moments though, and maybe it's just me as I noticed a lot of people seem to have this as their favourite of the saga, so maybe I will give it a re-read and hopefully my outcome changes, but at the moment, it's definitely my least favourite of the Rats series. So suffice to say that there were some elements here that I probably wouldn’t have gone with myself, but then I didn’t write it and so what can you do? Actually, it’s a pretty good example of the kind of book that I want to write, although I think I would have thrown a little more humour in to try to offset the bleakness of the climate change stuff. Portent by James Herbert was a blast to read. I love disaster novels and movies, and this was a disaster novel like none other that I have read. Any kind of natural disaster that can occur on Earth happened in detail in this book. I read this book in two sittings and hated to put it down even once. The story is fascinating and Herbert’s explanation for why things are happening is worthy of Crichton in my opinion.A touch longer than the first book, we again get to meet a multitude of characters, some for the long run and others, a brief introduction before they are served up with a Béarnaise sauce at the vermin barbecue. There is some pretty scary moments in the Lair, the feeling that the rats are watching from the grass, from the trees, ready to pounce and again we have our hero. This time it's personnel, our hero lost his family in the first wave of the rat campaign and he's hurting. He does however want stunning with a shovel as is the case with most heroes, but stupid is as stupid does and he's destined to step into the breach, the Rats Lair. The Rats (1974) is a horror novel by British writer James Herbert. This was Herbert's first novel and included graphic depictions of death and mutilation. As with many classics, and don’t dare suggest the Rats series is anything but, you’ve got some mental hoops to jump. Here there are touches of racism, though rare, and there’s misogyny, subtle and screaming, both not so rare. Mostly, these are eye roll moments that demonstrate a period in the not-so-distant past. Climb over these altogether, or note them and move on, and you’ve got a pretty fun ride. Not a bad Herby this one, and I didn't mind the ambitious world spanning locations, either. I like to think a JH book that leaves the leafy lanes of England mirrors an awkward Coronation Street special where they argue on a bus all the way to Spain. But here I strapped myself into freeview's Horror channel 70 and let the ride roll.