![]() ![]() ![]() The baby and dog are killed in the attack however the distraught mother suffers only a number of bites and is taken in to hospital. ![]() Concerned for the well-being of the pupil, Harris is informed that the wound was inflicted by a savage rat.Įlsewhere in London a mother ’s baby daughter and their dog are attacked by a horde of giant rats. It was during a normal day in the East London secondary school that the art teacher, Mr Harris, noticed that one of his students had a wounded and bandaged hand. Up the title, and so Herbert’s career in horror writing was ![]() Herbert later admitted that the story was merely written as a hobby, until the manuscript was typed-up by his wife, Eileen Herbert, and ‘The Rats’ also set in motion what would soon become a bombardment of similarly themed pulp horror novels, comprising of a whole host of different animals and creatures on the rampage. The novel would later be dubbed the founding title that created the subgenre appropriately titled ‘splatterpunk’, whilst crowning Herbert the godfather of the subgenre and propelling him to instant fame. First published back in January of 1974, James Herbert’s debut novel ‘The Rats’ created quite an impact in the world of horror literature with its ground-breaking no-holds-barred approach to graphic scenes of explicit gore and over-the-top violence. ![]()
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