(born 1943 in London)
.James Herbert, that used to be a graphic designer in the field of commercials and had a good career there, should be, according to his sale records (almost 30 million books worldwide), Europe's most successfull horror-author of modern times. Besides his highlights like the Rat-Trilogy (Whose part "Domain" is one of the best horrorstories ever) he has a hard time writing something really 'new' or work with the tension in his books really well to capture the reader. Often his stories seem like a faded version of already existing ones.
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Creed
The Dark
Domain
Fluke
The Jonah
Lair
The magic Cottage
Moon
The Rats
Sepulchre
Shrine
Spear
The Survivor
Taken exemplarily:
Creed
(Heyne Verlag, Nr. 41/39 1993)
.Joseph Creed, a lady-killer and total dick, and so to speak the complete anti-hero is free photographer specialized on pictures for the yellow-press. One day he takes a photo at a funeral with a man on it that was sentenced to death and killed 50 years ago. As the Paparazzi tries to find out further things in this case he gets into a circel of violence and realizes soon that he created himself enemies with this photo, in the human and the demonical world.
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