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Campbell also defended Herbert's use of violence and indigence as both integral to The Rats' plot, and a break from the clichés of the horror fiction of that time period. [ 2 ] The underlying theme of the novel is the lack of care by the government toward the underclass and a lack of reaction to a tragedy until it is already too late.
James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) [1] was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 languages, including Chinese and Russian.
The Rats, a horror novel by James Herbert The Rats, a text adventure survival game based on the novel; Deadly Eyes, a Canadian film adaptation (released as The Rats in the United Kingdom) The Rats, the fictional backing group of Curt Wild in Velvet Goldmine; The Rats, the 2009 revival of the Boomtown Rats
Herbert's Rats trilogy was based in part on his own experiences in growing up among the Blitz-damaged areas of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, east London, which were a haven for rats, and as a young adult he saw Todd Browning's 1931 Dracula, where the rat-infestation scene made a great impact on him; [1] [note 1] he was later to claim that he conceived the idea after watching it.
The Rats is a survival horror text adventure for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. It is based on the 1974 novel The Rats by James Herbert.The game was programmed by GXT (Five Ways Software), [1] and published by Hodder & Stoughton, who were the publishers of James Herbert's book The Rats. [2]
Deadly Eyes (also known as The Rats, Rats and Night Eyes) is a 1982 Canadian horror film directed by Robert Clouse, very loosely based on the 1974 horror novel The Rats by James Herbert. The story revolves around giant black rats who begin eating the residents of Toronto after ingesting contaminated grain.
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The Rats (working title: The Colony [citation needed]) is a 2002 American made-for-TV horror film written by Frank Deasy and directed by John Lafia, loosely based on the novel of the same name by James Herbert.