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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.
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.
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.
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Attorney General Letitia James exits the courtroom during the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump and his children at New York State Supreme Court on Nov. 3, 2023, in New York City.
CHICAGO — The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hit man Frank “The German” Schweihs and once ...