The secret of crickley hall book review6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His 23 novels between The Rats in 1974 and Ash in 2012, the year before he died at the age of 69 (there were also a handful of short stories, a couple of collections of non-fiction pieces and a graphic novel) have sold over 54 million copies around the world. His best novels, The Rats and The Fog, had the effect of Mike Tyson in his championship days: no finesse, all crude power”), he was a hugely popular writer of no-nonsense horror whose outlandish plots and plentiful sex and violence which struck a chord with audiences at home and abroad. While no-one could ever make a serious claim for British novelist James Herbert to have been a great literary stylist (Stephen King said of him “Herbert was by no means literary, but his work had a raw urgency. ![]()
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