![]() ![]() It came a couple of years after George Romero's similarly-themed movie The Crazies, and a couple of years ahead of The Dawn of the Dead.īefore becoming a full-time writer, Herbert was the art director of an advertising agency, and he designed his own book jackets well into his career. His first non-sequel follow-up to The Rats was 1975's The Fog, in which a chemical spillage generated a mist that turned anyone who came in contact with it into homicidal maniacs. ![]() But now for the first time – suddenly, shockingly, horribly – the balance of power had shifted." For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. As the cover blurb put it: "It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. The Rats mined a primal human fear of scurrying vermin that suddenly decide they've had enough of living in the sewers. There can be few authors working in the field of modern dystopian fiction who don't owe a debt to his work. With The Rats, Herbert established himself as a master of the sort of apocalyptic horror that's so popular today – from Justin Cronin's The Passage to any number of zombie novels. ![]()
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