Book Preview ALSO BY JAMES HERBERT The Rats The Fog The Survivor Fluke The Spear The Dark Lair The Jonah Shrine Domain Moon The Magic Cottage Sepulchre Haunted Creed Portent The Ghosts of Sleath ’48 Others Once Nobody True Graphic Novels The City (Illustrated by Ian Miller) Non-fiction By Horror Haunted (Edited by Stephen Jones) … Read more
Book Preview Do you believe in Magic? I mean, real Magic, capital M. Not rabbits out of hats, disappearing sequined ladies, or silver spheres that dance in the air. The real stuff, not tricks, illusions. I mean spells, enchantments – witchery, even. Damaged limbs that heal overnight, animals that trust in humans, paintings that come … Read more
Book Preview THERE WAS A STILLNESS about the meadows. Insects stole nectar… DAVID ASH UTTERED a soft groan as he shifted position. YOU LOOK AS IF you’ve had a bad night.’ Kate… IT WAS GOOD to get away from the city, even… HE CAUGHT GLIMPSES of the village through the trees as… HE STEPPED OUT … Read more
Book Preview The Fog made me a lot of enemies. Fortunately, it also made me a lot of friends. It was first published in 1975 (written in 1974) when spy stories and historical romances were the vogue. In the United States, William Peter Blatty had made his definitive mark with the movie of The Exorcist, … Read more
Book Preview It was a bright, sunny day. Not, you might have thought, the sort of day for hunting ghosts. Nor was the house the kind of house you might expect to be haunted. But then psychic phenomena pay scant attention to time, place, or weather. It was a nice road, but ordinary, with that … Read more
Book Preview Red blood out and black blood in, My Nannie says I’m a child of sin. How did I choose me my witchcraft kin? Know I as soon as dark’s dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare’s gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, … Read more
Book Preview ‘And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.’ Genesis 3:14 ‘And the Lord God said unto the serpent, … Read more
Book Preview Domain (The Rats Book 3) By James Herbert. (Fixed by NorthstaR) TIME: 12: 37 – DAY: Tuesday – MONTH: June – YEAR: The not too distant future… PLACE: LONDON PART ONE ADVENT They scurried through the darkness, shadowy creatures living in permanent night. They had learned to become still, to be the darkness, … Read more
Book Preview One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us. Meister Eckhart One must have chaos in oneself in order to … Read more
Book Preview My redemption began in Hell. It was a day like any other – except there are no days in that singular (in both senses of the words) place. No minutes, no hours, weeks, or years. No seconds either. There is no time in Hell, you see. There just is. That’s the hell of … Read more
Book Preview ONCE… A scary Tale of Faerefolkis & Evildoers, of Lovers & Erotic Passion, of Horror & Belief. Written only for Adults by James Herbert. Also by James Herbert The Rats The Fog The Survivor Fluke The Spear The Dark Lair The Jonah Shrine Domain Moon The Magic Cottage Sepulchre Haunted Creed Portent The … Read more
Book Preview NOBODY TRUE James Herbert …So that this I, that is to say the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from the body, is even easier to know than the body, and furthermore would not stop being what it is, even if the body did not exist. René Descartes … Read more
Book Preview The boy had stopped crying. He lay in his narrow bed, eyes closed, his face an alabaster mask in the moonlight. Occasionally a tremor would run the length of his body. He clutched the bedsheets, pulling them tight under his chin. A dreadful heaviness inside weighed his body down, a feeling that his … Read more
Book Preview The boy stirs in his sleep. A pale, vaporous moon lights the room. Shadows are deep. He twists his head, turning towards the window so that his face becomes a soft mask, unblemished, colourless. But the boy’s dream is troubled; beneath their lids, his eyes dart to and fro. Its sound is distant. … Read more
Book Preview The warmth from the sun beat against my eyelids, soft persuasion to open them. Noises crept into my ears then burst through to my consciousness, confusing sounds, a gabble broken by strident pitches. Cautiously, almost unwillingly, I half opened my eyes, the sleep in them sticky, a soft moist glue. Through the blur … Read more
Book Preview Das erste was man über Joseph Creed wissen sollte, ist, daß er ein erstklassiger Schwächling ist, vielleicht sogar ein großartiger Schwächling, wenn man seinen Beruf bedenkt. Das zweite ist, daß er unser Held ist. (Zufällig ist er das letztere nicht wahlweise – es ist jedenfalls nicht seine Wahl. Man kann sagen, daß die … Read more
Book Preview Pont D’Alma tunnel, Paris 31 August 1997 12.59 a.m. As her life ebbed away in the crumpled Mercedes she thought of her two sons. Who would take care of them? Who would guide them through their early years? Not their father. Oh God, not him and all he stood for. How could their … Read more
Book Preview ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Herbert’s triumphantly successful last novel, The Ghosts of Sleath, was the latest in an unbroken line of No 1 bestsellers. It resoundingly confirmed his position not just as Britain’s bestselling writer of horror fiction – a position he has held ever since publication of his first novel = but … Read more