![]() ![]() Herbert dabbled in supernatural phenomena with novels such as The Survivor and Haunted. ![]() His dystopian vision also lead to novels such as ’48, an alternate history in which the Nazis have taken over the U.K. He wrote three sequels to The Rats – Lair, The City and Domain – all sci-fi efforts in which he imagined a future in which mutant rats overrun humans. It was an immediate hit selling 100,000 copies in two weeks. The Rats, published in 1974, depicted a London overrun by mutant flesh-eating rodents. His publisher, Pan Macmillan, confirmed that he died at his home in Sussex, southern England, on Wednesday, but did not give a cause of death. James Herbert, a British sci-fi and horror writer who sold 54 million books in his lifetime beginning with The Rats, has died. ![]()
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