Lair
$19.54
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
The restless rats return in James Herbert’s Lair, the second horror novel in the Rats trilogy.
The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair.
Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037406249 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1037406249 |
| Author: | James Herbert |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | The Rats Trilogy |
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Critics Review
Not for the nervous * Daily Mirror *
The Rats is splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called “the British nasty.” I loved it then, love it still – Stephen King, bestselling author of The Shining and The Mist on The Rats
Lean, mean, and nasty as punk – Grady Hendrix, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, on The Rats
A one-off; a true horror original – Peter James, author of the Roy Grace books, on The Rats
A king of British horror – Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual on The Fog
About The Author
James Herbert
James Herbert was Britain’s number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction and one of its greatest popular novelists. His twenty-three novels have sold more than 54 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature.
His final novel was Ash. James Herbert died in March 2013.
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