5/25/2023 0 Comments The rats james herbert reviewHarris takes the lad to hospital, to get the wound looked at, but he thinks his pupil has been mistaken: a rat the size of a cat? No. The first time that Harris hears anything about the rats is when one of his pupils walks into the classroom, rather late and sporting a rat-bite on his hand. Everyone knows that, and so when people hear the first stories of the attacks they don’t’ believe it-it’s fear, an exaggeration, a mistake-but as the attacks increase becomes obvious to even the most sceptical that the City of London has a real problem on its hands. Rats don’t attack people and they don’t grow to the size of a small dog. One little dog against so many rats didn’t stand a chance and they took the girl over his dead body. When they came for one-year-old Karen Blakely, the family pet, a mongrel dog named Shane, laid down his life to save her. They ate their fill and then went looking for more. The rat’s first victim was one of London’s many homeless. It was an instant hit and the success of this and many subsequent books made Herbert one of the UK’s top horror writers. The Rats was James Herbert’s first novel.
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