Creed (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 79)

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After having gained an insight into Creed in the first chapter, the reader meets him for the first time in chapter two. Just to make it a memorable first encounter, he is standing in the corner of a tomb and taking a leak. What a guy! He has been waiting inside the tomb for hours and it is a tomb with a view. The view that this particular tomb offers includes an open grave. The designated occupant of the grave, when she arrives, will be an actress called Lily Neverless. A bitch, on screen and off, Lilly’s has been a successful career. Creed expects to see a lot of famous faces attendant at the burial—hence his interest—and wouldn’t it be great if he could snap a few smiles on those faces when the old bird goes down for the last time? In an interview last year Herbert said: "I hate violence and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. The great thing is that you can write humour, romance or political thrillers under that genre."

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This one on the whole was slow tediius and boring and little more untill you got to chapter 39 then going through the motions!!

Like his previous workThe Rats, the concept is pretty simple, a mysterious fog drifts in and seemingly turns people insane, either murderous or/and suicidal, and their is an extremely disturbing scene at a boys school. So some people today might find some of Herbert's attitudes, or at least those of his main character, to be objectionable if read from a modern perspective. However, if the book is read as a product of its time, then one could ignore these chauvinistic attitudes and just follow the narrative, not unlike setting aside the racism and snobbery in a work by H. P. Lovecraft, for example, just to enjoy the horror. At the age of 28 he began writing his first novel, a terrifying story of London being overrun by mutant, flesh-eating rats. When The Rats was finally published in 1974, the first print run of 100,000 copies sold out in three weeks.

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The early books still retain an amazing power over me to this day, showing his skill as one of the greats of the horror fiction genre." Ah, Creed. It is a book filled with the usual Herbert charm… and yet somehow it falls short therefore preventing it from earning a spot in my top three Herbert books. for murder and the mutilation of children. Creed eventually discovers his antagonists are the Fallen Angels of Europe, whose origins can be traced to Biblical sources. Their powers are waning, the centuries andIt has to be said that the tale isn’t the most atmospheric or suspense heavy. Instead Herbert has delivered an ingeniously fast-paced and wildly exaggerated horror novel, with plenty of odd twists and turns to keep the tale roaring ahead at a mile a minute. I would still mildly recommend this book as the concept and storyline itself is interesting and there is a lot of entertainment within the book, but a lot of filler, with a lot of scientific discussions which get dragged out, I wanted to like this more than I did, but I will still give Herbert the benefit of the doubt and will look through his other books, because The Rats, and it's follow up Lair, prove his excellent talents, as for this, it was just quite good, but average in parts, mild recommendation. earth. The last violent spasms of a dying planet. Then a series of ominous events signal the emergence of new and terrifying forces. While scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef a diver watches fascinated as a

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I always have loved British humor, having grown up with the likes of Monty Python and Benny Hill, and have only recently discovered that their horror is wonderful as well. I guess it was bound to happen. James Herbert was perhaps the best known modern British horror authors, and I can see why! One of Herbert's best, but not without problems. The pacing is good and develops nicely towards a (batshit crazy) conclusion. The (male) characters are well drawn out and you get a good sense of their motivation. And the usual Herbert clichés are in place; the hero (Halloran) is a middle aged man with deep psychological scars, the female lead is essentially there to be rescued by, and have sex with, the hero and the conclusion is massively over the top. But it's good if you can read it in the context of a pulpy 1980s horror. The Fog is one of those books that would stare down at me from my fathers bookshelf when I was little. Titles like Wolfen, It's Alive, The Rats and The Fog, with covers so terrible I was scared and fascinated at the same time. Now, I'm trying to find those same books and read them myself, wondering if the stories live up to my childhood impressions. I'm not going to get into the plot, the description does that. I will say that this book stoked up my Herbert jones and I can't wait to read more of his books. Highly recommended for fans of 80's horror.

Depending on what one wants, this can be a good or a bad thing. It´s not really what one expects from the horror genre, because it doesn´t have the dark fantasy, big epic action plotline that is really interconnected, or the overkill of sadistic, violent scenes. It´s more a kind of We follow Creed as he goes to several jobs, but at one of them he witnesses quite the bizzare scene.. which will be the start of a thrilling ride through a new world .. We meet several interesting characters, once in a while even told from their point of view, but the main focus will be our "hero" .. I’m going to be honest and say this one disappointed me. It wasn’t the usual James Herbert read: instead of being a creepy story, it was more a detective story with a small amount of the paranormal thrown in. Usually I love such stories – detective stories are some of my favourites, and I never say no to the supernatural – but this one failed to hit the right spots for me.

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He's such a brilliant anti-hero. He's self-centred, smokes and drinks far too much, treats people like dirt, and he delights in his job of snapping embarrassing photos of the rich and famous. He excels at his job. Because he has no shame. He is a despicable human being and totally doesn't care. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Originally published in 1987, this novel was written in the middle of James Herbert’s career, an author who has been referred to as the British Stephen King. It features a professional bodyguard and hostage negotiator named Liam Halloran who works for a company named ‘Achilles Shield’. He is assigned to protect the most valuable asset of the Magma Corporation who turns out to be a man named Felix Kline. Why is Kline so valuable? Halloran is told the man is a psychic researcher whose paranormal abilities allow him to locate undiscovered mineral mines. Halloran is skeptical to say the least but as events unfold, he is soon convinced. There have already been several failed attempts on Kline’s life by rival companies but now, the psychic has had a premonition that he will soon be in even greater danger.Centred mainly around protagonist, Department of Environment inspector John Holman, he is seemingly the first and only so far to have survived the madness of the fog, so he becomes very valuable to the government who think he is the key. This had a fairly similar style to the Rats, in the sense of certain characters being introduced and then never being referred to again, but it wasn't as gripping as the Rats, and the characters in general were not memorable or likeable either, though Holman did gradually grow on me. Finally (to let out my OCD side a bit), typos and other errors were scarce, unlike in so many works published today. Nevertheless, you do get oddities like: 'uneaven pace' (p. 159), 'load and clear' (for ' loud and clear' [p. 207]), the admittedly common enough 'comprised of' (p. 266) and '...he pulled farther [sic] towards him until their bodies touched' (p. 190) - surely, he meant 'closer'?