tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post4809580019813397250..comments2024-03-06T11:11:48.095-08:00Comments on Too Much Horror Fiction: RIP: James Herbert, Horror Fiction IconWill Erricksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-18468041039922273142013-05-06T06:19:46.279-07:002013-05-06T06:19:46.279-07:00I was a big fan right from 1975, and have done a t...I was a big fan right from 1975, and have done a tribute to the author on my own website.Singlemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17047946017119697131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-15270852884409544032013-03-22T09:05:10.268-07:002013-03-22T09:05:10.268-07:00Very, very sad news. He was quite feeble in the la...Very, very sad news. He was quite feeble in the last years of his life, but still managed to produce his final book ASH.<br /><br />He was a generous man, a true gentleman, and I counted him as a penfriend from the mid-70's to the late 80's.<br /><br />I preferred his earlier works such as THE RATS, THE DARK, LAIR, THE FOG, THE SURVIVOR, THE SPEAR, and DOMAIN, but his more unconventional Phantom of Pulphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684169251989469824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-15344158057402912882013-03-21T20:00:12.688-07:002013-03-21T20:00:12.688-07:00I first read about The Fog in King's Danse Mac...I first read about The Fog in King's Danse Macabre when I was 15 back in '91. I checked it out from my local library, and didn't think it was as violent as it was hyped up to be. By this time in my life, I'd gone through a "true crime" phase, reading about Jack the Ripper and the Manson murders and such. But I loved the story. I had meant to get more of his books, but mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497441899001424699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-80226886253070821402013-03-21T05:43:34.334-07:002013-03-21T05:43:34.334-07:00May ye rest in peace, Mr. Herbert, safe from the F...May ye rest in peace, Mr. Herbert, safe from the Fog, the Rats, and everything else you've dreamed up over the years . . . and wedged so deeply into our nightmares.<br /><br />It's Creed that sticks with me most (not entirely sure why), but I think it may be time for a rat-infested reread of the classics.Bob/Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07830145891314387373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-91534623368820902752013-03-20T17:04:04.640-07:002013-03-20T17:04:04.640-07:00In his interview in Stanley Wiater's DARK DREA...In his interview in Stanley Wiater's DARK DREAMERS, Herbert states he was too busy writing full-length stories to write short ones. <br /><br />But I do think Herbert *is* a splatterpunk pioneer - just not in the way most people think, that is, that he wrote graphic violence gleefully. In THE RATS he was very conscious of, and depicted sympathetically, people who were marginalized Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-53204542118991718242013-03-20T16:57:21.431-07:002013-03-20T16:57:21.431-07:00I agree with both of your sentiments, Will and tar...I agree with both of your sentiments, Will and tarbandu (though I can't think of many horror novels at all from the past 40 years that are superior to Floating Dragon). Herbert was a true original in his time, and his excellent work continued at least through the 80's and into the 90's with works like Haunted and Magic Cottage, novels that are every bit as good and terrifying as his Jack Tripperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033020329763413508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-14549634673551593932013-03-20T15:55:26.956-07:002013-03-20T15:55:26.956-07:00Oops ! It's 'The Dark' (1980) that I&#...Oops ! It's 'The Dark' (1980) that I'm thinking of as the superior choice to Straub's 'Floating Dragon'.tarbanduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205251855147881113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-71825514530169473622013-03-20T15:52:15.266-07:002013-03-20T15:52:15.266-07:00Sad to learn of Herbert's passing.
He was one...Sad to learn of Herbert's passing.<br /><br />He was one of the very first Splatterpunks, and paved the way for that sub-genre of horror fiction. Compared to the other, more heralded practitioners of the 70s, like Thomas Tryon, Ira Levin, and Stephen King, Herbert was a live wire of grue. <br /><br />Herbert made it feasible for Clive Barker and Shaun Hutson to write, and publish, the way tarbanduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205251855147881113noreply@blogger.com