6/30/2023 0 Comments Haunted by James Herbert![]() ![]() ![]() I had a Nurgle army, which I’d painted beautifully and they won loads of battles against my friends. My Dad gave me his copy of The Rats because I was a keen Games Workshop fan. I went to Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where I didn’t really fit in because I was neither rich nor a rugby player. “I was 11 or 12 years old when I made this, in the first year of High School. With the notable exception of the proud father of Stephen James Buckley, who actually passed his copy of James Herbert’s The Ratsonto his young son! Presumably unaware that this unprecedented act of parenting would lead to Stephen, in his school pottery class, producing an extraordinary clay sculpture of a helpless man being – frankly – eaten alive by giant rodents. By James Herbert and Stephen King, and later Clive Barker and Shaun Hutson, they made up a grimly fascinating procession: a motley parade of rats and slugs, vampires and rabid dogs, killer cars and psychosis-inducing fog.Īnd, in doing so, they captured the imagination of generation of boggle-eyed adolescents who gleefully passed them around the school playground, the illicit spoils of daring retail raids, away from the glare of blissfully uncorrupted parents. ![]() ![]() Their lurid covers leered from the groaning carousel racks of bookshops and newsagents alike those quintessentially 1970s and 1980s horror novels, the size of house bricks. ![]()
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