Cast a Cold Eye by Alan Ryan (1984): Blood Will Fo.Psycho by Robert Bloch: Warner Books 1982 edition. RIP: James Herbert, Horror Fiction Icon.Now an inherent part of the post-apocalyptic pop-culture landscape, such as in video games like 'Fallout'. 'The Spear' (1978) was a good novel, superior to Straub's 'Floating Dragon', with which it shared some thematic similarities.Īnd of course the volumes in the 'Lair' (1979) series.no one can beat post-nuclear Mutant Rats ! I, too, remember reading 'The Fog' back in 1975,as a 14 year-old HS student, and its vivid imagery stays with me till this day.the 'Garden Shears' incident.the super-cool British NBC reconnaissance vehicle (was it the 'Badger' ?) John Holman drives into the Fog.and the revelation of the cause of the Fog, which avoided contrived 'supernatural' explanations in favor of something more plausible. He paid a price for being a Splatterpunk pioneer in terms of never being invited to contribute to 70s and 80s horror anthologies, even as a steady stream of crud from Ramsey Campbell got star billing. Herbert made it feasible for Clive Barker and Shaun Hutson to write, and publish, the way they did in the 80s. 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. He was one of the very first Splatterpunks, and paved the way for that sub-genre of horror fiction.
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