James Herbert Libros

Nada había alterado jamás la tranquila calma centenaria de Sleath, un pueblecito perdido en el corazón de Inglaterra. Nada hasta que comenzaron a sucederse fenómenos extraños y sus casas se poblaron de horripilantes espectros. David Ash, escéptico investigador de fenómenos paranormales, será el encargado de llevar a cabo la investigación de los acontecimientos, cada vez más frecuentes, que atemorizan a los vecinos. Pero el descubrimiento de algunos de los secretos que están causando la oleada de terror en el pueblo lleva a David, torturado por su propio pasado, al borde de la locura. Con un admirable dominio del suspense, James Herbert nos prepara a lo largo de toda la novela para el apocalíptico final, digno de una de las más impactantes historias de fantasmas jamás narrada.

David Ash, un investigador parapsicológico, es invitado a Edbrook, una remota casa de campo en donde está teniendo lugar un presunto hechizo. Ash se encuentra allí con la familia Mariell: dos hermanos, Robert y Simon, su joven hermana Christina y su tía Nanny Tess. Ash goza de reputación por rechazar toda clase de fenómenos sobrenaturales dudosos, habiendo descubierto muchos mediums falsos en el pasado y encontrado invariablemente las causas de los denominados fenómenos psiquicos. El posee profundas razones psicológicas para cuestionar tales hechos inexplicables. Pero en Edbrook hay un misterio que no puede ser explicado fácilmente. En tres alucinantes noches de terror, David Ash se ve forzado no sólo a poner en tela de juicio sus convicciones, sino también a enfrentarse con el enigma de su propio pasado. En Edbrook suceden cosas de una naturaleza maligna y mortal, y sólo al pasar por unas experiencias de pesadilla se podrá descubrir el espantoso secreto de este lugar.

We thought we'd found our haven, a cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Charming, maybe a little run down, but so peaceful. That was the first part of the Magic. Midge's painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the Magic. Our love for each other -- well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage had an alternative side. The Bad Magic. "What happened to us there was horrendous beyond belief. The healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats -- oh God, the bats! Even now those terrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened..." 'Beautifully orchestrated crescendo of suspense...Herbert had brought the shivers back to the genre.' Washington Post

"There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay. The house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding. It's rumoured to be haunted. It's thought to hold a secret." "Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon, seeking peace and perhaps to come to terms with what's happened to them as a family. But all is not well with the house. They hear unaccountable noises. A cellar door they shut every night is always open again in the morning. They see things that cannot be real." "The house is the last place the Caleighs should have come to, for the terror that unfolds is beyond belief. Soon they will discover the secret horror of Crickley Hall."--BOOK JACKET.

Private eye Nicholas Dismas is hired to find a baby taken at birth. His investigation leads him to a home for the elderly. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. In an astonishing and spectacular finale, he will resolve the enigma of his own existence.

The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to The Lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh.

He was a stringy mongrel wandering the streets, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness, the dog they called Fluke knew that he was once a man.

This horror story brings one of humanity's most potent fears to terrifying life, as the after effects of an atomic blast produce a race of super-rats who subjugate the common species and then turn on man.

First published in 1976, a tale of horror and suspense about the only survivor of an air crash. From the author of THE FOG.

Originally published: Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1983.