“The books are full of that neurosis and I guess people tune into that. I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.” James Herbert married, in 19 ...

The best-selling horror author James Herbert ... more than 54million books and was translated into 34 languages. A spokesman for his publisher Pan Macmillan said Mr Herbert died peacefully ...

James Herbert has been speaking about his new book, which sees the return of parapsychologist David Ash. The bestselling author described Ash as a story about a "cynical ghost hunter" who ...

James Herbert felt the horror genre was underrated in Britain: 'they take it seriously in America,' he said (Rex Features) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent ...

The award was set up to celebrate the life and work of horror writer James Herbert who died in March 2013. Herbert's daughter Kerry, who was one of the judges, described the winning book as the ...

1. Herbert was afraid of the dark as a child, but his only fear in later life was of spiders. 2. He named his youngest daughter Casey, after his comic-book hero "Casey Ruggles", an 1850s ...

Tributes have been paid to British horror writer James Herbert, who died on Wednesday aged 69. The author of The Rats and The Fog, wrote 23 books which sold more than 54 million copies worldwide.

Fans of pulpy British horror novels were dismayed to learn that James Herbert, author of books including “The Rats,” “Magic Cottage” and “Haunted,” had died at his home Wednesday.

James Herbert, who has died aged 69, was a horror writer most famous for The Rats, the garish, ghoulish thriller about man-eating vermin. In the 1970s and 80s, dog-eared copies of the book would ...

The award was set up to celebrate the life and work of horror writer James Herbert who died in March 2013. Herbert's daughter Kerry, who was one of the judges, described the winning book as the ...