Ok, so I'm quite happy to go all fanboy about this. James Herbert has been one of my favourite authors for more years than I care to remember (or reveal, dear heart).

I first read The Rats when I was a mere strip of a lad and it's safe to say it was utterly unlike anything else I'd read. Not as safe as Stephen King and not quite as deranged as Shaun Hutson, James Herbert, for many years, dragged me screaming headlong into some pretty dark places.

And the purpose of this post? Well, at long last, Mr Herbert's back catalogue has appeared on the Kindle store. Due to various personal events, all of my tattered old paperbacks have been lost in the mists of time, but I now have a reason to buy and enjoy them all over again.

Obviously, the horror genre isn't to everyone's taste, but if you're on this page then I think it's fair to assume it's to yours. If you haven't read Mr Herbert's work before, then for God's sake, go and do it now!