Rats: Night of Terror

by Brad Carter, Rossella Drudi (Writer), Claudio Fragasso (Writer)

Nobody knows exactly how many generations have passed since the catastrophic Event, leaving most of North America a wasteland roamed by the deformed, the doomed and the damned. But far beneath the poisoned terrain, an inhuman species of subterranean colonists has a plan to repopulate the planet. Their oily black fur glistens in the darkness. Their telepathic communication argues the details. Their long thick tails and razor-sharp incisors twitch with anticipation. And for a roughneck salvage team who has accepted a warlord's lucrative offer to raid an abandoned city, what appeared to be an easy score is now a gore-spattered battle for survival that may breed the ultimate horror.



From Brad Carter - whose killer shark, horny Bigfoot, butchered hooker and zombie apocalypse novelizations include CRUEL JAWS, NIGHT OF THE DEMON, MARDI GRAS MASSACRE and HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD -comes this viscera-sprayed saga inspired by an original screenplay by Claudio Fragasso, Rossella Drudi and Bruno Mattei that became the basis for Mattei's notorious trash classic NIGHT OF TERROR.

Genres: Horror

476 pages, Paperback

Published March 4, 2025

Reviews

[Eliza Clara Hemming · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sexy, violent, gory and surprisingly thought-provoking! Brad Carter has written a sci-fi/horror epic and I loved every page! Fantastic stuff!

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favourite by far of the Brad Carter novelizations I've read. A big part of that is the fact that 1. The Sleaze fits in WAY better with a post apocalypse and 2. The actual film is only novelized in that latter half of the book, with the majority of the runtime setting up a genuinely compelling post apocalyptic world.

Found myself pretty invested in Rat people politics which was a nice surprise. The animal attack stuff, when it happens is BRUTAAAAAAAAAAAAL.

Not for the unsleazed, but if it doesn't bother you this is a good time.

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got to salute the extent of the worldbuilding, which meant that the actual movie-adjacent elements began approximately halfway through the book.