It follows that there is a skill in making a reader cry but first and foremost, I don't really enjoy deeply depressing stories, or stories that are going to upset me for days and days afterwards. Secondly, it's rare for me to cry during a movie, so for a book, this state is almost unattainable. Besides, I'd rather be scared out of my wits, or contemplating the dark side of human nature in a way that is removed from my daily life and therefore 'safe'. I felt uncomfortable with the underlying karma underpinnings to the story for although I get his point and it was not so crudely drawn as I shall now state- It was on the premise that: a man was reborn bearing the ugly nature of his personality on the outside in a second life. And so unfortunate handicaps may be construed as punishment from a previous life, something I find hard to swallow and, yes, discriminative. In his “agitated and vulnerable state”, Cerfontyne said, Herbert must have been terrified when he was detained. a b Plint, Alec (21 March 2013). "20 things you didn't know about James Herbert". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 21 March 2013.

Spark, Alasdair (1993). "Horrible Writing: the Early Fiction of James Herbert". In Bloom, Clive (ed.). Creepers: British Horror & Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. London: Pluto Press. pp.147–160. ISBN 9780745306650. When he remained motionless an ambulance was called. He was declared dead at Yeovil hospital at 9.20pm.Others came into its own for me after my husband became severely disabled. Reading it again I enjoyed even more having a hero who isn’t able bodied and a heroine who has a disability of her own to struggle with. The writer conveyed a real sympathy and an understanding of what it feels like to be (or be with) someone that people stare at in the street – although thankfully in that regard the world is changing for the better. James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction. Williamson, J.N., ed. (1987). Masques II: All-New Stories of Horror and the Supernatural. Baltimore: Maclay & Assoc. ISBN 978-0-940776-24-1. With his next novel, Lair (1979), Herbert regaled readers with the return of the rats, and he completed the trilogy with Domain (1984), set in a future where rats are now dominant following a nuclear war that has devastated civilisation. Herbert's The City (1994), a graphic novel illustrated by Ian Miller, was set in the same post-apocalypse world in which only a handful of people have survived. Both Stoodley and a second officer who was in the van, PC Paul Lomas, later claimed that James was aggressive as he was driven to Yeovil.

A naked woman with an overblown belly popped up with a pillow; A man with a body whose twisted legs hung just below its knees; AAssistant Chief Constable Nikki Watson said: “Our thoughts are very much with the family of James Herbert who’ve had to wait almost seven years for a conclusion to these proceedings. Louise told him that these voices are telling him something and he had to listen to them. The clairvoyant also told him, that sometimes things we see in our dreams and voices we hear make no sense at all, only later we will realise that they were there to represent something important to us. Potter, Adam Lee (5 September 2012). "James Herbert: My new thriller about Princess Diana's secret son". Daily Express . Retrieved 1 September 2017. James Herbert’s parents, Barbara Montgomery and Tony Herbert, in Portishead. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

They were not expecting or prepared for the arrival of a seriously ill young man, and they did not treat him as such. James was carried face down on a blanket to a police cell, where he was left naked on a bare cement floor,” she said.Not a bad Herby this one, and I didn't mind the ambitious world spanning locations, either. I like to think a JH book that leaves the leafy lanes of England mirrors an awkward Coronation Street special where they argue on a bus all the way to Spain. But here I strapped myself into freeview's Horror channel 70 and let the ride roll.