James Herbert’s The Rats Trilogy is a wonderfully grim exercise in creature horror, taking the familiar urban pest and turning it into something altogether more terrifying. Beginning with a mutant infestation in the streets of London, the series steadily expands its ambitions, moving from the city to the countryside before delivering a bleak vision of a world devastated by nuclear war. What I particularly enjoyed was the way Herbert keeps finding fresh ways to escalate the threat, while using the rats to expose humanity’s own failings. There’s plenty of gore and relentless action, but beneath the blood-soaked entertainment is a rather uncomfortable reminder that we can be every bit as destructive as the monsters we fear.
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