The scenes in both books set up and make the reader aware of how dangerous the animals are. The rat attack scenes are similar to the shark attack scenes in Jaws. We are shown that the rats are evil and not your ordinary run of the mill rats through a series of short scenes throughout the book separate from the main story-line.
Both novels use animals as the antagonists but they also present the animals in similar ways. This book, published in 1974, reminds me a lot of Peter Benchley’s Jaws, which also came out in ‘74. This was my first James Herbert book and while I’m not jumping up and down to pick up another one, I will certainly read another of his books if given the opportunity. As usual, I tried to got into the book knowing very little about the actual plot and I didn’t know much beyond the fact that it was creature horror featuring (you guessed it) rats. One book that I’ve always seen and heard about but never actually took the time to read is The Rats by James Herbert. But in a effort to continue to increase my knowledge of horror literature past and present, my search for more classic horror books that I have not read presses onward. I love reading new horror because there are so many incredible authors putting out great work right now.
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