Meanwhile, at the offices of Ratkill, Lucas Pender arrives for work. When the exhausted steed comes to a halt, the warden sees a white deer. In another part of the forest, one of the wardens suddenly finds that his horse bolts in terror at some unseen creature. Meanwhile, a family is taking a short holiday nearby and one of their children spots what looks like a stray dog in the bushes – but it flees before she can take a close look.
Four years later, a farmer in Epping Forest notices that his pet cats have been attacked by something. The novel begins with a brief description of several giant mutant rats surviving the events of the previous book thanks to someone not following the government’s advice. This is the 1990 New English Library (UK) paperback edition of “Lair” that I read. Needless to say, this review may contain some SPOILERS. Not only are there recaps for some of the events of “The Rats”, but I imagine that some plot events will actually be scarier if you don’t already know what sort of thing to expect. So, I was curious about what I’d think of it these days.Īlthough “Lair” is the second novel in a trilogy, it still works as a self-contained story.
This is mostly because although I really enjoyed re-reading Herbert’s “ The Rats” a couple of months ago and I am still too scared to re-read the final novel in the trilogy, “Domain” ( I read that novel about seventeen years ago and I… still… remember it vividly), I didn’t remember that much about the second novel “Lair” other than my younger self didn’t really find it as impressive as “The Rats”. And, although I’d started searching through my older books for a copy of James Herbert’s “Sepulchre” that I vaguely remembered seeing during a previous search, I instead chanced across my copy of Herbert’s 1979 novel “Lair” and decided to re-read it. Well, I was in the mood for an old horror novel.
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