Order of James Herbert Books
James Herbert (1943-2013) was an English author of horror and dark fantasy novels. He is the author of the Rats series and the David Ash series. Several of his works were adapted to film and his novel The Secret of Crickley Hall was recently made into a BBC One serial on television. He was given the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award by Stephen King. In addition to writing his novels, Herbert also designed his own book covers and publicity.
James Herbert became a published novelist in 1974 with the novel The Rats. Its first printing of 100,000 copies sold out in just three weeks. Below is a list of James Herbert’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Rats Books
The Rats / Deadly Eyes | (1974) | |
Lair | (1979) | |
Domain | (1983) |
Publication Order of Rats Graphic Novels
The City | (1994) |
Publication Order of David Ash Books
Haunted | (1988) | |
The Ghosts Of Sleath | (1994) | |
’48 | (1996) | |
Ash | (2012) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Fog | (1975) | |
The Survivor | (1976) | |
Fluke | (1977) | |
The Spear | (1978) | |
The Dark | (1980) | |
The Jonah | (1981) | |
Shrine | (1983) | |
Moon | (1985) | |
The Magic Cottage | (1986) | |
Sepulchre | (1987) | |
Creed | (1990) | |
Portent | (1992) | |
Others | (1999) | |
Once… | (2001) | |
Nobody True | (2003) | |
The Secret of Crickley Hall | (2006) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
James Herbert’s Dark Places | (1993) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Gaslight & Ghosts | (1988) | |
Now We Are Sick | (1991) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) |
Note: The Rats was also published under the alternate title of Deadly Eyes.