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Informationen zum Autor James Herbert was not just Britain’s number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since publication of his first novel, but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese. In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was also awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature. His final novel was Ash . James Herbert died in March 2013. Klappentext In James Herbert's The Fog! the peaceful life of a village in Wiltshire is suddenly shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation! leaving behind it a trail of misery and horror. A yawning! bottomless crack spreads through the earth! out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is! it must be controlled; for wherever it goes it leaves behind a trail of disaster as hideous as the tragedy that marked its entry into the world. The fog! quite simply! drives people insane. In The Fog , James Herbert portrays the decay of human sanity, and how a sane individual survives the madness. Zusammenfassung In James Herbert's The Fog, the peaceful life of a village in Wiltshire is suddenly shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind it a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is, it must be controlled; for wherever it goes it leaves behind a trail of disaster as hideous as the tragedy that marked its entry into the world. The fog, quite simply, drives people insane.