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Published in English 1975 Media type Print ( & ) Pages 267 (first edition, paperback) (first edition, paperback) The Fog is a horror novel by English writer, published in 1975. It is about a deadly fog that drives its victims insane when they come into contact with it. Herbert's second book, it is completely unrelated to. Plot summary John Holman is a worker for the Department of the Environment investigating a base in a small rural village. An unexpected swallows his car releasing a fog that had been trapped underground for many years.
An insane Holman is pulled up from the crack, a product of the deadly fog. Soon the fog shifts and travels as though it has a mind of its own, turning those unfortunate enough to come across it into homicidal/suicidal maniacs who kill without remorse, and often worse. Respectable figures including teachers and priests engage in crimes ranging from public urination to. A pilot is also made insane and crashes the aircraft into the in London. Soon a bigger problem is discovered - the fog is multiplying in size and nothing seems to be able to stop it. Entire villages and cities are in danger and the only chance left is to use the treated and immunized John Holman to take on the fog from the inside where who knows what awaits him.
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I have always heard great things about The Fog, so when I finally found a copy of it, I knew I would be in for a treat. Luckily, I managed to avoid any spoilers, so I had no idea what to expect. I try to avoid blurbs and reviews of boks so I can experience the story with little or no expectations. This book begins with a bang and, fortunately, this sets off a series of ever louder and more violent bangs. For a book published in 1975, it was surprisingly fresh. There were a few scenes that felt dated, and of course, 40 years on, the technology is going to be antiquated, but that is all of little consequence, and I hardly noticed.
Herbert was a masterful purveyor of in your face horror, and I could see him giggling with maniacal glee while writing some of the more outrageous sequences. There are some scenes in The Fog that managed to make this somewhat jaded horror fan squirm, and that's no easy feat.
I won't outline the plot here. It is fairly straightforward, very well developed and the characters were very likeable, their motivations were not too far fetched as to make them ring false or come across as cartoonish. Best of all, it was easy to read.
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For me, anyway. I always have loved British humor, having grown up with the likes of Monty Python and Benny Hill, and have only recently discovered that their horror is wonderful as well.
I guess it was bound to happen. James Herbert was perhaps the best known modern British horror authors, and I can see why! If I had to critique anything about this book, there are a few instances where minor players are given a little too much back story, and by the time of the third instance, a pattern did emerge.
That aspect became predictable. The other would be the fight scenes. There are an abundance of them, and I did find that I automatically started skimming through some of them; punch, kick, pow! These were trivial matters, and never took me out of the story in any way, so I can't let them reflect in my rating.
This was my second James Herbert book, the first having been Moon, which was probably not the greatest place to start with this author. The Fog is bigger and badder, and the action rarely lets you come up for air. I know I will be indulging in more of the author's backlog, for sure. There are plenty of books, but sadly, since he has passed on, there will be no more new works from this fine author. I will have to pace them out, savor them and make them last.
Highly recommended! Solid five star read! This guy is sometimes called the British Stephen King; he started writing in the mid 70s, same time as King did. Like King, his books were sortof shocking at the time for their violence. Here's his second and best-known novel, and here's what it's about: Despite all the technological advances of science, it seemed survival still depended on the action of a man.
The whole thing sounds like that, like the voiceover for the trailer for a shitty movie. But wait I'm not done, I have this sex scene for you: He ran his fingers downwards through the small, tidy forest of hair until he found her other even more moist cave, silky smooth with its aroused lubricity.
I love that 'moist cave' isn't enough, he has to specify that there are multiple caves and this is the moistest. So the best thing you can say about this book is it makes Stephen King look like a master writer.
(PS don't confuse this with The Mist, which is better.) And the thing is it's so boring. The plot - crazy fog makes people into crazy murderers - sounds like it might be lurid fun, right? But it's so lame that it doesn't even make it to slumming fun. It's embarrassingly bad.
Even the 'shocking' stuff isn't really shocking or imaginative. There's some creepy gay stuff - like, you know how gay people are usually also pedophiles? Haha wait that's not at all true - and some weird hints of incest. Again, not in a fun way. Nothing about this book is any fun. It's a really bad book, guys. This was my first Herbert experience and man what a start!
I love the interludes that we get throughout the novel where we get to see the horrible things that the Fog causes people to do. The book has a lot of gore and gruesome, violent scenes especially for something published in 1975. It also has some very mean spirited kills and I loved every second of it. Devilishly good stuff. The characters were well written from the main protagonist John Holman to even the most minor characters. All of them felt 'real' and full of life. I thought it was excellently done.
The pacing is sharp and the numerous interludes serve to break up even the mere appearance of monotony. There is very little down time and Herbert makes sure to keep the reader wickedly entertained throughout. He lulls you into a false sense of security at times and then goes for the throat. The ending is a perfect example of this.
The atmosphere and tone created is so bleak, dark, and ruthless. Herbert does an excellent job at creating a story that excites, terrifies, and causes some sort of inner turmoil.
This book affected me in a multitude of ways and that's saying something. It's filled with nail biting suspense and tension. I applaud Herbert's mastery of the concept of what terrifies and what horror is truly about.
The ending is very good and I found my heart racing at the end of this novel. I can only think of very few books that have been able to do that to me. This book would make an excellent film if handled with the same care. The plot may be nothing new by today's standards but for the time I'm sure it was a pretty fresh concept and I enjoyed it immensely.
NEGATIVES: I wish the explanation and origin for the Fog was different. This is not necessarily a negative on the book but more of a personal preference.
However this still didn't affect my enjoyment of the novel in any way. Holman's numerous dangerous scenes would easily be solved if he was given a weapon to defend himself. I don't know why the best and brightest people in the country never even offered the most valuable man in the country something to preserve his life with. It doesn't get addressed until over 3/4 of the novel had already passed. Seems like a plot hole/convenience to me. An exceptional, truly terrifying horror novel that pulls no punches.