![]() ![]() ![]() The Fog is a novel driven by violence and destruction, but there’s complicated relationships too. Harry Adam Knight’s The Fungus has a remarkably similar story, but being 100 pages shorter, it’s a more concise, enjoyable book. The main problem is that it’s far too long. I haven’t read Herbert’s The Rats yet, but I have a pretty song suspicion that this book combined with that one provided the blueprints for all of the horror fiction published by the aforementioned authors. Every book by Harry Adam Knight, Simon Ian Childers and John Halkin I have read draws clear influence from this. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a particularly clever idea for a horror novel, but while reading it I was surprised at how clearly influential this book must have been within the horror genre. As it spreads it becomes more powerful, and it goes from driving a few isolated individuals to acts of sadistic violence to bringing the city of London to an apocalyptic hellscape. A poison cloud erupts from under the ground and causes the people who inhale it to go crazy. ![]()
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