The Cats is a rather odd little book. It’s short by modern standards, weighing in at only one hundred and forty four pages. Originally published in 1977, it was released in 2019 by Macabre Ink’s Resurrected Horrors line.
Nick Sharman has openly said the book was not an original idea. He read James Herbert’s very famous novel, The Rats, and figured that a book about rampaging cats was the next logical step. The animal attacks sub-genre of horror was bringing in big money at that time. Sharman waited for around three years and expected to see someone else write books, but no one did.
Sharman finally dived into it himself and proved his belief correct. The Cats was a hit. Not one as epic as Herbert’s The Rats but a hit nonetheless. It strikes all the right notes despite being very cliché’ and not very well written. One of the book’s twists is at best rather lame and doesn’t really add anything to the story.
Still, The Cats is a must read for any completist fan of animal attack books, and it does have some great scenes of carnage in the streets of London.
