The Rats in the Walls The Rats in the Walls

The Rats in the Walls

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Publisher Description

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
December 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
31
Pages
PUBLISHER
Sanctus books
SELLER
Sanctus Books
SIZE
338.9
KB
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