Rats in the Walls, The

Name: Rats in the Walls, The
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9781690589617

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Lewis Arlt

Unabridged: 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 01/27/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes. This jarring story from a renowned writer of horror fiction utilizes fear-inducing themes to entice its audience.

About H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

I may like this story more than it deserves, but I can’t help it. I first encountered it in 1963, during my proto-Gothic phase, when I was fourteen; I read it at 2 AM, at the dining room table, by the light of two five-branch candelabra. And it scared the hell right out of me. This story—the account......more

Goodreads review by BookHunter M ُH َM َD

انتهت الحرب العالمية الأولى بكل بشاعتها و عبثيتها و عاد ابنه مصابا إصابة خطيرة ثم لم يلبث أن مات متأثرا بلإصابته بعد عامين. و قبلها مات الجد في حريق مروع أودى بحياته و بالبيت و بسر العائلة المحفوظ في مظروف تتوارثه الأجيال. يلجأ إلى ملاذ أخير للراحة النفسية في بيتهم القديم بإنجلترا التي هاجرت منها عا......more

Goodreads review by Leonard

This short story, one of the first dark jewels of Lovecraft's corpus, is a horror genre elaboration on the famous Pied Piper of Hamelin medieval legend. It has the mouldy smell of twilight, of gothic nightmare and rotten ruins, distinctive of its author. The narrator of The Rats in the Walls, as usu......more