H. P. Lovecraft

The Rats in the Walls (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. (Goodreads)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783962721688
• Artikelnr.: 50500495

Autorenporträt

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (20 August 1890 - 15 March 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft was relatively unknown during his lifetime. While his stories appeared in prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales not many people knew his name. Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor. He was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Rats in the Walls," At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time.