![]() ![]() ‘And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you’d see the ragged, mouldy bedclothes a-heaving and a-heaving like seas.’ ‘And a-heaving and a-heaving with what?’ he says. There is something far more ominous lying under the bed sheets. Rats is set near the Suffolk coast, where a man takes accommodation at an inn, only to find out that a very unpleasant secret hides behind the locked door of a room along the passage from his own.Īlthough rats are mentioned in the first two paragraphs of the story, the long-tailed rodents are never mentioned again. It was later included in the anthology The Collected Ghost Stories of M. ![]() The story was first published in At Random magazine (March 23, 1929). Rats is a short ghost story written by M. ![]() They have rarely been out of print, are often anthologized and have been produced as audiobooks, radio plays, television dramatizations, films and on stage presentations. ![]() It is for his ghost stories though, that James is best remembered. Montague Rhodes James (1862 – 1936) was a noted British scholar and expert on medieval manuscripts and biblical apocrypha. ![]()
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