![]() ‘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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