![]() ![]() His distinctive voice adds to the tale all the more… Or alternatively listen to it being read by the wonderfully dulcet tones of David McCallum, him of Saphire and Steel, the Man from Uncle, and many more TV shows and movies. So here is a link to the story itself, go read it… Heres the thing, despite these blog posts been a generally lighthearted look at Lovecraft, and occasionally stumbling blindly in to literary criticism, I don’t really want to tell you all about ‘ The Rats In The Wall‘, because of all the Lovecraft stories, this is the one I most want people to read. It is the quintessential horror story, it is as good as it gets for insidious, nasty narratives about the worst of humanities failings and the thoughts of a disturbed mind. ![]() If you want to know how to get under their skin, to make them feel the itch they can not scratch, study this tale. If you want to send chills down the spines or your readers. If, as a writer, you want to write horror. So let me get this out of the way first, no matter what else I say, I love ‘ The Rats In The Walls‘, it is a masterpiece of the grotesque, the disturbing and the chilling. So with that in mind, I can not claim to be entirely unbias on this one… ![]() It remains the tale I am most likely to recommend as a starting point to anyone who has never read the old tentacle huggers macabre scribblings. I always have, and will always, looked upon it fondly, for all its flaws. The first Lovecraft story I ever read was ‘ The Rats In The Walls’. ![]()
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