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The Graveyard Rats

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88:, cemetery caretaker "Old Masson" must deal with a teeming colony of abnormally large rats that are cutting into his grave-robbing profits; the subterranean rodents drag away newly buried corpses from holes gnawed into the coffins. One night Masson attempts to rob a grave only to see the corpse pulled into a burrow by a rat. In an attempt to retrieve the valuables Masson crawls into the tunnels after the body. After a short time he realizes how dangerous his situation is and tries to turn back, being set upon by the rats which he fends off. As he climbs back up the tunnel Masson eventually comes face-to-face with a burrowing 447: 92:-like creature, from which he flees down a side tunnel. To escape the corpse, he collapses the tunnel behind him. He then finds himself trapped in a coffin which a rat had previously emptied. Masson asphyxiates from lack of air as the rats descend upon him. 540: 491: 72: 135: 271: 263: 535: 525: 520: 196: 349: 484: 530: 545: 550: 477: 357: 515: 319: 312: 510: 189: 326: 305: 239: 182: 416: 389: 341: 85: 62: 255: 140: 165: 110: 333: 42: 373: 365: 381: 169: 67: 47: 136:"'Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities' Gets Trailer And Premiere Date At Netflix" 461: 454: 424: 279: 247: 58: 24: 504: 217: 206: 28: 457: 222: 52: 33: 408: 174: 446: 57:(1997). "The Graveyard Rats" was adapted as part of the made-for-cable 89: 166:
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horror
Henry Kuttner
Weird Tales
The Gruesome Book
Ramsey Campbell
Weird Tales
anthology film
Trilogy of Terror II
Vincenzo Natali
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Salem, Massachusetts
zombie
"The Graveyard Rats"
"'Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities' Gets Trailer And Premiere Date At Netflix"
Deadline Hollywood
A collection of Henry Kuttner's short fiction in the public domain
Standard Ebooks
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Lewis Padgett
Henry Kuttner
C. L. Moore
Earth's Last Citadel
Vintage Season
Valley of the Flame
The Fairy Chessmen
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Dark World
The Graveyard Rats

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