National Rat Day – Rat Tales short story collection …

Rat Tales is Book One of a three-book collection, titled …

The Creature Tales.

Books Two & Three, scheduled for publication, early 2019.

Rat Tales  –  Book Trailer …

 

 

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Rat Tales

A Mischief of Little Horrors 

Had your rabies shots yet? The rats are loose!

Rat Tales. Twenty-four ‘rat’ themed short stories, and the first book in a three-book collection, The Creature Tales. 

Many of the stories here are traditional blood and gore filled horror, but several venture slightly into the realms of science fiction and the supernatural.

Within this collection, the reader will find every rat incarnation imaginable, from the super strong and ultra intelligent to bloodthirsty and seemingly immortal. 

While every story has been written to stand alone, several are loosely inter-connected with an ongoing reference to the future. Among the stories are:

A farmer’s imaginative though barbaric attempt to solve his rat problem backfires in the worst possible way.

A young boy’s efforts to repay the kindness of his childhood rodent friends has consequences that will change the course of history.

A vicious ghostly rat falls victim to karma

A centuries-old rat looks back on how it became the seemingly immortal creature it is ...

Some escaped convicts realise too late they’ve chosen the wrong couple to terrorise when their rodent pets see their own comfy lives threatened.

A grim fate awaits those who take shelter in an abandoned house.

A country squire finds himself on the receiving end of his sporting cruelty.

 

These are just some of the stories in this extensive collection, so brace yourselves for … A Mischief of Little Horrors.

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Amazon Reviews …

Marmalizer – A fun but also interesting collection of rat stories

24 October 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I first read a story about rats in Mary Danby’s Nightmares 2 collection as a child. One of them, ‘Heads and Tails’ was particularly gruesome, considering the target group was children. In ‘Rat Tales’ the level of gruesome is handled well, from the entertaining but thought provoking Raticide to the comic sounding but unsettling Rats on the Radio. Some of the puns work well, Ratcula for example.

Even the hardest non-rat fan (and there’s a lot of us out there) would find it difficult not to find one story here they might enjoy.

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Jan RDeliciously gruesome!

24 October 2018

        Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Deliciously gruesome bitesized morsels to infest your nightmares. There are no holds barred yet many teeth bared in the flesh-rending descriptions. Despite being repulsed, reading the tales from the rat’s point of view had me sympathising with their plight. Love them or hate them, this is a must for horror readers.

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Theresajcbs –RATS

October 22, 2018

        Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Whether you like rats or not, this anthology is a great read. The writing style keeps you wanting more. I highly recommend this book for all horror seekers.

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