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The Burial of the Rats

by Bram Stoker · first published 1910

"The Burial of the Rats" is a horror short story by the Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published in two issues of the London-based Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper on 26 January 1896 and 2 February 1896. It was first published in the U.S. in the 26 January 1896 and 2 February 1896 issues of The Boston Herald. The story was divided into a Chapter I and a Chapter II. The story is about an English traveler in Paris who wanders into a slum inhabited by violent "rat-people" and scavengers, chiffoniers, rag-pickers. It becomes a struggle of survival as the protagonist seeks to escape from the murderous throngs of outcasts and derelicts.

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