Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is 370 - The Judge’s House, Part Two
If you have not heard the previous episode, I recommend that you listen to Episode 369. That episode has an interesting introduction to the tale, as well as the beginning of the slow-burn drama and eventual of Bram Stoker’ The Judge’s House.
Tonight the rats disturbed him more than they had done on the previous night. How they scampered up and down and under and over! How they squeaked, and scratched, and gnawed! How they, getting bolder by degrees, came to the mouths of their holes and to the chinks and cracks and crannies in the wainscoting till their eyes shone like tiny lamps as the firelight rose and fell. But to him, now doubtless accustomed to them, their eyes were not wicked; only their playfulness touched him. Sometimes the boldest of them made sallies out on the floor or along the mouldings of the wainscot. Now and again as they disturbed him Malcolmson made a sound to frighten them, smiting the table with his hand or giving a fierce “Hsh, hsh,” so that they fled straightway to their holes.
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