Ratas. Few animals with such a bad reputation like them. Except some Ratouille from time to time, others are not loved or interested in anything other than scientific experiments. But in literature they do give for many stories, especially horror. Also the chinese new year started yesterday Metal Rat. So there are these titles where rats are the protagonists.
The rats - Miguel Delibes
Classic of Spanish literature. The story of Nini and the Pickpocket, who live in a cave and survive hunting rats in the river of the town, serves as a tragic and very hard vision on the drama and misery, but also the greatness and beauty of the Rural castile of the time.
The incredible story of ... rat snacks - David Walliams
We go to children's literature, where from classic tales like Conceited ratita (from Perrault) or Hamelin's futist (from the Grimms), we move on to a contemporary bestseller as is Walliams. This is the story of Zoe, a girl who has like pet to rat and should protect it from a evil hamburger vendor itinerant, in an adventure with a lot of humor. From 9 years.
Let the rats invade us! - Begoña Oro
Begoña Oro Pradera is from Zaragoza and in addition to translator and consultant publisher, she is also the author of children's and youth literature and textbooks. He won Grand Angle Award in 2011 and how not to publish with the reference seal as it is The Steamboat.
In this book we meet the students of a school who dreamed of teaching in a Enchanted castle, until one day their teacher announced the visit of the deratization service. But the exterminators of the company that came launched a spell and turned the students into rodents causing a plague in the school. So will those children achieve find a solution so that they are not exterminated and become people again?
King of rats - James Clavell
Was the first novel by this Australian author (English for other sources), later known by titles like Shogun or as screenwriter (The great escape) Y Director of movies (Classroom rebellion). Clavell fought in the Second World War and with only 18 years it was done prisoner by the Japanese and sent to a cárcel from Singapore. That experience helped him to write this story that also sets in a concentration camp in Singapore.
They coexist there British, Australian, New Zealand, American and Canadian officers, and their biggest problem is the lack of food and medicine. Only the strongest survive and among them is Rey, an American corporal, skilled in all kinds of business such as, for example, baby rats.
The rat god - Richard Corben
And we got to terror, first in the form of comic, with Corben, who in this story tells us the terrible things that are hidden in forests near Arkham. To them comes an arrogant urbanite who embarks on a quest that will lead him to meet horrors that mix lovecraftian mutations with indian legends.
Graveyard rats - Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner was part of the lovecraft fan circle who corresponded with him. This Los Angeles novelist and horror and science fiction storyteller published his first story in 1936. It was this terrifying tale on fight endless of Masson, the old keeper of one of Salem's oldest cemeteries, with rats.
The burial of the rats - Bram Stoker
Finally, one of the horror stories of the XNUMXth century Irish master who wrote before Dracula. Set in the Paris underworld, count the adventure which becomes a nightmare chase a young English who delves into them and encounters several ghostly figures to whom misery has erased humanity.