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Have you noticed, gentle listener, that a disproportionately large number of the tales we've featured thus far this year have involved subterranean antics.

Now, what's that all about? And more importantly, should we put a stop to this trend now?

Hmm. No, I don't think so.

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present

The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kootner.

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Old Mason, the caretaker of one of Salem's oldest and most neglected cemeteries had a feud with the rats. Generations ago they had come

up from the wharves and settled in the graveyard, a colony of abnormally large rats. And when

Masson had taken charge after the inexplicable disappearance of the former

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