{"product_id":"9781619400399","title":"Burial of Rats: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eVarla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. \u003ci\u003eMagical Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBram Stoker, the master of horror and dark mind behind the most famous vampire novel in history—Dracula—brings us to the edge of our chairs again with a tale of a different variety. Here the horrors are not vampires, nor are they werewolves. Here the horrors are poverty and vicious, snarling rats. A young man finds himself (foolishly) wandering beyond the city walls of 1850s Paris, making his way into the dust piles and garbage gatherings of the paupers. Living among the rags and the war-torn are giant, beady eyed rats. Hideous beasts that clean a dead (or dying) human body down to its skeleton before the flesh is even cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdd to that a swampy quagmire and some curious psychic insights, and you have a masterful tale of the macabre that is not for the feint of heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176439791856,"sku":"9781619400399","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619400399_p0.jpg?v=1763854648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619400399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}