A spiritual successor to H. P. Lovecraft's 1924 short horror story The Rats in the Walls. A young man, living on his own after a lifetime of orphanages, finally discovers his true family name - Delapore. From this infamous family tree, he finds a tangled history of intrigue, dark secrets, and unfathomable horrors in the ancient family estate of Exham Priory. A modern take on a beloved work, The Rats Beneath the Walls expands on the concepts and madness of the original story, bringing it lovingly into the Cthulhu Mythos. This novel was written for the 100 year anniversary of the original story's first publishing in Weird Tales magazine.