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House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs. Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart , a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party , and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
"The Rats in the Walls" is loosely connected to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories; toward the end, the narrator notes that the rats seem "determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players."
Two days after arriving in New York for college, Cal loses his virginity to a girl who picks him up. From that encounter Cal picks up an STD, but it is an unusual one since it turns its victims into "peeps"—parasite positives—raving cannibalistic monsters with unusual strength, night vision, heightened senses, and an affinity with rats.
The house is said to be "a bad house" with a history of sad events, disappearances, and mysterious noises which Charles attributes to "rats in the walls". Calvin finds a hidden compartment in the library containing an old map of a deserted village called Jerusalem's Lot, a mysterious area the townsfolk avoid. Their curiosity piqued, Charles and ...
The "human cattle" are supposed to be regressed people, not protohumans. That's why Lovecraft explicitly says they're "in every case definitely human." It's implied the bones in one of the prehistoric tumuli are pre-human, but there are less developed skeletons at the top of the stairs than at the bottom, so that doesn't pan out very well.
Incessant and nerve-shattering, the cacophony of the sounds of war — shelling, air-raid alarms, explosions — has seemingly muffled the voices of those under Russian attack in Ukraine. Yet, as ...
Watson is assisted in his endeavor by fellow Sherlock associate Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster), a walking cockney stereotype, and a group of hand-picked medical geniuses.
In 2013, House of Cards became the first original online-only web television series to receive major nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. [1] The first episode, "Chapter 1", received four nominations becoming the first webisode (online-only episode) of a television series to receive a major Primetime Emmy Award nomination.