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The rats of NIMH were inspired by the research of John B. Calhoun on mouse and rat population dynamics at the National Institute of Mental Health from the 1940s to the 1960s. [6] After O'Brien's death in 1973, his daughter Jane Leslie Conly wrote two sequels to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. [7]
The Rats was followed by three sequels, Lair (1979), Domain (1984) and The City (1993; the last one was a graphic novel). All three books were sold as a trilogy and were very well received by the public and horror fans. An Americanised film adaptation was made in 1982, titled Deadly Eyes.
At Salem, Massachusetts, cemetery caretaker "Old Masson" must deal with a teeming colony of abnormally large rats that are cutting into his grave-robbing profits; the subterranean rodents drag away newly buried corpses from holes gnawed into the coffins. One night Masson attempts to rob a grave only to see the corpse pulled into a burrow by a rat.
It was based on the vampire story from the 1897 book Dracula by Bram Stoker but features different characters. Eggers’s Nosferatu takes the female victim from the original film, Ellen Hutter ...
A mouse who loves reading and is inspired to write his own books. Santa Mouse Michael Brown: Santa Mouse: Becomes Santa's little helper on Christmas Eve. Sheila Rae Kevin Henkes: Sheila Rae, the Brave: A fearless but reckless sort who brags on about her bravery until her little sister Louise gets the better of her. Snips A. J. Macgregor
The rats trying to turn Tom Kitten into a roly-poly pudding. Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Her children being an unruly bunch, Mrs. Tabitha puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten escapes ...
In a final conversation between the Rats and the narrator, the foregoing is in jeopardy. The two can not agree whether the She-rat is just a dream of the narrator, or whether this is - along with the rest of humanity - merely a figment of the imagination of remaining on earth rat.
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-519-7. Hendrickson, R. (1983). More Cunning than Man: A Complete History of the Rat and its Role in Civilization, Kensington Books. ISBN 1-57566-393-7. Hodgson, B. (1997). The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9780898159264; Langton, J ...