I've listened to this before, in a book of short stories. Weighing in at ~ 45 minutes, it has enough heft to develop its characters and themes. A young man decides to get away from it all and go to a distant village, taking a deserted house with a bad reputation. While he is working at night, he hears rats scurrying in the house walls. They and him get used to each other, but there's this one big rat that is different. According to the local lady who comes in to do for him, it is the devil, and so we can look at that as the cause of what happens next. What the student sees, or thinks he sees does nothing to dispel the house's bad reputation. It's inventive, but I;d not want to read it at night... ( )

La Casa del Juez es uno de los relatos de fantasmas más impresionantes del período victoriano y uno de los menos conocidos dentro de la obra de Bram Stoker. Tal vez opacados por su obra cumbre, Drácula, el resto de los relatos de este autor quedaron destinados a lecturas menos masivas. Sin embargo, La Casa del Juez, como otras varias, es una historia escalofriante y un logradísimo exponente del género.

Devil Rat, how can you not love that. I got the creepy's from it without a doubt ( )