![]() ![]() The pest controller placed down poisons, but no matter how many he killed, the rats kept returning. “When he put his head into the loft, he told us it smelled like a pet shop,” Sharpe recalls. They contacted a pest controller who told them the rats had somehow accessed their cavity walls and taken up residence in their house. Suddenly, the Sharpes found themselves living the modern- day version in suburban Nottingham. Lovecraft wrote his famous horror story, The Rats in the Walls, in which the new owner of a stately home called Exham Priory is driven to madness by rats slithering between the oak-panelled partitions. ![]() ![]() The notion there were rats sharing our house was something we really didn’t like.” It is a century since H.P. “They sounded really big, like there were badgers up there,” recalls Sharpe, who has four children aged between 10 and 15. Then one night as he and his wife were lying in bed, they suddenly heard a deafening scuttling across the bedroom ceiling directly above their heads. Sharpe, a 52-year-old academic at Nottingham Trent University, ransacked the cabinets and replaced an external drainpipe which he thought might be an access point but the furtive scratching and chomping continued. For Graham Sharpe, his rat problem started with a persistent gnawing he heard one evening in his kitchen. ![]()
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