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Book at Bedtime: Fright Night Shorts: The Rat King by John Connolly

The Rat King by John Connolly

28/10/2016

Fright Night Shorts

Fright Night

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Fright Night Shorts, The Rat King by John Connolly

A macabre retelling of the Pied Piper story by John Connolly. Read by Peter Marinker.

A macabre retelling of the Pied Piper story by John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things, Nocturnes and the bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries. Read by Peter Marinker.

The last in our series of stories of the supernatural by Stephen King, Kate Mosse and John Connolly.

A macabre retelling of the Pied Piper story by John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things, Nocturnes and the bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries. 

The Rat King is a new story included in the 10th anniversary edition of The Book of Lost Things, published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2016. 

Produced by Mair Bosworth
Read by Peter Marinker
Music by Timothy X Atack.

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