Project Gutenberg 2010-06-19 Public domain in the USA. 78 O'Brien, David Wright 1918 1944 Cabot, John York Rats in the Belfry Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Rats in the Belfry" by John York Cabot is a speculative fiction story written in the early 1940s. The narrative follows an eccentric suburbanite named George B. Stoddard, who designs an architecturally bizarre home filled with oddities and quirks. The plot revolves around the house’s strange occurrences, particularly the sensation of hearing rats, leading to a bizarre discovery that intertwines the ordinary with the extraordinary. The story follows Stoddard and an exasperated contractor, Mr. Kermit, as they navigate the challenges of building the Stoddard's dream home. As the couple moves in, they are troubled by strange noises that they initially believe to be rats. However, their investigation leads them to uncover a portal in the belfry that connects them to a past moment in history, specifically involving Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering. Presented with this unique opportunity, Stoddard proposes a radical plan to take action against these historical figures, leading to an unexpected climax that intertwines themes of time travel, ambition, and the quirkiness of human nature in the pursuit of their dreams. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32900/32900-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction House construction -- Fiction PS Text World War II Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 65745 65754 2024-09-14T04:57:36.445057 2023-09-14T09:49:34.261628 text/html text/html 62476 2021-01-06T18:40:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 167690 2021-01-06T18:40:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 179897 2024-09-14T04:57:38.683032 application/epub+zip 178933 2024-09-14T04:57:37.016059 application/epub+zip 92218 2024-09-14T04:57:36.742089 application/epub+zip 218944 2024-09-14T04:57:40.098039 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 211577 2024-09-14T04:57:38.420030 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 125173 2022-09-15T06:48:10.879162 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 57023 56927 2024-09-14T04:57:36.140043 2023-09-14T09:49:33.994625 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 56897 2021-01-06T18:40:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21730 2021-01-06T18:40:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19201 2024-09-14T04:57:40.239007 application/rdf+xml 31753 2024-09-14T04:57:36.812063 image/jpeg 5208 2024-09-14T04:57:36.776053 image/jpeg 168868 2024-09-14T04:57:36.458059 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog