Synopsis: Salem, Massachusetts: Cemetery caretaker "Old Masson" must deal with a teeming colony of abnormally large rats that are cutting into his graverobbing profits; the subterranean rodents drag away newly buried corpses from holes gnawed into the coffins.
This often-anthologized tale made recent appearances in The Gruesome Book (1983, Piccolo/Pan Books), edited by Ramsey Campbell; and Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror (1997, Barnes & Noble Books).