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An empty English brick street descends toward a lake beneath wooded hills and an old institution.
Places

Brichester

Brichester is the principal fictional town in Ramsey Campbell’s Severn Valley geography. Its streets, institutions and surrounding settlements connect early Mythos fiction with later stories shaped by Campbell’s experience of English urban life.

2 min read · 334 words

An ancient stone priory and later manor additions rise above a limestone cliff at dusk, with dark openings beneath the terraces.
Places

Exham Priory

Exham Priory is the English ancestral estate restored by the narrator of The Rats in the Walls. Its layered foundations conceal a vast complex in which successive occupants maintained a cannibal institution, making the building an architectural record of a history its modern owner does not understand.

4 min read · 781 words

Investigators descend through the buried layers beneath Exham Priory.
Literature

The Rats in the Walls

The Rats in the Walls follows an American descendant of the de la Poer family who restores an English ancestral house and discovers the terrible institution preserved beneath its foundations. Written in August–September 1923 and published in March 1924, it moves from architectural recovery and family research to an archaeological revelation that the narrator cannot keep separate from himself.

8 min read · 1,520 words