A fun and effective little story about a man who wants to get away to revise and finds himself in the house of an infamous hanging judge. There are stories about bogeymen in the house but he’s studying maths, he’s not a man for the supernatural. As the lady hired to clean for him says;
“Bogies is rats, and rats is bogies!”

True enough, the house is full of rats but he likes them except for the large one with the knowing eyes that sits on his chair, even the other rats go quiet when he’s around….

Like all good horror, it’s a little silly and could topple into it at any moment but manages to walk the tightrope of tension. Rarely for a horror short story, I’d like a little more information, build up the legend behind the house, something like that but the story has a better punch for being short.
I'll remember it and any rate.