#wild how all the discworld books that are aimed more to kids are the scariest and nastiest

[leona-florianova]

Ok damn, if it wasnt for all the  way too gory bits n futuristic elements, id say that Love+Death+Robots s3 episode Mason’s Rats, was more akin to what I imagined The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents could look like.. Its properly haggard with nicely twisted stylisation.. and the rats look GREAT.  A look that would fit more to a story like Maurice.. a story that is inherently twisted and fragged up in its core. With The Rat King and human cruelty and everything.. 

*interesting thing to note, is that Neal Asher published Mason's Rats in 1999 while Pratchett published Maurice in 2001. While it continues the classical trope of smart animals vs humans, I feel like its one of the examples where Pratchett borrowed a specific story and then he just examined it,  dismantled it, and let it loose to expand in the lands of Discworld. 

**I like how late 90s and early 2000s were sort of fertile with stories about intelligent rodents.. next example Mousehunt movie (1997)