Graveyard Rats

If Lovecraft and Dickens porked (not saying they didn't) this would be their goofy little offspring. Also genuine fun fact, Charles Dickens used to call his son The Noble Plorn.

Aww, the cute little fuzzies! I'm sure if he really wanted to, he could have worked out a business agreement with the little guys and their big friend. Seriously, as others have noted, the story is a lot like the previous episode, but the execution and tone are different, and that goes a long way toward making this middling fun instead of a tiring occult tale.

Plot is very similar to Lot 36 -- a desperate dude with a debt to pay and running against the clock to find resources --, but execution is of course pretty different. Period piece is spot-on, not to mention the creature design -- big rat with big teeth, skeleton screaming MINE -- and the claustrophobic climax in the underground rat maze in search of dead people's treasures. Just fun as hell.

Putting this and Lot 36 back to back was a mistake since the plots are so similar. The tongue-in-cheek tone is mildly amusing, though the ending is straight out of Creepshow.