Edited sentence: A rat king portentously appears in a sub-section of the same name in E.Annie Proulx's fictional work Accordion Crimes.In Alan Moore's and Ian Gibson's comic book series Halo Jones, the Rat King was a weapon of war, a super-intelligent collective of five rats with entwined tails who were able to communicate via a computer terminal.In Lars von Trier's film Epidemic, the rat king is an omen for the upcoming disease.The rat king appears in novels such as China Miéville's King Rat, The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot, Ratking by Michael Dibdin, Peeps by Scott Westerfeld, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding, Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents as well as being mentioned in Jingo by Terry Pratchett