Brown Jenkin, from Dreams in the Witch House, is a rat-thing, presumably named such because he is mostly a rat, but also has a deformed, human-like head, as well as human-like hands instead of feet. Rat-Things are primarily witches' familiars and were possibly once human.
In the RPG...
Rat-Things are not overly threatening. None of their stats are particularly high, they have no armour, and only 4 hit-points. The only issue an Investigator might have with one is that they will take a Penalty Die if trying to hit one that's on the move.
It should be noted that the older Malleus Monstrorum contains an error where a Rat-Thing can transmit a sickness with its bite. I assume it's an error anyway, because the paragraph is copied wholesale from the Rat Person entry before it, and is missing entirely from the 7e Malleus Monstrorum. Speaking of that book, the only change for Rat-Things is that INT now has a smaller range (same average).
In a video game...
Besides being difficult to hit, I can't see a Rat-Thing being any scarier in a video game. I think a swarm of actual rats would be more useful as an "enemy".
In a film...
Brown Jenkin has been portrayed on the small-screen at least twice that I know of, in a Masters of Horror episode adapting Dreams in the Witch House, as well as the more recent Cabinet of Curiosities. Neither rendition was particularly convincing or scary.
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