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Haunted Castles
Ray Russell
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Description for Haunted Castles
Paperback. "First published in the United States of America by Maclay & Associates, Inc. 1985; Edition with a series introduction by Guillermo del Toro pubished in Penguin Books 2013"--Title page verso. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of Sardonicus, Sanguinarius, and Sagittarius. The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy); the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. ... Read more
Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of Sardonicus, Sanguinarius, and Sagittarius. The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy); the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143129318
SKU
9780143129318
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About Ray Russell
RAY RUSSELL was born in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, and served in the United States Air Force during World War II in the South Pacific. After the war, he attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the editorial staff at Playboy, where he published such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Robert Bloch, and ... Read more
Reviews for Haunted Castles
With gripping clarity and incisive wit, Russell weaves a suspenseful plot that's more of an intellectual thriller than a horror yarn . . . The Case Against Satan retains its harrowing, relevant edge.
NPR
[A] sincere and subtle tale of ultimate evil that feels less dated than many of the works it inspired.
The Seattle Times
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NPR
[A] sincere and subtle tale of ultimate evil that feels less dated than many of the works it inspired.
The Seattle Times
... Read more