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  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143129318
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00

Haunted Castles

The Complete Gothic Stories




A Penguin Classics black spine edition of "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written" (Stephen King) with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
 
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.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143129318
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00

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Praise for Haunted Castles

"Russell links postpulp literature and the Grand Guignol tradition with the modern sensibilities of America in the 1960s . . . [He is] a fascinating combination of the liberal and the heretic." -Guillermo del Toro

Praise for The Case Against Satan:

"A sleek, compelling tale of diabolical possession that prefigures Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"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