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.
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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 Charles Beaumont. His best-known work, 'Sardonicus', was called by Stephen King 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written'. He died in Los Angeles in 1999.
Show moreHorror 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.
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 Charles Beaumont. His best-known work, 'Sardonicus', was called by Stephen King 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written'. He died in Los Angeles in 1999.
Show moreHaunted Castles is the definitve, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of "Sardonicus,
Ray Russell (1924-1999) was a pioneer of the modern horror genre.
As an editor at Playboy, he helped publish such writers as Ray
Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and Charles Beaumont. His best known work,
"Sardonicus," was called by Stephen King "perhaps the finest
example of the modern Gothic ever written." He received the World
Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991.
Guillermo del Toro(Foreword) is a Mexican director, producer,
screenwriter, novelist, and designer. He cofounded the Guadalajara
International Film Festival and formed his own production company,
Tequila Gang. He is most widely recognized for his Academy
Award-winning film, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film
franchise. He has received Nebula and Hugo awards, was nominated
for a Bram Stoker Award, and is an avid collector and student of
arcane memorabilia and weird fiction. He is series editor of
Penguin Horror.
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*
A sleek, compelling tale of diabolical possession that prefigures
Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby
*The Washington Post*
[A] sincere and subtle tale of ultimate evil that feels less dated
than many of the works it inspired.
*The Seattle Times*
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*
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