Best Books of the Halloween Season #5: Haunted Castles with Foreword by Guillermo del Toro
Debi Moore
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We’re back to kick off the week with yet another entry in our October “Best Books of the Halloween Season” series. Today we bring you Ray Russell’s Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories, which is available now from Penguin Classics.
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories features all of Russell’s most chilling short stories with a foreword by award-winning Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist Guillermo del Toro. The director of movies such as Pan’s Labryinth and Hellboy calls Russell “one of the most peculiar horror writers” who writes with “a fascinating combination of the liberal and the heretic.”
Synopsis:
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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