Haunted Castles, Ray Russell
Haunted Castles, Ray Russell
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Haunted Castles
The Complete Gothic Stories

Author: Ray Russell, Guillermo del Toro

Narrator: Matt Godfrey

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/13/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Ray Russell

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Remember all those liars in the ‘60’s who claimed they bought Playboy for the interviews? Pulp fiction nerds like me knew they must be lying, because we knew what Playboy was really good for, namely, all those wonderful short stories: the fantasy, the science fiction, and the horror. And we nerds ow......more

Goodreads review by Orrin

I was disappointed to learn that the recent series of Penguin Horror hardcovers all had the exact same introduction by Guillermo del Toro, which not only seems like a bit of a cheat but also seems like a poor idea in encouraging people to buy the whole set. Luckily, the only one I didn't already hav......more

Goodreads review by Tim

I bought this book on a whim, never having heard of the author and certainly not realizing that I had already once before been exposed to his work. Let us step back and look at the past for a moment. As a kid (and I confess, still to this day) I used to love Halloween more than any other holiday. No......more