![]() At night, and most particularly on nights when the moon is slim or cloud-enshrouded, it is a heavy blot upon the horizon, a shadow only, without feature save for its many-turreted outline and should the moon be temporarily released from her cloudy confinement, her fugitive rays lend scant comfort, for they but serve to throw the castle into sudden, startling chiaroscuro, its windows fleetingly assuming the appearance of sightless though all-seeing orbs, its portcullis becoming for an instant a gaping mouth, its entire form striking the physical and the mental eye as would the sight of a giant skull. Haunted CastlesHaunted Castlesis the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russells masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, this vast edifice of stone exudes an austerity, cold and repellent, a hint of ancient mysteries long buried, an effluvium of medieval dankness and decay. It presents a somewhat forbidding aspect to the world, for there is little about it to suggest gaiety or warmth or any of those qualities that might assure a wayfarer of welcome. ![]() “The castle is situated at the terminus of a long and upward-winding mountain road. Horror legend Ray Russells 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. ![]()
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