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Paranaturalist Julian Trask battles a modern-day witch in this tale of sex, voodoo and world domination.

Haunted Castles is the definitve, 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, perverted, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful.

Table of Contents:

• Sardonicus - (1961) - novelette
• Sagittarius - (1962) - novella
• Sanguinarius - (1967) - novelette
• Comet Wine - (1967) - novelette
• The Runaway Lovers - (1967) - shortstory
• The Vendetta - (1969) - shortstory (variant of The Man Who Spoke in Rhyme)
• The Cage - (1959) - shortstory

Dr. Sam Cordell, a surgeon who settles with his teenage daughter in the quiet New England community of Galen, encounters a terrifying supernatural phenomenon, the Incubus, a demon who thrives on sexual desire. With the help of the town's police chief and a news reporter, Cordell follows the deadly demon's path to a frightened young man whose nightmares may hold the answers.

Before The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan

By the twentieth century, the exorcism had all but vanished, wiped out by modern science and psychology. But Ray Russell--praised by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated practitioner of Gothic fiction--resurrected the ritual with his classic 1962 horror novel, The Case Against Satan, giving new rise to the exorcism on page, screen, and even in real life.

Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having "fits"--a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night, she strips in front of the parish priest and sinks her nails into his throat. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession. To vanquish the Devil, Bishop Crimmings recruits Father Gregory Sargent, a younger priest with a taste for modern ideas and brandy. As the two men fight not just the darkness tormenting Susan but also one another, a soul-chilling revelation lurks in the shadows--one that knows that the darkest evil goes by many names.