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At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, Gilles de Rais — child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts. The book's authentic, extraordinarily detailed descriptions of the Black Mass have never been surpassed.
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Down There (La-Bas), Joris-Karl Huysmans
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- Down There (La-Bas)
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0486228371
- ISBN13
- 9780486228372
- Series
- Durtal
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Horror, France, French Literature, Gothic, Gothic Horror, 15th Century, Satanism, Sadism, Scripts, Joan of Arc, 1412-1431
- First published
- 1891
- Original title
- La-bas
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, Gilles de Rais — child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts. The book's authentic, extraordinarily detailed descriptions of the Black Mass have never been surpassed.