Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
RAY RUSSELL was born in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, and served in the United States Air Force during World War II in the South Pacific. After the war, he attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the editorial staff at Playboy, where he published such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Robert Bloch, and Charles Beaumont. His best-known work, 'Sardonicus', was called by Stephen King 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written'. He died in Los Angeles in 1999. GUILLERMO DEL TORO is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and designer, most famous for his Academy Award-winning film, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film franchise. He has received the Nebula, Hugo, and Bram Stoker awards and is an avid collector and student of arcane memorabilia and weird fiction.
"Russell links postpulp literature and the Grand Guignol tradition
with the modern sensibilities of America in the 1960s. Within him
resides a neo-paganistic streak that is passed from Algernon
Blackwood and Sax Rohmer to him and other writers of unusual
proclivities, such as Bernard J. Hurwood. A fascinating combination
of the liberal and the heretic... Russell is the literary
equivalent of the Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, a supersaturated
neo-Gothiscist who shines above the premises of his material based
on style, conviction, and artistic flair." - Guillermo del Toro,
from the introduction
Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:
“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro,
feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen
in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of
the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography." – Dan Solomon,
Fast Company
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