DARK SANCTUARY

H.B. Gregory
Edited and with an Introduction by D.H. Olson

Casebound - $40.00

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Midnight House is pleased to announce a new edition one of the rarest novels of supernatural horror in the twentieth cetury. Singled out for praise as one of the thirteen best horror novels by the late Karl Edward Wagner, Dark Sanctuary by H. B. Gregory has long been considered unobtainable at any price.

The novel opens with Anthony Lovell, Sr., master of the ancient abbey of Kestrel and its like-named island off the Cornish coast, raving in madness and fear over the ancient family curse that "dwells in the bowels of the abbey rock." What has caused his madness is unclear, but it is obviously linked to something seen or experienced in Kestrel's ancient crypts. Lovell's son is called back from London and, soon thereafter, John Hamilton, a free-lance journalist and friend to the younger Lovell, makes his way to Kestrel as well…

The first thing worth noting in Dark Sanctuary is its use of a historical record to provide authenticity. The history of Kestrel given in chapter one is as fictitious as the abbey and island itself, but it includes just enough real historical data to be believable. Positioned as it is, early in the novel, it also has the benefit of pulling the reader into the story almost immediately.

We feel that the publication of Dark Sanctuary is a major milestone in Midnight House’s efforts to bring classic works of the macabre back into print. We have commissioned new artwork by Allen Koszowski for this edition, which features an insightful introduction by noted editor and scholar D.H. Olson.

Publication of Dark Sanctuary is slated for March of this year, with our standard price of $40.00 the copy