Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Horror Mainstream

Also known as Là-Bas (Down There) and The Damned.

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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Published
1891

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