Henry Kuttner 11 min read

Summoned at midnight by two black-swathed figures, the young Baron Kralitz follows them through his ancestral castle to learn, at last, the ancient secret of his house.

Henry Kuttner's 1936 story is an atmospheric Gothic horror tale. Dread-soaked, eerie, well-turned. Read it for a moody weird tale in the classic mode, a young heir led to the hidden vaults of his family castle to confront a legendary curse, and a secret that has waited generations for its eldest son.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

11 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).