The Damned (La-Bas) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Teresa Hale (Translator)

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✅ Language - English

✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ Pages Amount 306

✅ Summary -

A dark, decadent descent into the sinister world of late 19th-century Parisian Satanism.

Disgusted by the cheap materialism and vulgarity of modern life, a cynical writer named Durtal turns to history for an escape. He begins researching a biography of Gilles de Rais—the infamous 15th-century serial killer, child murderer, and dark alchemist. But Durtal’s obsession with historical evil soon bleeds into his reality. Guided by a mysterious, alluring married woman named Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn into a secretive, subterranean world of modern occultists, black magicians, and spiritual deviants hiding in the heart of Paris. His journey culminates in a horrifyingly vivid, graphic depiction of a Black Mass.