Download or read book The Damned (La-Bas) written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.