A review by _b_t_h_
The Damned (La Bas) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3.0

A very slow boil that never really reaches any sort of climax, and even what could be considered one is cut rather short, but a good book nonetheless. The gory details of Gilles de Rais' murders are nice too, but nothing new if you've read Bataille's "The Trial of Gilles de Rais". Encylopedic knowledge of Black Mass, middle-ages Catholicism, French lit, & a hatred for Modernism abound.