BLOOD LIGHT Driven to seek refuge during a hailstorm, a hitchhiker ends up at a strange mansion bathed in an everlasting crimson light. A SHROUD OF MIST During stormy nights, terrifying specters haunt the coastline of a small fishermen's village in Normandy.... "Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished screenwriters. The Books of Anguish collect Ruellan's classic horror novels written in the 1950s and 60s for publisher Fleuve Noir.