MORTEFONTAINE In a mist-shrouded, lonely castle, Michel falls in love with Cécile, a beautiful woman who seems to belong to another world... THE THRESHOLD OF THE VOID Wanda, a young artist who's just arrived in Paris, finds an apartment to rent at an unbeatable price, but with strange triangle-shaped room that conceals a terrible secret... "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 screen-writers. The Books of Anguish collect Ruellan's classic horror novels written in the 1950s and 1960s for French publisher Fleuve Noir.