“House of the Long Shadows” quotes

Plot – Kenneth Magee accepts the bet of his publisher Sam Allyson to write a novel in 24 hours. He will be rewarded with 20,000 dollars, so he travels to an abandoned castle in Wales to write. There he soon discovers that he's not alone: in fact the owners of the house have gathered to decide about the release of their younger son, segregated at 14 because he had raped a girl. They realize the prisoner has escaped and terror spreads throughout the castle, with many deaths to follow one after another. Kenneth is stunned, his novel is successful and he receives the money but he tears up the check after learning it was all a grim masquerade conceived by the editor.