Status Updates From Castle Skull: A Rhineland M...

A blackout last night, so I read this creepy story via candlelight.

For some reason, I had to know what this book was about, especially as the second-hand bookshop had a copy of the original publication.

Finished the main book, fun to get back into Carr again. Now just to read the short story later.

It was a breathtaking sight to see Castle Skull illuminated in that fashion, and I have no doubt that nighttravellers on the Rhine gaped up at it. The vast death’s head lifted itself to stare with light. The eyes were enormous oval windows of violetcoloured glass; the nose was triangular and yellow, as were also the arches of the gallery forming the teeth; and all of them shone out with a devilish and sardonic blaze.

“Anything interesting in the news?”
Von Arnheim looked reflectively at the newspaper. “Nothing of consequence,” he answered, in his careless and perfect English. “I see that a certain Archduke Ferdinand has been assassinated at Sarajevo, but the writer of the leading editorial here in the Times is convinced that it is of negligible importance."