About the book: 2006 / Student at the Los Angeles Film Institute, and later a prominent film critic, Jonathan Gates becomes obsessed with the legendary expressionist director Max Castle, who shot several scandalous masterpieces in 1920 -e years in Germany and a string of horror films in Hollywood before disappearing without a trace in 1941. Castle's films have a strange, hypnotic effect, giving rise to a sense of literally tangible evil. And their secret turns out to be associated with one of the most mysterious pages in the history of the Middle Ages…