There, below, or the abyss. GUISMANCS Zoris-Carl

"Catholic trilogy" J.-K. Guissmans begins with the novel “There, below, or the abyss” (1891). The main character, Dürtal, is the writer. He is endowed with the character of the Gyusmans himself. Dyurtal writes a novel about the wire de Rae-a blue beard, a mighty warrior of a hundred years of war and a children's necromancer. The writer is trying to understand Gilles de Rae, to penetrate the secret of terrible torture. Therefore, he joins the Black Mass and the study of modern Satanism, simultaneously comparing these rites with rituals from the time of the associate of Jeanne d’Arc. This alarming novel is the highest point of the decadent era.