Synopsis: Back of book: It is the time of the French Revolution, when Madame Guillotine has a habit of inviting all of noble birth to share her bloody altar. One group of refugees from the misery that shrouds all of France finds shelter in an abandoned and ghost-ridden chateau. They do not realise that it hold secrets in its crypts known only to Marcel Fournier, an evil genius, and one-time partner of Marat and Robespierre. Soon they become the target of Fournier's bizarre and terrifying deeds. Here is a crimson chiller which invokes increasing horror as each secret of the crypts is discovered, explored and overcome.