Meet a house that has one thing on its mind: your grim fate. Or, in this first volume, Edgar H. Price's fate, a college professor and collector smitten by the promise of this sprawling mansion. Edgar comes to Castle Gothic with hopes of scouting antiquarian curios for his private collection. And he comes, perhaps, for a little well-deserved R and R, too. All the while, he has dreamy thoughts of the lovely Flavia Demarco on his mind, who he hopes may soon be paying him a very intimate call. But the castle itself has other plans. Included are verses of other castle visitors in Part Two, including "The Well to you Know Where."