Jules Verne's Carpathian Castle – Léon Benett Engraving, 1890s

Three men — one gripping a walking stick, another bearing a lantern — have just pushed open a heavy door only to find a haggard, wild-eyed figure lurching toward them from the candlelit gloom within. The confrontation crackles with dread; whoever or whatever haunts this castle chamber is about to be revealed. Léon Benett's masterful cross-hatching amplifies the claustrophobic tension of Jules Verne's gothic mystery, 'The Carpathian Castle.'