Selección Terror: Una cripta para Jezabel

Catalog Note *Una Cripta para Jezabel* (A Crypt for Jezabel) by Curtis Garland, published December 1979 by Editorial Bruguera, is a gothic horror novel. The story follows Robin Meyer, a wealthy, carefree young man in Los Angeles, who agrees to a shocking favor from his best friend Walter Nordham: to marry Walter's fiancée, actress Jezabel Lawrence, by proxy at the altar the next day. Walter must rush to New York for his uncle's funeral. Robin attends Jezabel's final theatrical performance that evening and meets her backstage, where they establish an immediate rapport. The narrative hints at supernatural elements to come, with ominous foreshadowing suggesting Robin is descending into unspecified horror. The text establishes the premise of a marriage of convenience that will precipitate dark and terrifying events, though the actual supernatural complications remain unrevealed in the excerpt provided.