Download or read book Castle Dismal written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic tale set in South Carolina and sometimes compared to Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Molly Boyd notes in Studies in the Novel (Summer 2003): "Castle Dismal contains two narrative strands, the frame story of Frank Ashley, Ned Clifton, and their Christmas celebrations, and an internal ghost story in which Ned Clifton becomes inadvertently involved during his stay at Castle Dismal."