''The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks'' (Spanish:''La Torre de los Siete Jorobados'') is a 1920 novel by the Spanish writer

Emilio Carrere Emilio Carrere (Madrid, 18 December 1881 – Madrid, 30 April 1947) was a Spanish writer. He is best known for his 1920 gothic historical novel '' La torre de los siete jorobados'' (Eng: ''The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks''). In 1944, this was th ...

. It is a

gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

mystery with elements of horror set in 19th-century

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. The body of the story itself is cobbled together from several of Carrere's pre-existing short stories. There is some question over whether Carrere was solely responsible for the work, and some academics believe that Spanish science fiction writer Jesús de Aragón was responsible for substantial portions of the text.

Film adaptation

In 1944 the novel served as the basis for the film '' The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks'' directed by

Edgar Neville Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the "other" Generation of '27. Biography Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood, Los Angel ...

.Hardy & Milne p.86

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Bibliography

* Hardy, Phil & Milne, Tom. ''Horror''. Aurum Press, 1996. 1920 novels 20th-century Spanish novels Novels set in Madrid Spanish novels adapted into films Spanish Gothic novels Mystery novels {{1920s-mystery-novel-stub