![]() Sandoz's later The House Without Windows ( 1950) is a philosophical novel which features a house with such "futuristic" innovations as an elevator, diffuse lighting, and hidden heating in pre-World War One Switzerland. It was filmed by William Cameron Menzies as The Maze ( 1953). The novel, set in the fictitious Craven's Castle, is superficially a Gothic SF mystery, and posits the hidden heir as a 175-year-old Mutant whose embryonic development was arrested at the amphibian stage. Of primary interest is his novel The Maze ( 1945), evidently based on the legend of a monstrous heir of Scotland's Bowes-Lyon family kept hidden in a secret room in Glamis Castle. ![]() His fiction often included elements of Horror and sometimes bordered on the fantastic and surreal (see Fantastika). ![]() (1892-1958) Swiss author and composer who earned a PhD in chemistry but devoted himself to the arts. ![]()
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