I just finished rereading The Keep after many, many years. Interestingly, I found it to be even better than I remembered it!
I can also better understand why the film that was supposedly based on it is widely viewed by the majority of my fellow posters as such a disappointment.
I guess the equivalent would be if someone had reared a child for 18 years in the best way they knew how, and some cult came along and brainwashed them until they had only a marginal personality left.
NYj
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,"
"Well, John Henry said to the Cap'n, "A man ain't nuthin' but a man. But, before I let that steam drill beat me, gonna die with my hammer in my hand, Lawd, Lawd, gonna die with my hammer in my hand."