Castle Ugly Author:Mary Ellin Barrett Castle Ugly is a house: huge, hideous, magnificent, set on the dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at the far end of Long Island. To the girl who grew up there, married now and living on the Cote d'Azur half a world away, Castle Ugly stands as a mysterious symbol of all that is unsolved in hr own life. It was there at Castle Ugly in the summe... more »r of 1938 that a group of rich, careless, beautiful people slipped toward tragedy, playing out the acts of a love story that began with casual dalliance and ended in violent death.« less