KING PELLES
(from The Once and Future King by T.H. White [New York: Ace Books, 1987])

he second quest which [Lancelot] embarked upon was the turning-point of
his life.  There had been a good deal of talk in Camelot about a certain
King Pelles, who was lame and lived in the haunted castle of Corbin.  He
was supposed to be slightly mad, because he believed himself to be a
relation of Joseph of Arimathea.  He was the sort of man who would become
a British Israelite nowadays, and spend the rest of his life prophesying
the end of the world by measuring the passages in the Great Pyramid. 
However, King Pelles was only slightly mad, and his castle was certainly
haunted.  It had a haunted room in it, with innumerable doors out of which
things came and fought you in the night.  Arthur thought it was worth
sending Lancelot to investigate the place." (369) 

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