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Jack the Ripper is one of the most enduring archetypes in criminal fiction. This book presents, for the first time in English, two of the earliest pieces of Ripper fiction ever written in French: Gaston Marot & Louis Péricaud’s stage play Jack the Ripper from 1889, and No. 16 of the French pulp series The…
Plays by Gonzalo Jover & Emilio G. del Castillo, Jose Maria Martin de Eugenio, and Heraclio S. Viteri & Enrique Grimau del Mauro; Adapted & introduced by Frank J. Morlock. This collection contains five plays written between 1908 and 1916 by Spanish playwrights, who appropriated both English and French popular characters with a considerable degree…
Frank J. Morlock has assembled here three lurid plays of sordid murders and implacable vengeance: In The Lemonade Girl (1894) a wealthy elderly woman is strangled for her valuables. An innocent man is arrested and later guillotined. His daughter, the eponymous “Lemonade Girl,” swears to unmask the real assassin. She is assisted in her mission…
Frank J. Morlock has assembled here three new lurid plays of gruesome murder and deadly mayhem: In THE POLICE AGENT (1889) by Xavier de Montepin & Jules Dornay, a double murder at the notorious Père Lachaise cemetery brings Aimée Joubert, a famous police agent once known as The Cat’s Eye, out of retirement. But catching…
In the early 1800s, young British aristocrat Aubrey travels through Italy and Greece in the company of the mercurial and fantastic Lord Ruthven. Later, he believes his friend to have been mysteriously slain. But when Ruthven returns from the dead to prey on his sister, he realizes that the enigmatic stranger is none other than…
The implacable Lord Ruthven returns in a new, horror-filled story where the deadliest vampire of all comes face-to-face with an even more fearsome enemy-a female Ghoul of great necromantic powers. Both Ruthven and the Ghoul covet the same humans. The shadow-filled castles of Europe become the stage for the ultimate confrontation between Vampire and Ghoul-and…
Arsène Lupin has stolen the Sultan Diamond under the nose of the French Police and Sherlock Holmes has sworn to recover the stone and arrest his rival – all in less than a week! This 1910 French stage play pitting France’s notorious Gentleman Burglar against England’s Great Detective has never before been translated into English!…
A rare 1826 French play by master fantasist Charles Nodier revisits the legend of Frankenstein, recasting the legendary scientist as a sorcerer and his Monster as a mute killer from Hell. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was adapted and rewritten by Victor Hugo himself into a stage play that throws new light on the classic tragedy….
This collection of seven original Holmesian plays, never before published in book form, features the Great Detective’s encounters with none other than Fantômas, the French Lord of Terror, Count Dracula, Father Brown, Theodore Roosevelt and more. Renowned playwright and translator Frank J. Morlock also adapted Lord Ruthven the Vampire, The Return of Lord Ruthven, the…
New York, 1910. A mysterious criminal mastermind stages a daring escape from the courtroom where he is being tried, after having been arrested by Nick Carter, and challenges the world-famous detective to a contest of wits: Will the mysterious “Mr. Melvil” succeed in kidnapping the rich heiress, Helen Dodler, despite all the resources of Nick…
1907. A mysterious criminal known as Fantômas terrorizes London. Only Sherlock Holmes believes in his existence, and he has begun laying the groundwork to arrest him, but Fantômas strikes first, and murders the Great Detective in circumstances that point suspicion at an innocent man. A young Harry Dickson and Sherlock Holmes’ niece, Emily, must expose…
Scotland, 1648. Sir William Clifford expects to receive the vast Ruthven estates after the death of the old Lord, but a young man suddenly appears, claiming to the be the new Lord Ruthven, and also claiming the hand of the beautiful Anna Clifford in marriage. Only Anna’s lover, Dr. Maxwell, knows the handsome stranger’s ghastly…
