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June 1931. In the ancient city of Lyon, the body of a young woman, mysteriously drained of all life, is found in the Rhône River. Quickly, the Nyctalope gathers all the agents of his Committee for Information and Defense (C.I.D.) to solve this strange case. They discover that the woman’s brain and spinal cord have…
The Nyctalope is the indirect witness to a crime committed by Doctor Korridès, who disintegrated a man who was once one of Leo’s allies. Korridès threatens the Nyctalope’s wife, Sylvie, and their son Pierre. To protect them, Leo sends them to Spain, to his friend Duke Don Pedro d’Arandar. His real enemy turns out to…
Written in 1933, this is the origin story of the greatest of all French pulp heroes. Created by prolific writer de La Hire, it is presented here with three additional short stories also featuring the Nyctalope.
In The Nyctalope vs The Antichrist (1927), the indomitable Leo Saint-Clair, a.k.a. The Nyctalope, faces his greatest foe ever: Leonid Zattan, evil incarnate, Prince of Issyk-Kul, a secret kingdom kocated in central Asia. Leo is drawn into a merciless struggle between two worldwide organizations: one serving Good and defending the established order, led by the…
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers, and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains.
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of Frances most prolific writer of adventure serials. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers, extraordinary senses and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless adventurer who battles with a gallery of colorful super-villains.
On the eve of World War II, Leo Saint-Clair, a.k.a. The Nyctalope, faces one of his deadliest enemies: a mysterious and unidentified foe who has the power to kill remotely by the simple exercise of his will. Who is this secret Master of Life? What are his goals? To find, unmask and neutralize the “Master…
A friend of Leo Saint-Clair, Jacques d’Hermont, calls for his help because he and his family are slowly dying from of a mysterious disease. The Nyctalope investigates and discovers a new, deadly foe: Armand Logreux d’Albury, the so-called “Master of the Seven Lights,” lurking in the Castle of The Cross of Blood… Six years later,…
In 1908, Jean de La Hire, the creator of The Nyctalope, penned The Fiery Wheel, a classic space opera in which five Earthmen are abducted in the eponymous spacecraft by aliens from Saturn, and taken to Venus and Mercury where they encounter strange lifeforms, before returning to Earth through mind transfer. The Fiery Wheel is…
In Jean de La Hire’s original 1943 novel, The King of the Night, translated by Brian Stableford, the Nyctalope travels to Rhea, a wandering planetoid inhabited by two warring races of ape-men and bat-men, and forces the two species to make peace. In its all-new sequel, Return of the Nyctalope, by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier,…
Night of the Nyctalope is a collection of 17 stories featuring Leo Saint-Clair, France’s premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare original tale published in 1944 by the character’s creator, Jean de La Hire, in which Leo saves a young woman from the clutches of…
“The Nyctalope Steps In” is a collection of 15 stories featuring France’s premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare tale serialized in a regional newspaper in 1942, the last story ever written by the character’s creator, Jean de La Hire.
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