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Gaspard de la Nuit
$20.95Gaspard de la Nuit (originally published in 1842) combines the haunting Gothic imagery of ETA Hoffman with the colorful romantic verve of Victor Hugo. In it, you will meet Scarbo the vampire dwarf, Ondine, the faerie princess of the waters, and an unforgettable assortment of lepers, alchemists, beggars, swordsmen and ghosts. Gaspard de la Nuit…
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Knightshade
$16.95In the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, there are two graves. Each is covered by a black stone, which carry inscriptions in French. On the larger one: Jean T?n?bre, Chevalier; on the smaller: Ange T?n?bre, Priest. They are the T?n?bre brothers… On many occasions, during the last four hundred years, those graves have opened,…
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The Vampire Countess
$22.95In vita mors, in morte vita! In life, death; in death, life! The particular gift of Countess Addhema was to be reborn beautiful and young every time she could apply to the hideous bareness of her skull a living head of hair, a scalp, torn from the head of a living victim. This was why…
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Vampire City
$19.95Some tell of a great city of black jasper which has streets and buildings like any other city but is eternally in mourning, enveloped by perpetual gloom. Some call it Selene, some Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the name of the Sepulchre… To destroy the dreaded vampire lord Otto…
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The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse
$20.95Arthur Conan Doyle takes Professor Challenger to the South of France to meet Professor Picard, Irene Adler and a horror from the ancient past. (“A treat… read it and grin,” Tangent Online.) What extraordinary secrets lie in the weave of an ancient carpet? (Voted Best Story of 1998, Interzone; “particularly strong,” scifi.com.) A young boy…
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Shadowmen 2: Heroes and Villains of French Comics
$20.95Discover classic characters of French comics, from 1925’s Zig & Puce, which influenced Tintin, to sexy Barbarella, Jodelle, Felina and Arabelle, the Last Mermaid, the Frankenstein Monster and the fearsome Wampus, Zembla and Durga Rani, King and Queen of the Jungle, superheroes Fantax, Fulguros, Mikros, Photonik, Satanax and Salvator, the starships Space Girl and Hope,…
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Arsene Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Hollow Needle
$20.95Maurice Leblanc’s classic 1909 thriller pits France’s Gentleman Burglar against England’s Great Detective in a deadly duel over the age-old secret of the Kings of France. What is the Hollow Needle and what frightening power does it confer? Can Sherlock Holmes and Paris’ newest crime solver, young Isidore Beautrelet, wrest its secret from Arsène Lupin…
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The World Above the World
$24.95A balloon ascent to the Heavens… A man with X-ray vision… A utopian metal city built on giant pylons above Paris… A sexless world in which women reproduce parthenogenetically and man is unknown… Is science insane? Unholy? See nine French authors of the 19th century grapple in a ground-breaking fashion with the future themes of…
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Lamekis
$26.95Long before George MacDonald and William Morris, Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de Mouhy (1701-1784), a one-time friend of Voltaire, prolific author of popular and mildly scandalous potboilers (including the first sensational novel about the Man in the Iron Mask) and polemicist, penned one of the first and most extravagant “Extraordinary Voyages.” Lamekis was first published…
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The Vampire Lord Ruthwen
$19.95The mysterious Lord Ruthwen travels to Venice and strikes again, killing the beautiful Bettina and torturing her lover, Léonti, who swears to avenge her. He joins vampire hunters Aubrey and Nadoor Ali to search for the elusive monster… Cyprien Bérard’s The Vampire Lord Ruthwen (1820) was the first sequel to continue John-William Polidori’s 1819 ground-breaking…
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Voyage to Venus
$19.95Published the same year as Jules Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon and Henri de Parville’s An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars, Achille Eyraud’s Voyage to Venus (1865) was the first novel to describe an interplanetary rocket-powered spaceship. Eyraud supports his design with an elaborate (but ultimately flawed) pseudo-scientific argument and describes its…
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Radio-Terror
$20.95The mad Marquis de Saint-Imier attempts to blackmail France and install a reign of mass terror through his control of atomic forces and electromagnetic waves. But against him stand the indomitable Professor Mazelier and his assistant Monsieur Gribal. Who will prevail in the ultimate battle against the Radio-Terror? Eugène Thébault’s Radio-Terror (1929) had the honor…
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The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait
$20.95The undisputed masterpiece of Gabriel de Lautrec (1867-1938), THE VENGEANCE OF THE OVAL PORTRAIT, which borrows its title from Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of 28 stories at the crossroads of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Its singular inspiration owes as much to the author’s predilection for dark humor, Grand Guignol and the mixing…