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Weird fiction has long been not only unappreciated but actively maltreated by orthodox esthetic evaluation, but its stature has improved considerably in modern times, and that has encouraged a reexamination of the genre’s history. It has required nearly two centuries since the beginnings of modern weird fiction in the cradle of the Romantic Movement for…
Alfredo Macall has been one of the most outstanding artists of Hexagon Comics since 2002, drawing many issues of Dragut, Strangers and Guardian of the Republic. His dynamic story sense, wonderful lay-outs, great character design, have not attracted the attention they deserve outside Mexico and Hexagon Comics. Hopefully, this Spotlight book will go to some…
Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the second), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius, humanity has mastered natural forces. However, Oronius’ former colleague Otto Hentzen,…
This anthology collects stories belonging, at least approximately, to the genre of scientific fiction, which were published in various periodicals between 1886 and 1938. Many of them were never reprinted in book form. The early stories–which are arranged in the chronological order of their publication–were produced in an era of relative optimism with regard to…
The Frontiersmen: In the 1860s, the U.S./Mexico border is the theater of strange phenomena, the appearances of monstrous creatures and supernatural threats. To fight them, Stormshadow, the powerful shaman of the Twilight People, gathers around him The Sparrowhawk, Don Juan Ortega y Perez, the legendary hero who fights injustice in war-torn Northern Mexico, and the…
1968. Donald J. Trump, moonlighting for the Tsar’s secret police, is dispatched by his handler to Tijuana to stop a diabolical plan by Republican terrorists to restart a colonial war between the French and Mexican Empires. Tsar? Empires? This satirical novel, starring the most unlikely secret agent of all, takes places on a dystopian alternate…
Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the third), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius, humanity has mastered natural forces. However, Oronius’ former colleague Otto Hentzen,…
Young Morgane Gorlyer works for a prestigious French fashion magazine, but she is also the descendant of the original, much maligned, Morgan Le Fey, an enchantress who was King Arthur’s sister and heir to the secrets of Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, Queen of Avalon. With her boyfriend, Faust (the son of Goethe’s character),…
Readers of Milan’s Flash magazine enjoy the articles written by Sibilla, a chronicler for the occult who investigates vengeful spirits, poltergeists, alleged wizards and other supernatural phenomena that make her skeptic colleague Leonardo Verga cringe. The beautiful Italian writer never hesitates to embark on dark cases, guided by her esoteric knowledge and the magic ring…
Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the fourth), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius, humanity has mastered natural forces. However, Oronius’ former colleague Otto Hentzen,…
Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the last), which chronicles the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius, humanity has mastered natural forces. However, Oronius’ former colleague Otto Hentzen, a…
Paris 1806: The terrible Ange and Jean Tenebre are back in Paris, on a rampage of blood and terror through the streets of Napoleonic France. The undead brothers, ghoul and vampire, are following the commands of Strix, a Satanic witch whose evil actions nearly brought down the Sun King, Louis XIV, decades earlier. Pitted against…
In the summer of 1921, young doctor Francis Ardan and his father are exploring the most remote regions of Upper Siam (now Thailand), when they encounter a dying man whose skin is the color of jade. His revelations lead the intrepid father-and-son team to discover the existence of Inramonda, a secret, underground realm ruled by…
Gun Gallon was created in 1968 by the legendary Italian artist Lina Buffolente. It was one of Editions Lug’s longest-running series, lasting until 1983. In the early 2000s Gun Gallon returned as part of the Hexagon group of heroes and, since then, has guest-starred in a recent series of Strangers. Gun Gallon is a pure…
HOMICRON is a NASA scientist whose body is inhabited by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARCYB is a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. FUTURA is a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension. JALEB is the secretive agent of a Galactic Federation of telepaths. JAYDEE is a teenage, alien metamorph, abandoned on…
Journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, is an idealized projection of its creator, Gaston Leroux, and was originally conceived as a “rival” of Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin. He “borrows” his prodigious deductive powers from Auguste Dupin, M. Lecoq, Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and solves the mysteries he encounters using what he calls “the good bit…
