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Have you ever wondered what happened to some of your favorite heroes (and heroines) of classic literature after the last page of their adventures? Did they quietly retire to play Scrabble or do macramé? Or did they have further adventures, as yet unrelated? John Peel opts for the latter – and reveals some of the…
While on vacation in Australia, the GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC sees a flying saucer invade a secret Australian army base. With the providential help of two stalwarts heroines, the American PHENIX and the Australian SOUTHERN CROSS, he rushes to the rescue, only to discover a new and deadly foe, the fearsome KUDLEY KOALA… The strange…
The creation of a new kind of woman may bring doom to all men… Avoid Sherwood Forest at night, or risk becoming a participant in the deadliest blood sport of all… What would you be willing to do to bring Jack the Ripper to justice? A prehistoric wolf is loose in the timestream… In this…
We often say that certain characters from literature are “immortal”. So, if they are immortal, surely they must have had further adventures? John Peel knows that they did, and he recounts further tales of those classic greats… What hidden adventure did Captain Nemo have that was excluded from his tale? What strange streets of Victorian…
Enter the ENCHANTERS, composed of SIBILLA, heir of Cagliostro, the powerful Lakota shaman OZARK, KEL and THE METAL MAN, from the distant world of New Camelot, created by the Goddesses of Love and Hate… The latter, the evil ARUNA, once banished from our planet by the powers of Birrell, the Druid Supreme, is trying to…
DICK DEMON is a descendant of Gal, the first Lord of theTwilight People, fugitives from another universe… STORMSHADOW is the powerful shaman of the Twilight People… STARCYB is a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities and ancient enemies of the Twilight People… MORGANE is a witch, descended from the legendary Morgan Le Fey……
This is the first of three volumes of translations of Antoine-Louis Duclaux, Comte de L’Estoille (1835-1894). This book collects his earlier works, including the Breton fantasy The Miller of Carnac (1866), as well as a suite of Arabian Tales (1865), the prose poems of Symphony (1867), the defiantly experimental Fusains (1868), and the epic drama…
Towards the end of the 17th century, under the reign of the Sun King Louis XIV of France, in Brittany, Count Guy de Rohan is dispossessed of his great wealth and exiled due to the villainous schemes of the Royal Steward and Alain Polduc, a jealous relative. His son is dead, but his daughter, Valentine,…
1942. North Africa. Under the direction of Erwin Rommel, the Nazis prepare to seize the mysterious city of Heliopolis, once the home of the mythical Egyptian gods and the depository of all their secrets. This will insure Germany’s victory and her domination of the world. But in order to stop him, French General Leclerc has…
The Song of the Skylark (1880) is quite uncategorizable, defying classification as a novel, yet its complexity stretching the notion of a book-length “poem in prose”. It is unique in the annals of French literature, although it has certain affinities with Edgar Quinet’s Merlin the Enchanter (1860), which similarly attempts to fuse a transfiguration of…
Marie Nizet’s vampire novel Captain Vampire (1879) has remained unfairly neglected for more than a century. Rediscovered by Romanian historian Radu Florescu, some have speculated that it may have influenced Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Both a war novel and a supernatural epic, Captain Vampire has now become a classic of fantasy literature. Brian Gallagher continues…
On Christmas’ Eve, during a particularly cold, wind-swept night, Parisians rush through the streets, eager to arrive home… Suddenly, an unexpected threat appears: NUMBER-ONE, a sentient robot created by the mad scientist ASTAROTH, has returned to wreak havoc on the French capital! Only the GUARDIAN OF THE REPUBLIC, his sidekick MARIANNE, and the powerful NIGHT…
This third and final collection of Comte de L’Estoille’s works features Les Amoureuses, a collection of short prose poems and dramas, including “Gyptis,” a tragedy set within the context of L’Estoille’s pseudohistory of Gaul, and “Marthe” and “Rosalie,” both resentful responses to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. It also contains the more upbeat…
Noblesse Oblige! Privilege entails responsibility, and requires a person who holds an elevated status fulfills certain responsibilities — an attitude illustrated here by fourteen stories in which some of the bravest heroes of popular fiction display their true nobility by acting beyond reproach! The Phantom Angel must find out who killed one of the Seven…
Across the gulf of time, the dreaded Demon Queen Mauve has pitted Kabur, exiled Prince of Thule, against Zembla, the Lord of Lions. Torn from their native worlds, the two heroes become the pawns in an inter-dimensional game of carnage and conquest… No matter who wins, Earth will lose! Drawn by top Spanish artist Mike…
Since the dawn of time, tales about larger-than-life heroes have fascinated humanity. An implacable enemy is stalking the Black Lys… The Sea King faces his deadliest challenge… Jessica Puma and Roxy confront a dark sorcerer in South Central L.A…. How did Jean Vlad become The Other… Wampus strikes in Italy… Sibilla and the rest of…
