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The mad scientist is a stereotypical, archetypal scientist who is often a cliché or commonplace in popular fiction. He can be absent-minded and harmless, or wicked and dangerous. French science fiction, in particular, features a remarkable number of novels and stories on this theme, enough to justify the three volumes that we intend to devote…
The theme of the resurrection from the dead takes multiple aspects, that of ghosts, zombies and vampires, but nothing is more frightening and seductive as the latter. Whereas a ghost is nothing more than a dead person who persists in wanting to continue living, it is in a form that ranges from the ineffably ethereal…
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…
Stories by Matthew Baugh, Atom Mudman Bezecny, David Friend, Martin Gately, Travis Hiltz, Paul Hugli, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Nigel Malcolm and John Peel. The mysterious traveler through the aether known only as Doctor Omega was created by Arnould Galopin in 1906 in his eponymous novel, first published into English by Black Coat Press in 2003. Since…
Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928 by French author Guy d’Armen in the pages of the magazine L’Intrépide five years before Doc Savage. In The Hurricane Master (1931), Doc Ardan is asked to investigate mysterious hurricanes that disturb maritime traffic in the French Pacific. He is able to expose and defeat…
The theme of the resurrection from the dead takes multiple aspects, that of ghosts, zombies and vampires, but nothing is more frightening and seductive as the latter. Whereas a ghost is nothing more than a dead person who persists in wanting to continue living, it is in a form that ranges from the ineffably ethereal…
Spring 1945. The end of the Second World War is near… Paris has just been liberated… The Germans are retreating everywhere… The Americans are coming… However, there is still time for some desperate missions, such as stopping a last train of Jewish children from being taken by the Nazis to the death camps! The Guardian…
In this collection of “Cruel Tales,” we meet a unique and colorful cast of extraordinary characters such as Akedysseril the Queen of India, Mayeris the big game hunter who capured the sacred white elephant, Maryelle the courtesan, Catalina the gypsy toast of Santander, Mahoin the brigand, the murderous Doctor Hallidon, Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada…
“There are other beings who know the roads of life and are curious about the paths of death.” So says the eccentric Doctor Tribulat Bonhomet of the Eventualists’ Society, adding “if we were able to see Nature as it truly is, it is probable that we would shiver in horror,” And shiver he does when…
Tibet, 1927. Intrepid explorer Doctor Ardan is taken prisoner by the diabolical Natas, who has discovered the secret of making gold through nuclear fusion, and rules over a city of slaves whom he controls with an unholy brand of leprosy. Can Doc Ardan, with the aid of beautiful Louise Ducharme, thwart the Oriental Mastermind’s evil…
ROBONOCCHIO is the classic Collodi tale recast in modern terms: a robot boy, built for an amusement park owned by the evil conglomerate AMALGAMATED BEHEMOTH, is brought to life by a whimsical blue alien. He and his designer must escape from the villains’ evil clutches. J.-M. & Randy Lofficier are the award-winning writers of numerous…
NIGHTSPEEDER follows the adventures of starship pilot Finn and her holographic navigator as they carry 4,000 emigrating humans through hyperspace to a new colony. Endangering the trip are a mysterious being known only as YAMA, and the RAKASHAS, evil entities from beyond space who attempt to keep Finn trapped in hyperspace. Emma Bull and Will…
In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. A man survives a car crash only to find himself trapped in a private clinic at the mercy of its lunatic owner, the terrifying DOCTOR DESPAIR. The Doctor…
A grifterish film noir, patterned after something Jim Thompson might have written, THE IRON TRIANGLE refers not only to the relationship between its three protagonists, but also to the technique policemen use to subdue suspects-and sometimes kill them. AMERICAN BEAUTY-meet ENTER THE DRAGON. Mike Baron has been one of the most innovative and honored creators…
Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself drafted against her will in a faerie war between the Summer and Winter Courts, the WAR FOR THE OAKS. While trying to cope with her new otherworldly bodyguyard, the Pooka, Eddi also struggles to build a new life, a new band,…
Arnaud returns to the small village of his birth in the Pyrénées Mountains. A rogue bear is terrorizing the area, but is it an ordinary beast or a reincarnation of the legendary bear-god ARTAHE? Arnaud begins his investigation into an ancient pagan cult led by the old woman who raised him-but for what purpose? This…
