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Three all-new Sherlock Holmes adventures: The Adventure of the Nebrodi Sapphire: Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message warning of a jewel robbery in Paris. By the time he and Watson arrive, the man charged with safeguarding the jewel is dead, presumably murdered, yet the Nebrodi Sapphire does not appear to have been stolen. Who is…
In Rouletabille at Krupp’s (1917), Gaston Leroux followed the template created by John Buchan in Greenamtle (1916), in which a heroic secret agent is conscripted to carry out an officially-sanctioned dangerous mission in enemy territory. Here, it’s fearless investigative journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, who is sent into the heart of the Kaiser’s armaments factories…
Within the history of the French popular fiction, The Conquest of the Air (1875) with its trip around the world in forty days in a steam-powered flying machine, is significant in terms of its prediction of the development of future aviation; as well as its contribution to the development of Vernian fiction. Alphonse Brown was…
Mad scientists, parrots from Atlantis, witches, madmen, monsters, korrigans, demons, magical paintings and a water sprite trapped in a mirror are but a few of the amazing characters featured in this collection of 45 stories from the 1890s and early 1900s, aptly entitled The Crazy Corner, which maps out the frontier between madness and nightmare….
How hard could it be to choose 55 favorites pieces from the art I’ve done in my life so far? When my good friends Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier suggested this book, I was delighted and thought it would be a snap. Not so! I have created literally many hundreds of commissioned portraits over the years,…
Who is the Baron de Saint-Magloire? Coming from nowhere, he has quickly become the most prominent banker in Paris. Ministers and generals flock to his parties, and he has no equal when it comes to amassing money through speculations. But what is his relationship with Macaron, the dreaded anarchist, and Professor Sokoloff, a genius who…
In 1775, industrial chemist Louis-Guillaume de La Follie wrote The Unpretentious Philosopher, in which an inhabitant of Mercury who employs a spaceship powered by electricity to undertake a voyage of exploration to Earth, becomes stranded on our planet when his ship crashes. This forces him to embark on a long search for the exotic materials…
In 1849, the mysterious Doctor Salomon Kanali and his family arrive in a Paris ravaged by a cholera epidemic. But is this Kanali the same embalmer who claimed to have the power to resurrect the dead? And why does his wife fear that her daughter Marthe is being wooed by the same vampire who once…
In 1917, silent film director Louis Feuillade and writer Arthur Bernède created the character of a mysterious avenger, wearing a slouch hat and a dark cloak — Judex! His name means “Judge,” and he has sworn to mercilessly punish criminals! This is a modern-day reimagining of this classic French hero which inspired The Shadow and…
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic French…
Félicien Champsaur’s Ouha, King of the Apes (1923) is the thematic “missing link” between Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (1912) and Edgar Wallace’s King Kong (1933). In it, Ouha, an exceptional ape from the jungles of Borneo, is educated and transformed into the “Napoleon of Apes” by a well-meaning American scientist. But tragically,…
The Future City signed “Alain le Drimeur” (a Frenchification of “Alan the Dreamer”) was published in 1890, probably inspired by Edward Bellamy’s best-selling Looking Backward, 2000-1887. The Future City postulates that the Conservatives left France in 1891 to emigrate en masse to the island of La Réunion, where they established a Roman Catholic kingdom that…
Long before Charlie’s Angels, Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, and even Judith Lee, there was Ethel Boston, the first female consulting detective in America, a former associate of Nick Carter, trained by famous detective William Hopkins. Miss Boston was the prototype of the New Woman, who believed and fought for sexual and legal equality with men….
This is a new collection of seven French proto-science fiction stories devoted to explorations of the future, as imagined in the 1850s and early 1900s, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. This collection includes fantastic explorations of Future Paris by Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Victor Fournel as well as…
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…
Joseph Méry (1798-1866) was the nearest French equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe as a ground-breaking pioneer of speculative fiction. The title piece is a significant exercise in alternate history, in which Méry imagined that Napoleon’s life took a different turn in Egypt in 1799. The Truth About Creation argues in a mock-serious manner that there…
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