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Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such…
Once upon a time, the world was but a stage for the exploits of the Shadowmen… The Vampires haunted the rooftops of Paris… Count Zaroff hunted the Serpent Men in the streets of New York… The Queen of Atlantis killed to save her mythical Kingdom… Arsene Lupin prowled the back alleys of Saigon… While in…
This second collection (after NEWS FROM THE MOON) of 13 proto-science fiction tales and other scientific romances, penned between 1796 and 1921, is translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. From cosmic journeys exploring Mars and Jupiter, examining the nature, languages and reproductive methods of various alien species, to the…
The third in a series collecting the complete weekly “Video Views” columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of November 2000 to May 2001. As the Millennium turned, Bissette wrote with perceptive wit and a greater grasp of cinema history than the high-ticket critics….
The fourth volume collecting the complete weekly “Video Views” columns (1999-2001) by Stephen R. Bissette covers May to October 2001, and miscellaneous video & DVD-related articles from this period — plus an index for the entire four volume set, making this highly-entertaining read into an essential research tool.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first…
Pirates! Mummies! Cannibals! Intelligent Apes! Samurais! Cossacks! And even Saturnians! Meet Saturnin Farandoul and his companions, the fearless Mandibul and the extravagant Tournesol, as they travel the Earth and beyond in a series of wild and picaresque adventures! Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert…
Sixty incredibly detailed Pen & Ink with watercolor paintings of some of the worlds cutest baby animals, puppies, kittens, ponies, baby raccoons, mice, baby ducks, pandas and more by professional artist Raven OKeefe, who has been specializing in wildlife art and animal portraits for 20 years.
1821. Thanks to the technique recently discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. The British Crown put their best man, former Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple on the trail of criminal mastermind Henri de Belcamp, a.k.a. John Devil, who plans to use such technology, and the “Grey Men” it produces,…
When astronaut NICK THALER lands on Mars, he inadvertently frees a powerful alien who was imprisoned there and possesses his body. Back on Earth, a stranded STARLOCK seeks to return to his homeworld by all means possible, endangering Earth’s fragile balance of power… Created by Luciano Bernasconi in the late 1980s towards the end of…
1907. A mysterious criminal known as Fantômas terrorizes London. Only Sherlock Holmes believes in his existence, and he has begun laying the groundwork to arrest him, but Fantômas strikes first, and murders the Great Detective in circumstances that point suspicion at an innocent man. A young Harry Dickson and Sherlock Holmes’ niece, Emily, must expose…
The Circle of Blood: One of Cape May’s most prominent citizens has been the victim of a brutal murder. A cryptic message lies adjacent to the body: a bust of Socrates circled in blood. Holmes and Watson agree to go to the nation’s oldest resort to investigate. The Highland Intrigue: Watson receives a letter from…
Sixteen amazing stories, with only four previously published in English, by the award-winning author of The Night Orchid. A lonely astronaut shepherds a flock of artificial intelligences… A human is captured by a wish-seeking fairy… On a hostile world, a small band of scientists must survive the attacks of a lethal vegetation in exchange for…
IF YOUR POSSUM GO DAYLIGHT attempts to blend whimsical illustrations and inappropriate verse into a whole that is greater than each of its parts. Raven OKeefe and Randy Lofficier have been sisters-in-spirit for over 10 years, often inspiring each other with wild ideas and flights of fantasy. This collaboration came together after an offhand remark…
Jean-Pierre Normand is a professional illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy for the past 30 years. Over two hundred book and magazine covers featuring his work has been published in Canada and the United States. He generally work in ink and liquid acrylic, applied with brush and air-brush on illustration board or canvas. His…
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between 1888 and 1896 by Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where Verne had limited his hero Hector Servadac to traveling on a comet, Le Faure and de Graffigny tell the detailed story of the exploration…
