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Young knight Konrad de Felseneck, last descendant of a noble line, discovers that a curse hangs over his family: women are the curse of the Felseneck since the betrayal of his ancestor during the first crusade. Then he falls into the hands of the beautiful and cruel Gertrude, a young widow whose previous husbands have…
In 1965 (1920) is a amicable and breezy work, with only a slight macabre edge in its comedy, recapitulating and updating the technological innovations of The Electric Life. The history of the twentieth century sketched out in Robida’s earlier books is modified in order to accommodate the Great War, the aftermath of which plays a…
The Gates of Hell is a collection of twenty-six stories originally published in 1910. These tales, in the tradition of the contes cruels, range from a man who keeps a secret with devastating effects to a maniac who finds thrills in witnessing violent accidents, to a blind man who purposely loses his eyesight, to a…
The Crocodile (1792) is a brilliant epic, one of those rare books of which one can say that no one ever wrote anything else like it. The eponymous Crocodile is an attempted saboteur of the Divine Plan, an instrument of the Adversary, who claims to have created and shaped the universe–but who is, after all,…
This elaborate French utopia, written by Monsieur de Listonai (pseudonym of Daniel Jost Villeneuve) and published in 1761, describes the journey of an inhabitant of the Earth to the hidden face of the Moon which is reached via a flying space galley, complete with pilot, navigator and crew. There, he meets the Selenite Arzame who…
Monique is an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man whom her parents have forced on her. She then succumbs to all sorts of carnal temptations including a lesbian love affair with a singer. The scandal provoked by Victor Margueritte’s La Garçonne (1922), here translated as The…
In The New World, the Arctic Utopian community founded at the end of The Human Microbes by Dr. Gaël, comprised of the victims of tyranny rescued by Captain Josiah and his “phantom brig,” is threatened by the evil Judge Roll Wolff, intent on destroying it to cover his crimes… In 1883, the notorious anarchist Louise…
HOMICRON, a NASA scientist whose body is possessed by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK, a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. GOLDEN BOY, champion of Urth, “brother” of Futura, empowered by the Great Mind… ARIANROD, a princess from the ancient Fomore race, who is also the Mistress of the Sword of…
Nathalie Charles Henneberg (1910-1977) remains a unique voice in the history of French imaginative literature. This is the third volume of a multi-volume collection of her works to be released by Black Coat Press. In the first novel, The Light Barrier (1959) Humanity lives in the space age, but one last obstacle blocks its path…
Family dramas, forbidden loves, murders and betrayals, are all present in The Mesmerist (1834) a breathtaking tale of dark romanticism, a genre in which Frédéric Soulié was a master. The action takes place in 1787. Charlotte-Diane de l’Étang, Duchess of Avarenne, is in disgrace, condemned to live in boredom in her country estate. She then…
The French have always had a strong affinity for interplanetary fiction, but none of the celestial bodies have attracted more attention than the planet Mars. Our first volume offered a sample of Martian journeys mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In this second tome, we present four remarkable novels from the early part of…
Chevalier Coqdor and Robin Muscat, the head of Interplan, the interplanetary police force of the Martervenux confederation, thought they were finished with the mysterious Zodiac organization which had displayed such strange and mysterious powers. They believed they had unlocked their awesome secret, older than mankind itself. And yet, from Paris-sur-Terre to the catacombs of Aquarius,…
This collection includes the title story, in which the young American Sherlock Holmes teams up with the great occult detective, Sâr Dubnotal, to defeat a monstrous creature from beyond, as well as a never before translated original Harry Dickson tale from 1935 which lifts the veil over one of the detective’s earliest cases in post-War…
Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term “Scientific Marvel Fiction” to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that owe as much to Edgar Allan Poe as they do to H.-G. Wells. Until now, Renard was best known to the English-speaking public for…
In The Man Who Found Himself (1936), a starship transports the protagonist to a world orbiting Proxima Centauri. After a three-year journey at the speed of light, the hero discovers that that planet is identical to Earth in every respect, except that its history is unfolding 40 years in arrears. His arrival offers the 60-year-old…
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