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THE SHORES OF NIGHT A cursed book said to have been written by Cagliostro drags an English journalist and his fiancée into an endless nightmare… THE VILLAGE OF LEPERS: From the lake covering a small submerged Italian village emerge the leprous specters of a past era… “Kurt Steiner” is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016),…
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…
Charles Deulin (1827-1877) was a French writer, theater critic, and folklorist who is mostly remembered today for his contemporary adaptations of European folk tales. His work has been kept in print for its humor, sense of wonder, and love for the culture of eastern France/western Belgium. He published two collections of fairy tales, Tales of…
The fate of the mysterious criminal mastermind known as Dr. Cornelius was left uncertain at the end of Gustave Le Rouge’s 1913 classic The Mysterious Doctor Cornelius. Now, Brian Gallagher reveals how the diabolical Doctor escaped justice, selling his surgical skills to whomever pays best. World War One has arrived, and the Great Powers of…
Thirty thousand years ago, in Kobor Tigan’t, the five-tiered city of the Giants… It is the reign absolute of the matriarchy: at the top is Abim, the Very Huge, Mistress of the Underworld; Queen Opak the progenitrix ensures by her fecundity the survival of the race; on every level, women choose the men with whom…
In the 53rd century on the planet Venus, Baby Cyanide and her younger brother have just escaped from the orphanage where they lived when they find themselves involved in a strange quest for a mysterious treasure chest pitting rival space clans against each other… Baby Cyanide was the second major character created by Jean-Claude Forest,…
Deeply rooted in popular culture, the world of piracy has given rise to many familiar characters. From Captain Hook to Long John Silver, Captain Nemo to Jack Sparrow, the adventures of pirates have graced the pages of many novels and seen a multitude of film and television adaptations. Now welcome into these hallowed ranks Bearcub…
This book covers the entire history of French genre television & radio from its early days to 2022. WHAT THE CRITICS SAID: JOHN CLUTE (Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Science Fiction Encyclopedia) “I just now (finally) gotten my copy of French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction and am immediately finding it enthralling.” LOCUS “The most…
Demi-Monde… A group of people on the fringes of respectable society, considered to be of doubtful social standing and morality… Among these are Harry Dickson, the so-called American Sherlock Holmes, gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, spymaster Richard Hannay, Robur, the future Master of the World, the eccentric Doctor Omega, Fantômas, the Lord of Terror, the indomitable Maciste…
This book covers the entire history of French genre cinema from its early days to 2022. WHAT THE CRITICS SAID: JOHN CLUTE (Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Science Fiction Encyclopedia) “I just now (finally) gotten my copy of French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction and am immediately finding it enthralling.” LOCUS “The most enlightening reference…
A panoramic history of French fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century. COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS: “…Fills in a long-neglected bibliographic gap in the study of French-language literature… The authors have covered all the bases in enormous detail.” FOUNDATION: “A truly epic enterprise.” Brian Stableford….
This special issue introduces a character who is both new and yet has been part of the Hexagon Universe since 1963: Captain Ukraine! Nadiya Karine, the modern-day version of this hero, introduced alongside the French Guardian of the Republic in her very first appearance here (in a story by J.-M. Lofficier & Constanzo), is none…
Between 1894 and 1914, Paul d’Ivoi (1856-1915) wrote a series of 21 volumes, collectively entitled The Eccentric Voyages, clearly inspired by and updating Jules Verne’s classic Extraordinary Voyages. While not quite matching Verne for verve and invention, d’Ivoi succeeded in appealing to a new generation of readers by updating many of the great author’s ideas,…
The term “cataclysm” is defined as a large-scale, violent event in the natural world, or a sudden and equally violent political or social upheaval. Such concepts run throughout the history of the French roman scientifique-a genre that some might call proto-sf-from the 18th century to today. In this thematic collection we have gathered ten remarkable…
The theme of alien encounters runs throughout the history of the French roman scientifique-a genre that some might call proto-sf-from the 18th century to today. We have gathered in this thematic collection nine remarkable short stories by Charles Cros, Paul Gsell, Guy de Maupassant, José Moselli, C. Paulon, Maurice Renard, J. H. Rosny Aîné, Edmé…
When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the Darkness from whence they came. Harry Dickson began as an unauthorized Sherlock Holmes pulp series in Germany in 1907, before changing its name and…
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