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Gustave Aimard
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…
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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…
Jean-Marc Lofficier
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…
Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier
Cosmic events cause Gullivar Jones and Edgar Allan Poe to meet–and learn to work together to stop the machinations of Rodrik-Usher the Damned before both their worlds are destroyed.
Into The Twilight Zone: The Rod Serling Programme Guide includes complete episode guides with cast, credits and story summaries of the original Twilight Zone series, as well as its many…
Eminences Grises! The secret and powerful decision-makers who operate behind the scenesm are featured here in seventeen stories in which some of the strangest and most mysterious heroes and villains…
Dedicated to la vie en noir, the darker side of life, this volume is a treasury of 20 stories about the evil fantomas and the mysterious Yellow Shadow, the crafty…
In this very special tenth anniversary issue of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, we find a pantheon of contributors…
This dual nature of the vampire, stretching between love and death, creates a moral ambiguity which is omnipresent in its literary treatment, incorporating and contrasting seduction and horror, heroism and…
The stories contained in this collection, featuring some of the most famous vampires in literary history, incorporate all of these contradictions; in them, vampires can be both super-human and sub-human…
From the sun-bleached streets of Tunis to the bottom of the seas, from the sordid back alleys of Paris to the blood-drenched trenches of the Somme, Sar Dubnotal, the Great…
The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside… Alf… The Ghostbusters… Hellraiser… Judex… The Nyctalope……
In this thirteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, writers from Canada, England, France and the United States…
Over the last three decades, several film production companies have held the rights to make a
A comic book fan finds a financial windfall, which in turn leads him to assume the role of a pseudo-billionaire. But his new lifestyle, and more importantly, his friends, are…
In the Paris sewers, Judex and a young Maigret battle the Frankenstein Monster. Meanwhile in Tibet, Alexander Whateley’s plans to bring about the return of Yog-Sothoth are thwarted by the…
This second anthology of new stories featuring heroes and villains from pulp literature combines the talents of renowned American, British, Canadian, and French authors such as Xavier Maumijean, Kim Newman…
Fantomas is dead, long live Fantomas. Doctor Omega and Captain Kronos challenge the might of the Vampire City. The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants. King Kong falls in…
The most villainous cast to ever grace the pages of popular literature spreads evil from the foggy underworld of London to the seedy taverns of Mars, and from the flowery…
As Hurricane Katrina prepares to strike New Orleans, Hugo Van Helsing, the modern-day descendent of that notorious family, comes to the Big Easy to investigate the mysterious death of his…
This fifth anthology features some of the most amazing encounters between the legendary heroes and villains of popular literature including Count Dracula and Josephine Balsamo, and Lord Ruthven and the…
The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside. The walls between the worlds of fiction…
This seventh volume of the only international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world’s most fantastic heroes from popular literature spotlights beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, and enticing women.
Force Majeure! Two words which convey the notion of catastrophe, a sense of urgency, earth-shaking events when only the greatest of champions can successfully face off with the most cataclysmic…
The international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world’s most fantastic heroes and villains returns in this eighth installment. This time, the stories focus on those who provoke or…
This sixth volume is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy.
stories by Jason Scott Aiken, Tim Newton Anderson, Jean-Michel Archaimbault, Matthew Baugh, Atom Mudman Bezecny, Thom Brannan, Nathan Cabaniss, Bill Cunningham, Matthew Dennion, Paul Di Filippo, Brian Gallagher, John Gallagher…
In this fifteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, writers from England, France, Switzerland and the United States…
A panoramic history of French science fiction literature from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century.
COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS: …Fills in a long-neglected bibliographic gap…
HEXAGON COMICS: THE FIRST 70 YEARS is a discovery of unsung European comic books, heretofore unseen by American readers (Will Eisner), and an eye-filling collection of some of the best…
In this fourteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the Marquis de Lafayette finds himself transported to Mars while Silver John runs afoul of Madame Atomos. Captain Vampire is plagued…
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…
In this sixteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, writers from England, France and the United States unite…
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…
Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier
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…
This book covers the entire history of French genre television & radio from its early days to 2022.
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Noblesse Oblige! Privilege entails responsibility, and requires a person who holds an elevated status fulfills certain responsibilities – an attitude illustrated here by fourteen stories in which some of the…
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…
The mad scientist is a stereotypical, archetypal scientist who is often a cliche or commonplace in popular fiction. He can be absent-minded and harmless, or wicked and dangerous. French science…
Guido Zamperoni
Twenty-five year-old Ben Leonard, a journalist working for the newspaper The Globe, suddenly discovers that he is the reincarnation of the mythical Egyptian sun-god R?, the Lord of Light and…
This companion to Shadowmen will be of interest to science fiction, pulp literature, and comic book fans. Included are bibliographies and story synopses of 45 French comics characters, biographies of…
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…
Marc Agapit,Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier
Stormshadow introduces the tale of a man who survives a car crash, but finds himself trapped in a private clinic at the mercy of its lunatic owner, the terrifying Doctor…
Jean-Marc,Randy Lofficier
The Doctor Who Programme Guide is the complete guide to every Doctor Who story shown on television. The stories are listed in order of broadcasting, starting with the first episode…
After avoiding the many traps of the city of Foralume, KABUR, now alone since Arianrod's departure, must cross the Purple Sea to reach the Southern Continent of Gondaxa, which he…
Brian Gallagher
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…
