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Fanttmas rises from the grave (literally), having just escaped from the clutches of the Hangman of London, and leads his two nemeses, Policeman Juve and Journalist Fandor, on a wild chase that takes them from a plague-infested ocean liner to the d...

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In a quiet Normandy village, amateur violinist Denis Borel meets a mysteriouswhite-haired scientist known only as Doctor Omega, who is building an amazingspacecraft.

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A balloon ascent to the Heavens... A man with X-ray vision... A utopian metal city built on giant pylons above Paris... A sexless world in which women reproduce parthenogenetically and man is unknown... Is science insane? Unholy? See nine French a...

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Long before George MacDonald and William Morris, Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de Mouhy (1701-1784), a one-time friend of Voltaire, prolific author of popular and mildly scandalous potboilers (including the first sensational novel about the Man in t...

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The mysterious Lord Ruthwen travels to Venice and strikes again, killing the beautiful Bettina and torturing her lover, Lonti, who swears to avenge her. He joins vampire hunters Aubrey and Nadoor Ali to search for the elusive monster.

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Eyraud's "Voyage to Venus" (1865) was the first novel to describe an interplanetary rocket-powered spaceship. The text has often been mentioned in many histories of space travel and science fiction, although the difficulty of obtaining t...

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The mad Marquis de Saint-Imier attempts to blackmail France and install a reign of mass terror through his control of atomic forces and electromagnetic waves. But against him stand the indomitable Professor Mazelier and his assistant Monsieur Gribal.

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The undisputed masterpiece of Gabriel de Lautrec (1867-1938), THE VENGEANCE OF THE OVAL PORTRAIT, which borrows its title from Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of 28 stories at the crossroads of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Its singular in...

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In Albert Bleunard's Ever Smaller (1893), the first modern novel on the theme of the "Shrinking Man," a group of scientists are shrunken down, first to insect-size, to explore an ordinary garden, which becomes as perilous to them as an a...

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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. Ala...

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In the 40 stories assembled in this collection, originally published in 1901, journalist Paul Vibert explores such ground-breaking concepts as the artificial insemination of elephants with the seed of prehistoric mastodons found preserved in ice, ...

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Twenty years before Peary, a French scientific expedition to the North Pole becomes stranded in the ice. Because of their knowledge and local resources, they manage to build a super-scientific city dubbed Crystalopolis. However, rival American and...

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1866. After the disappearance of their master, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, fourteen years earlier, the Black Coats are a mere travesty of their former selves. Taking advantage of the situation, young Saladin, nicknamed the "Sword-Swallower," the son of ...

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Henri Allorge's The Great Cataclysm (1927) takes place in the Age of Science in the year 9978 when Earth has cooled down and a population of scientists and artists live in a handful of great cities scattered across the globe. They spend their time...

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"The Nyctalope Steps In" is a collection of 15 stories featuring France's premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare tale serialized in a regional newspaper in 1942, the last story ever wr...

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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. Ala...

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Illa's End (1925) begins with the emergence of a new island on which are found a cache of ancient documents and a small fragment of "zero-stone." A scientist manages to decypher the documents, which tell the tale of the apocalyptic clash...

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During one of Napoleon's military campaigns, Edouard Delmont, a young officer, promised to marry Alinska, a Hungarian girl. Back in France, he goes back on his vows and marries someone else. Several years later, Alinska suddenly reappears in his l...

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In "Amilec" (1753), Tiphaigne de la Roche conceived the concept of journeys through the Solar System. A proto-scientist, physician, and contemporary of Voltaire, he penned three fantastic tales of Swiftian satire that are also groundbrea...

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The mysterious traveler through the aether known only as Doctor Omega was created by Arnould Galopin in 1906 in his eponymous novel, first published into English by Black Coat Press in 2003. Since then, many talented authors have created new adven...

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Jack the Ripper is one of the most enduring archetypes in criminal fiction. This book presents, for the first time in English, two of the earliest pieces of Ripper fiction ever written in French: Gaston Marot and Louis Pericaud's stage play "...

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During a tropical storm over the Pacific, French Air Force Captain L'Herbaudire is mysteriously transported to a utopia-like society of free love which rejected money and technology two thousand years earlier. His arrival threatens the very founda...

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Written just prior to World War I, this the story of the first nonstop Paris-to-New York flight by rocket-powered plane--as it never happened. This edition is the first time that the two versions of the story--the original 1917 edition and its rew...

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The seductive sorceress Palmyre teaches her assistant Rene the secret of her magic, including her ability to interact with creatures from other worlds, such as the unspeakable Baal. This edition includes "The Devil's Lovers" (1929), a he...

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This collection offers two, never-before-translated Lupin tales by Maurice Leblanc, plus 19 other stories, including five written especially for this volume.

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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 entice evil.

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Written in 1911, this is the story of the alerion, a flying machine capable of neutralizing gravity by harnessing Earth's telluric currents, powered by atomic disintegration and controlled by radio signals; but even more, it is the story of its in...

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Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut to have gone into space, returns to Earth with deadly alien spores which feed on electricity and threatens to utterly destroy civilization. Varlet's 1930 novel is an exhilarating thriller which extrapolate...

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"The World in 2000 Years" (1878) describes a future in which the primary objective of economic policy is the prevention of the accumulation of money into the hands of relatively few individuals. While making money remains an objective, i...

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"The Tale of Gold and Silence" (1898) is not only Kahn's most overtly extravagant symbolist novel, but one of the most overtly extravagant symbolist novels ever attempted, mingling parables, Old Testament, and visionary fantasies while t...

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