In vita mors, in morte vita! In life, death; in death, life! The particular gift of Countess Addhema was to be reborn beautiful and young every time she could apply to the hideous bareness of her skull a living head of hair, a scalp, torn from the head of a living victim. This was why her tomb was full of the skulls of young women... Ren? recoiled in horror at the sight of his mistress restored to her real condition: the cadaver of an old woman, fleshless, cold, totally bald and already turning to dust... "After 1856, it would be a long time before any other writer contrived a vampire as perversely charismatic as Addhema; she is really three vampires in one. She is, first and foremost, the vampire-as-libido-run-wild, but she is certainly the vampire-as-gold-digger too, and she may well have something of the vampire-as-muse to complete her mystique."-Brian Stableford. Paul F?val (1816-1887) was the author of numerous popular swashbuckling novels and one of the fathers of the modern crime thriller. Brian Stableford has published more than fifty novels and two hundred short stories. The Vampire Countess was written in 1855-forty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula-and is one of three classic vampire stories also available from Black Coat Press.

The Vampire Countess

Literature & Fiction

Féval, Paul

Genre Fiction

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Discover classic characters of French comics, from 1925's Zig &amp; Puce, which influenced Tintin, to sexy Barbarella, Jodelle, Felina and Arabelle, the Last Mermaid, the Frankenstein Monster and the fearsome Wampus, Zembla and Durga Rani, King and Queen of the Jungle, superheroes Fantax, Fulguros, Mikros, Photonik, Satanax and Salvator, the starships Space Girl and Hope, which boldly went where no Frenchman had gone before, swordsmen Thorkael, Kabur of Ultima Thule and Prince Kaza of Mars, fearless Tom X and Jacques Flash, cult favorites such as Druillet's Lone Sloane and Pichard's Submerman, and even a French-produced Super Boy! Shadowmen 2 is an indispensable companion to Shadowmen, and of special interest to science fiction, pulp literature, and comic book fans. The book includes bibliographies and story synopses of 45 French comics characters, biographies of the authors, over 330 black &amp; white illustrations and an index.

Shadowmen 2: Heroes And Villains Of French Comics

Comics & Graphic Novels

Lofficier, Jean-Marc

Lofficier, Randy

Graphic Novels

Maurice Leblanc's classic 1909 thriller pits France's Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective in a deadly duel over the age-old secret of the Kings of France. What is the Hollow Needle and what frightening power does it confer? Can Sherlock Holmes and Paris' newest crime solver, young Isidore Beautrelet, wrest its secret from Arsène Lupin Lupin? This new edition has been entirely retranslated for the first time since its original 1910 English publication. It also includes Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late, the very first 1906 Lupin vs. Holmes short story, Escape Not The Thunderbolt, an all-new account of the final encounter between the Gentleman Burglar and the Great Detective (written by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier) and a foreword by Kim Newman (Anno Dracula).

Arsene Lupin Vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Hollow Needle

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

LEBLANC, MAURICE

Jean-Marc Lofficier

kim-newman

Mystery

"There are other beings who know the roads of life and are curious about the paths of death." So says the eccentric Doctor Tribulat Bonhomet of the Eventualists' Society, adding "if we were able to see Nature as it truly is, it is probable that we would shiver in horror," And shiver he does when he meets the Vampiric Soul of one of the savage OTTYSOR... Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), pioneer of the Symbolist Movement, is known for his proto-science fiction works Axel (1885) and L'Eve Future (1886). He also chronicled the colorful adventures of Doctor Bonhomet collected in The Vampire Soul. Poet Paul Verlaine called Villiers' works a "genial melange of irony, metaphysics and terror"and translator Brian Stableford dubs it "a bizarre literary landmark." Stableford has published more than fifty novels and two hundred short stories. The Vampire Soul, written in 1867-thirty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula-is one of the many classic vampire stories available from Black Coat Press. This book is the first English-language edition, and includes an authoritative introduction and historical notes.

The Vampire Soul And Other Sardonic Tales

Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

1834. Using a Pretender to the Throne of France, the powerful crime cartel known as the Black Coats plan to steal one of the largest fortunes of Europe. But from Jerusalem Street in Paris, the headquarters of the Sûreté, to the Castles of Normandy, their schemes are foiled by a new nemesis: a young street urchin nicknamed Pistolet, worthy precursor of Rouletabille and Archie Goodwin. But the dreaded cabal is not so easily thwarted... In this book, for the first time, Paul Féval, the father of the modern detective novel, reveals the origins of the Black Coats and of their mysterious, seemingly eternal master, Colonel Bozzo. Long before the Corleones, Blofeld, Fu-Manchu and Moriarty, the historical saga of the Black Coats, spanning seven volumes of which this is the first to be translated, gave its lettres de noblesse to criminal literature.

The Black Coats: Salem Street

An alien shapeshifter creates chaos on Earth. Classic European cult comics created in 1969 by two of Italy's best graphic novelists. Volume 1 in a series of collected editions packaged by Hexagon Comics.

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Bernasconi, Luciano

Frescura, Franco

Phenix is the secret identity of Chicago socialite Patricia Hope. As the masked, leather-clad, bike-riding superheroine, she fights drug dealers, international terrorists and other kinds of urban menaces. Phenix is a superhero series created by legendary artist Luciano Bernasconi in 1978 for Editions Lug in France. She previously crossed over with Witchblade in Blood Oath published by Top Cow in August 2004.

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Roncagliolo Berger, Juan

1800. On the windswept moors of Brittany, renegade priest Gabriel Le Brec and Count Filhol de Treguern embark on a scheme to defraud an insurance company by faking the death of the latter. This sets in motion a danse macabre of murders, betrayals, people who change their names, lost birth certificates, false testimonies, an Ann Radcliffe romance, a Miltonian struggle between Good and Evil and an impossible phantasmagoria of living men who pretend to be dead and dead men who return to claim vengeance. "The whole plot is a duel between two insanely obsessive sorcerers, Commander Malo Treguern and Dowager Françoise Le Brec. Were it not for Féval's repeated assurances that Malo has Destiny and God on his side, while the Dowager is the Devil's pawn, the reader would surely be at a loss to know which of the two to support." Brian Stableford

Revenants

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Kabur is Prince of Ultima Thul , the capital of Hyperborea in Pangea, 100 million years ago. Framed by the wizard Shamal for a crime he didn't commit, Kabur is banished by his father and condemned to wander the Earth, with the slave girl Lagrid as his sole companion. Kabur is a sword & sorcery series, halfway between Conan and Prince Valiant, that was created by SF writer Claude Legrand and legendary artist Luciano Bernasconi in 1975 for Editions Lug in France.

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