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  • Perfectibility and Resurrection
    Charles Nodier / Brian Stableford
    This collection of works by Charles Nodier (1780-1844) juxtaposes three essays with six items of fiction, all the items being concerned to some degree with what he called the fantastique, a genre of literature that he helped to define and in which he was greatly interested. Such a mixture is useful because it is impossible fully to appreciate his relevant works of fiction-of wh...
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    27,71 €

  • The Four Talismans and Other Stories
    Charles Nodier / Brian Stableford
    The Four Talismans and Other Stories is the final volume in a series of collections of the work of Charles Nodier (1780-1844), the great pioneer of the prose fiction of the French Romantic Movement. The stories in the present collection, often fantastic and unashamedly intellectual, mostly appear here for the first time in English, in masterful translations by Brian Stableford....
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    29,72 €

  • French Tales of Vampires (Volume 3)
    Jean-Marc Lofficier / Brian Stableford
    In the 1850s, when Paul Féval wrote The Vampire Countess, no one in France knew for sure how tolerant the reading public might be of fictions which brought vampirism into the real world. All the French literary works in which vampires had previously been featured had been calculatedly fanciful romances drawn from foreign sources and set in faraway places. A tale of Paris in the...
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    32,94 €

  • The Chambrion and Other Stories
    Pierre-Alexis Ponson Du Terrail / Brian Stableford
    Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail was one of the two leading exponents of the roman feuilleton--serial fiction published in newspapers--active during the French Second Empire, along with Paul Féval. At his peak Ponson was writing five daily serials simultaneously, making them up as he went along--and he really did write them, unlike many feuilletonists, including Féval, who dicta...
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    17,54 €

  • French Tales of Vampires (Volume 2)
    Brian Stableford
    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 is nothing more than a dead person who persists in wanting to continue living, it is in a form that ranges from the ineffably ethereal to the grotesquely repulsive. The vampire, on the other hand, ...
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    33,01 €

  • Magic Lantern
    Théodore de Banville / Brian Stableford
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    23,15 €

  • Nature’s Shift
    Brian Stableford
    In the not-so-distant future, when biology is changing the human form and structure, Peter Bell the Third renews his friendship with Rowland Usher. In the new House of Usher that Rowland is creating in the Orinoco Delta, Usher is conducting experiments in genetics. Rowland’s twin sister, Magdalen, who has committed suicide for reasons that no one understands, suddenly begins 'h...
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    16,48 €

  • The Cthulhu Encryption
    Brian Stableford
    The Shoggoths attack: 'They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again.... They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable--but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE.' Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Com...
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    16,41 €

  • Journey to the Core of Creation
    Brian Stableford
    It is 1847, and Paris is edging closer to its next revolution, but somethingis also astir inside Mont Dragon in the Ardèche. This is a place of annualpilgrimage for a band of enigmatic nomads, and also a place of interest to theambitious Bishop of Viviers. In spite of his distaste for travel, AugusteDupin makes the long southward journey, in the hope that he might be able tohel...
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    16,43 €

  • The Bacchantes
    Leon Daudet / Brian Stableford
    In this classic science fiction novel, Romain Ségétan, a brilliant scientist whose creativity is intimately linked to his erotic experience, particularly in its visual dimension, is struggling to develop a technology to capture and control the 'waves of time,' which will allow recurrent images and other echoes of the past to be brought forward into clearer focus. After being te...
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    16,41 €

  • The Walking Shadow
    Brian Stableford
    Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the future. The Earth has been devastated by war with an alien race, and the changes that have resulted from the degradation of the world’s biosphere force him--and others--to rethink the...
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    19,66 €

  • The Curse of the Coral Bride
    Brian Stableford
    In the far future, Earth is slowing dying, as the Sun has turned into a red giant that threatens to explode. The last inhabitants of the planet have no idea why they’re still living, and why they seem to have been made in the image of earliest man--and not the countless human species that have existed since. But they still have to time to ponder, and time to kill--and they do s...
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    21,55 €

  • Gothic Grotesques
    Brian Stableford
    This find collection of essays by master science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Brian Stableford covers horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index. ...
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    19,10 €

  • Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
    Brian Stableford
    In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett. Complete with detailed index. ...
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    22,18 €

  • The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
    Brian Stableford
    THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION!It’s the new frontier of scientific development: genetic engineering, the crafting of species, and the self-alteration of man himself. Here are nine stories at the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution-'The Cure for Love,' 'Ashes and Tombstones,' 'Slumming in Voodooland,' 'The Color of Envy,' 'The Lady-Killer, as Observed from a Safe Distance,' 'Bu...
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    16,52 €

  • The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies
    Brian Stableford
    Brian Stableford’s The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies contains ten funny short stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including the first publication of the long fantasy novella, 'The Phantom of Teirbrun.' ...
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    16,59 €

  • French Tales of Vampires Volume 1
    Brian Stableford
    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 is nothing more than a dead person who persists in wanting to continue living, it is in a form that ranges from the ineffably ethereal to the grotesquely repulsive. The vampire, on the other hand, ...
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    32,94 €

  • Prelude to Eternity
    Brian Stableford
    In an alternate England in which Cromwell’s revolution succeeded, Michael Laurel attends a 19th-century party to witness the demonstration of the first time machine. But Michael comes to realize that the entire future of the world might be at stake--and the past as well--if the machine malfunctions. How can he, a mere artist, possibly make a difference to the ultimate fate of t...
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    16,40 €

  • French Tales of Mad Scientists Volume 3
    Brian Stableford
    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 to this topic. In this thematic col...
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    32,94 €

  • The Memoirs of Maxime Odin
    Charles Nodier / Brian Stableford
    In 1831 Charles Nodier began to publish a series of 'Extraits des mémoires de Maxime Odin' in the Revue de Paris. Although 'Odin' is an anagram of the first four letters of Nodier, the relationship between the author and 'Maxime Odin' is far more complicated than a simple transfiguration, and although all the stories in the present collection are entirely fictitious, the intens...
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    26,16 €

  • French Tales of Mad Scientists Volume 2
    Brian Stableford
    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 to this topic. In this thematic col...
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    32,94 €

  • The Cthulhu Palimpsest
    Brian Stableford
    'Cthulhu has many instruments, but all of them are possessed of free will, and magnetic power can only operate mysteriously, even on the most primitive and stubborn brains.'  Written to complete and conclude a series of metaphysical fantasies featuring Auguste Dupin, a character invented by Edgar Poe, which involve him with characters and entities invented by H. P. Lovecraft, a...
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    22,97 €

  • Pantomimes and Other Surreal Tales
    Paul Margueritte / Brian Stableford
    Paul Margueritte (1860-1918), though principally remembered today as a writer of Naturalist fiction and for his scandalous novel Tous quatre (1885), did, during a period when he was writing for the Écho newspaper, have a brief experimental phase during which he produced a series of proto-surrealist tales, as well as dabbling in weird and supernatural fiction.The items in the pr...
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    21,06 €

  • The Princess of Darkness
    Rachilde / Brian Stableford
    Rachilde, the writer whose formal name was Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1853), is primarily remembered today for her sensational decadent novel Monsieur Vénus (1884), which was prosecuted as pornography in Belgium, where it was initially published, resulting in a conviction and a sentence of two years’ imprisonment imposed in absentia. She was, however, the author of numero...
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    23,16 €

  • Human Life
    Jules Lermina / TBD / Brian Stableford
    In 1892 Jules Lermina (1839-1915) published a collection of short fiction titled La Magicienne, with the specialist occult publisher Chamuel. The current volume brings together the bulk of the material in that book, subsidized by additional items-two short occult fantasies and a humorous novelette. For most of the twentieth century Lermina’s works were the almost-exclusive prov...
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    24,09 €

  • Rapid Tales
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford
    From April 1897 until April 1903, Jane de La Vaudère (1857-1908) published in the Parisian newspapers La Presse and La Lanterne a series of over one hundred vignettes, mostly under the heading Contes Rapides. These brief stories, of beauty, horror, humor, love, and cruelty, carry strategies of narrative minimalism to a new level, and show the work of a masterful female author w...
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    30,73 €

  • Isuren and Other Stories
    Henri Martin / Brian Stableford
    Henri Martin (1810-1883), a part of the coterie surrounding Honoré de Balzac, though largely forgotten today, deserves credit for writing 'Isuren,' the first significant French contribution to what eventually became a subgenre of 'prehistoric fantasy,' extensively developed in the belle époque, when the censorious privileges of the Church had finally evaporated, by such neo-Rom...
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    16,68 €

  • The Story of the King of Bohemia and his Seven Castles
    Charles Nodier / Brian Stableford
    The Story of the King of Bohemia and his Seven Castles, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the most unusual works of Charles Nodier, and can readily be seen as a remote precursor of Alfred Jarry’s 'pataphysics,' Guillaume Apollinaire’s 'surrealism' and Dadaism. Originally published in 1830, more than a hundred years befo...
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    24,23 €

  • Sabbat
    Hélène Picard / Brian Stableford
    Sabbat, by Hélène Picard (1873-1945), first published in 1923, is one of the most forthright contributions to the rich French tradition of 'literary Satanism.' It was issued as part of a 'Collection Colette,' and is dedicated to Colette, who also provided the preface, the brief text of which implies strongly that the book was commissioned by her. Seeing Satan emerging from a po...
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    21,94 €

  • The Temple of Gnide
    Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu / TBD / Brian Stableford
    Originally published anonymously in 1725, and here presented in a fresh translation by Brian Stableford, The Temple of Gnide is Montesquieu’s illicit smash hit from the Age of Enlightenment. The author, whose works were all placed on the Index Prohibitorum by the Church, making it a sin to read them, or even to know of their existence, composed this short novel, or long prose p...
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    13,24 €


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