New Releases: November 2025

 The Mesmerist

by Frédéric Soulié; translated by Stuart Gelzer & Michael Shreve; cover by Daniele Serra. read a chapter. 280 p. $22.95.
Family dramas, forbidden loves, murders and betrayals, are all present in The Mesmerist (1834) a breathtaking tale of dark romanticism, a genre in which Frédéric Soulié was a master. The action takes place in 1787. Charlotte-Diane de l'Étang, Duchess of Avarenne, is in disgrace, condemned to live in boredom in her country estate. She then learns of the hypnotic experiments of young Doctor Lussay, and of Louise, whose behavior after undergoing the doctor's treatment, worries her fiancé, Jean d'Aspert. Intrigued, then attracted, the Duchess starts an affair with Jean. The storm of the Revolution passes, as do the Napoleonic Wars... Jean, now a general, rescues the Duchess, who has moved to Rome, and learns that he is the father of her child...

  Kabur #12: The Birth of the Natrix

by Jean-Marc Lofficier; art by José Luis Ruiz Perez, Roberto Castro, Gabriel Mayorga, Manuel Martin Peniche; cover by Roberto Castro; foreword by Roy Thomas.. 7x10 squarebound. 96 pages b&w. $14.95
Kabur's quest in Gondaxa is finally comes to an end, but his reunion with the beautiful Lagrid is not what he had hoped for... First, he must defeat Selinor Psah, the Sultan-Sorcerer of Arkhanal, whose monstrous plans are finally revealed...  Plus three TALES OF KABUR recounting heretofore untold adventures of our hero, a sketchbook of Roberto Castro's alternate covers and a foreword by legendary Conan writer Roy Thomas.

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