New Releases: October 2026

by Nathalie Charles Henneberg translated by William Oarlock. Cover by Aurelien Maccarellii. read a chapter. 6x9 tpb, 314 p. $22.95.
Nathalie Henneberg (1910-1977) remains a unique voice in the history of French imaginative literature. This is the second volume of a multi-volume collection of her works to be released by Black Coat Press. This volume collects Starblood (1963) and The Lost Fortress (1962). The former is the colorful tale of a parallel medieval Earth featuring elementals and astronauts vying for the love of a Salamander; and the latter, set in 2400, is the story of a colony ship arriving at the haunted planet of Isis in Alpha Centauris. Combining classic French and Golden Age American SF reminiscent of Jack Williamson and Robert Heinlein, with “Old World” literature, sagas and epics, her writing precedes the “New Wave” of the 1960s and later mythopoetic space operas by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer and Joan D. Vinge. 

Art by  Carlo Cedroni, Stelio Fenzo & Franco Oneta; cover by Luca Pozza. 124 p b&w. $15.95.
In Strangers No. 15, we introduced a new group of characters, The Freeshooters, four heroes pulled from various periods of Earth’s history. Thanks to our “Classics” reprint series, you can now discover the original stories that featured these characters:
* Lone Bardo is a character inspired by Phileas Fogg, and was created in 1958 by Carlo Cedroni.
* Andreios is a Greek warrior circa 480 BC, and was created in 1967 by Franco Oneta.
* Finally, Lightning Lam is a western graphic novel by Stelio Fenzo that originally appeared in 1968.