The Specter of Fantômas
THE SPECTER OF FANTOMAS
edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier
cover by Mike Shoyket
US$22.95 - 5x8 tpb, 308 p. - ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-479-5
The Tales of the Shadowmen series aimed at raising awareness of the founding heroes and villains of popular French fiction: journalists, adventurers, detectives, magicians, mad scientists, monsters, superheroes, and super-villains.
This volume offers a selection of tales featuring Fantômas, the fearsome criminal created in 1911 by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. In the seventeen short stories reprinted in this collection, Fantômas celebrates Christmas, discovers the mysteries of the Tarot, and crosses paths with Irma Vep, Diabolik, Kriminal, Harry Dickson, and many bore… But is he still the One and Only Lord of Terror? Isn't the Parisian underworld shouting: “Fantômas is dead… Long live Fantômas!”
IIntroduction.
Frank Schildiner: The Specter of Fantômas.
Frank Schildiner: Only One…...
Frank Schildiner: The Emperor of Crime.
Frank Schildiner: No Child of Mine.
Travis Hiltz: A Dance of Night and Death.
William P. Maynard: Yes, Virginia, There is a Fantômas.
Alfredo Castelli: Long Live Fantômas.
Rick Lai: Incident in the Boer War.
Jean-Marc Lofficier: The Sincerest Form of Flattery.
Nathan Cabaniss: From Paris with Hate.
Nathan Cabaniss: Rage of Terror.
Michel Stéphan: The White Lady of Pourville.
Joseph Gibson: The Other Vampires of Paris.
Rod McFadyen: The World Will Belong To Me.
Bill Cunningham: The Midnight Train to Paris.
Nathan Cabaniss: Get Fantômas.
Jean-Marc Lofficier: The Tarot of Fantômas.
Credits and Sources.