3 Fantômas (Fantomas) books by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
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Overview: Marcel Allain (15 September 1885 – 25 August 1969) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.
The son of a Parisian bourgeois family, Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. He then became the assistant of Souvestre, who was already a well-known figure in literary circles. In 1909, the two men published their first novel, Le Rour. Investigating Magistrate Germain Fuselier, later to become a recurring character in the Fantômas series, appears in the novel.
Then, in February 1911, Allain and Souvestre embarked upon the Fantômas book series at the request of publisher Arthème Fayard, who wanted to create a new monthly pulp magazine. The success was immediate and lasting.
After Souvestre’s death in February 1914, Allain continued the Fantômas saga alone, then launched several other series, such as Tigris, Fatala, Miss Téria and Férocias, but none garnered the same popularity as Fantômas.
In 1926, Allain married Souvestre’s girl-friend, Henriette Kistler. In total, Allain wrote more than 400 novels in his prolific career.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Daughter of Fantomas by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, Randy Lofficier (Editor), Mark Steele (Translator)
Laetitia’s pale lips hissed a name that left her shivering and frightened, a name of horror, a name of blood, a name that seemed to invoke death.
“Fantômas! You’re Fantômas!”
“Quite right! I’m Fantômas! Didn’t I keep my word, Laetitia? Don’t they know me all over the world now?”
Was it really the elusive Fantômas, the criminal who had so easily avoided the most energetic efforts of some of the world’s best police forces? Laetitia, who thought she would die of terror, finally asked:
“What do you want?”
“I’ve come,” he said simply, “to reclaim my daughter!”
Fantômas rises from the grave (literally), having just escaped from the clutches of the Hangman of London, and leads his two nemeses, Policeman Juve and Journalist Fandor, on a wild chase that takes them from a plague-infested ocean liner to the deadly wastes of the South African Transvaal. Their goal: to rescue the only person the Lord of Terror truly loves: his daughter, the beautiful Hélène…
Never before translated, classic crime novel The Daughter of Fantômas, originally written in 1911, is adapted by Mark P. Steele who also adapted the Illuminatus! comics for Rip Off Press
“The opium-smoking, male-drag-donning, death’s-head-tattooed daughter of Fantômas, Hélène is a bad girl at least half a century ahead of her time.” Elliott Smith
The Death of Fantomas 1: The Hemp Necktie by Pierre Souvestre, Marcel Allain, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Introduction), Sheryl Curtis (Translator)
Despite everything, the water rose, the foam, the white foam flowed over to the feet of Juve and Fantômas… Yet the air, which finally found an outlet, flowed from the cabin in a bitter whistle…
“Let’s go!” stammered Fantômas. “It’s over…”
From the deadly streets of St. Petersburg to the Palaces of India, from the back alleys of Paris to the deck of the Titanic, this prodigious saga tells the story of the death of Fantômas, and of his arch-nemesis, Detective Juve.
Defying the Tsar’s secret police, Russian anarchists, Thuggee from India and Parasian Apaches, Juve, ably assisted by the intrepid journalist Jerôme Fandor, his beloved fiancée, Hélène, the alleged daughter of Fantômas, crisscross the world to finally meet their fate aboard a doomed ship in the North Atlantic.
The Death of Fantômas collects the final two volumes of the saga of the Lord of Terror (of which this is the first), initially released in 1913 and never translated before. The book also includes an introduction and a bibliography by Jean-Marc Lofficier.
The Death of Fantomas 2: The End of Fantomas by Pierre Souvestre, Marcel Allain, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Introduction), Sheryl Curtis (Translator)
Despite everything, the water rose, the foam, the white foam flowed over to the feet of Juve and Fantômas… Yet the air, which finally found an outlet, flowed from the cabin in a bitter whistle…
“Let’s go!” stammered Fantômas. “It’s over…”
From the deadly streets of St. Petersburg to the Palaces of India, from the back alleys of Paris to the deck of the Titanic, this prodigious saga tells the story of the death of Fantômas, and of his arch-nemesis, Detective Juve.
Defying the Tsar’s secret police, Russian anarchists, Thuggee from India and Parasian Apaches, Juve, ably assisted by the intrepid journalist Jerôme Fandor, his beloved fiancée, Hélène, the alleged daughter of Fantômas, crisscross the world to finally meet their fate aboard a doomed ship in the North Atlantic.
The Death of Fantômas collects the final two volumes of the saga of the Lord of Terror (of which this is the second), initially released in 1913 and never translated before. The book also includes an introduction, a timeline and a bibliography by Jean-Marc Lofficier.
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