11 books by Jean de La Hire, Jean-Marc Lofficier
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Overview: Jean de La Hire (pseudonym of the Comte Adolphe d’Espie) (28 January 1878 – 5 September 1956) was a prolific French author of numerous popular adventure, science fiction and romance novels.
Adolphe d’Espie was born on 28 January 1878 in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales. He was a scion of an old French noble family dating back the reign of Saint Louis, which gave the ancient city of Toulouse a Capitoul during the Middle Ages. He was a soldier during World War I. He died during 1956 at Nice as a result of a congestion of the lungs due to chronic pulmonary problems from having been gassed during that war.
At the age of twenty, the only son of the last Comte d’Espie chose the pseudonym "Jean de la Hire", clearly indicating the admiration he dedicated to La Hire, legendary comrade of Joan of Arc, claiming to be his descendant. As numerous young ambitious provinciaux eagerly wanting literary fame and fortune, he migrated to Paris with the support of his uncle, the then already famous sculptor Aristide Maillol. But his debuts were not very successful and, after he was not awarded the Prix Goncourt, he abandoned classic literature and decided to author more popular novels of the roman populaire genre.
During his lifetime, he authored more than 300 novels and short-stories, some published with more than 100,000 issues, the most popular being his super-science works – and among them the Nyctalope series. Most of them – mainly in the dime novel style: detective novels, adventures, romances, western stories, etc. – were published as series in popular newspapers, magazines and quarterlies.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
The Fiery Wheel by Brian Stableford (Translator, Adapter), Jean de La Hire
In 1908, Jean de La Hire, the creator of The Nyctalope, penned The Fiery Wheel, a classic space opera in which five Earthmen are abducted in the eponymous spacecraft by aliens from Saturn, and taken to Venus and Mercury where they encounter strange lifeforms, before returning to Earth through mind transfer. The Fiery Wheel is the first work of fiction to feature the theme of "alien abduction," all the more remarkable because such abductions are achieved by means of a vehicle resembling the "flying disks" or "flying saucers" later credited with this phenomena.
Enter the Nyctalope (The Nyctalope #10) by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
A mysterious criminal mastermind shoots Engineer Pierre Saint-Clair and steals his plans for a revolutionary invention. His son, Leo, and a band of young adventurers, pursue the villains, a gang of international anarchists, to Switzerland, where he is captured and murdered. But like a phoenix, he rises from the dead, having gained the power to see in the dark, and sporting a heart made of metal and rubber, powered by electro-magnets. 20-year-old Leo Saint-Clair has now become-the superheroic Nyctalope! Enter the Nyctalope, written in 1933, is the origin story of the greatest of all French pulp heroes, created in 1911 by prolific writer Jean de La Hire. It is presented here with three additional short stories also featuring the Nyctalope.
Night of the Nyctalope by Jean de La Hire, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Editor), Randy Lofficier (Editor)
Night of the Nyctalope is a collection of 17 stories featuring Leo Saint-Clair, France’s premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare original tale published in 1944 by the character’s creator, Jean de La Hire, in which Leo saves a young woman from the clutches of an evil sorcerer in Occupied Paris. Sixteen other stories, all written especially for this volume, offer more exciting adventures spanning over a century, from Leo’s first exploits against dark mystic powers in 1900 Paris, his adventures as an explorer in darkest Africa before WWI, his secret missions on Earth and on Mars during the Great War, his encounter with Dracula before the Fall of Berlin, to his very recent visit at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Contents:
- Introduction by Jean-Marc Lofficier
Jean de La Hire: Night of the Nyctalope [Rien qu’une Nuit] (1944)
Travis Hiltz: First Steps (1900)
Matthew Dennion: The Angel and the Exorcist (1906)
Matthew Dennion: Dangerous Territory (1909)
Martin Gately: Dam Busters of Mars (1911)
Chris Nigro: Justice and Power (1917)
David McDonald: The Girl from Odessa (1919)
Emmanuel Gorlier: Una Voce Poco Fa (1936)
Philippe Ward: The Hour of the Grail (1936)
Julien Heylbroeck: Blood and Weapons (1938) (translated by Matthew Baugh)
Matthew Dennion: The Road Not Taken (1942)
Chris Nigro: Requiem for a Regime (1945)
Travis Hiltz: Showdown at Steam Town (1949)
Emmanuel Gorlier: Madison Square Garden (1949)
Roman Leary : The Devil You Know (1950)
Emmanuel Gorlier: The Algerian Dilemma (1959)
Jean-Marc Lofficier : The Ides of Mars (2012)
Credits
The Nyctalope and the Tower of Babel by Jean de La Hire, Emmanuel Gorlier, Michael Shreve (Translator), Jessica Sequeira (Translator)
This book includes The Cross of Blood, an original novel by Jean de La Hire , translated here for the first time, and an all-new sequel, The Tower of Babel, written especially for this edition by Emmanuel Gorlier. In The Cross of Blood, a friend of the Nyctalope, Jacques d’Hermont, calls for his help because he and his family are slowly dying from of a mysterious disease. Leo investigates and discovers a new, deadly foe: Armand Logreux d’Albury, the so-called “Master of the Seven Lights,” lurking in the Castle of the Cross of Blood. In The Tower of Babel, which takes place six years later, the Nyctalope crosses paths again with Logreux d’Albury and another of his arch-enemies, Engineer Korridès, while his son, Pierre, is on a perilous expedition in Africa searching for the legendary Tower of Babel…
The Nyctalope on Mars 1: The Mystery of the Fifteen by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In the first part of The Nyctalope on Mars (1911), Leo faces the megalomaniacal Oxus, master of the secret society of the Fifteen, who is plotting to conquer Earth from his secret base on Mars. The Nyctalope on Mars predicted the course that popular fiction was to follow in the next 50 years. Brian Stableford.
The Nyctalope on Mars 2: The Triumph of Love by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In the second part of The Nyctalope on Mars (1911), after defeating the Fifteen, the Nyctalope must then face an ever more fearsome foe: H. G. Wells’ Martians. The Nyctalope on Mars predicted the course that popular fiction was to follow in the next 50 years. Brian Stableford.
The Nyctalope Steps in (The Nyctalope #15) by Jean de La Hire, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Editor), Randy Lofficier (Editor)
The Nyctalope Steps In is a collection of 15 stories featuring France’s premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare tale serialized in a regional newspaper in 1942, the last story ever written by the character’s creator, Jean de La Hire, in which his hero comes to terms with France’s occupation by the Nazis. Fourteen other stories, eight of which were especially written for this volume, offer more exciting adventures from the Nyctalope’s secret origins, lost in the mists of time, to his excursions into the future, from the blood-drenched trenches of World War I to the far-off planet Mars. Also included in this book is a complete Nyctalope chronology by Emmanuel Gorlier.
Contents:
- Introduction by Jean-Marc Lofficier
Jean de La Hire: The Nyctalope Steps In [L’ Enfant Perdu] (1942)
Emmanuel Gorlier: Fiat Lux! (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°7)
Emmanuel Gorlier: The Three Sisters (new)
Julien Heylbroeck: The Season of the Shark (new)
Emmanuel Gorlier: The Lesson of Captain Danrit (new)
Matthew Dennion: The Hunters of Mars (new)
Roman Leary: The Children of Heracles (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°6)
Randy Lofficier: The English Gentleman’s Ball (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°5)
Paul Hugli: Death to the Heretic! (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°7)
Stuart Shiffman: The Nyctalope’s New York Adventure (new)
Emmanuel Gorlier: A Present for Hitler (new)
Emmanuel Gorlier: Twilight (new)
Roman Leary: A Moment of Perfect Happiness (new)
David L. Vineyard: The Mysterious Island of Dr. Antekirtt (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°7)
Emmanuel Gorlier: Out of Time (Previously published in Tales of the Shadowmen N°6)
The Nyctalope Chronology by Emmanuel Gorlier (new)
Bibliography
Credits and Sources
The Nyctalope vs Lucifer 1: Enter Lucifer! by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In the first part of The Nyctalope vs Lucifer trilogy (1921), the Nyctalope faces Baron Glô von Warteck, a.k.a. Lucifer, who uses his evil mind powers to blackmail the leaders of the Europe and plots to rule the world from his castle of Schwarzrock in the Black Forest. Just as Captain America, is the incarnation of the Stars and Stripes, the Nyctalope, stood for the ideals of Colonial France between two world wars. Jean-Marc Lofficier.
The Nyctalope vs Lucifer 2: Drama in the Bermudas by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In the second part of The Nyctalope vs Lucifer trilogy (1921), the Nyctalope’s battle against faces Baron Glô von Warteck, a.k.a. Lucifer, moves to villain’s underwater city in the Bermudas. Just as Captain America, is the incarnation of the Stars and Stripes, the Nyctalope, stood for the ideals of Colonial France between two world wars. Jean-Marc Lofficier.
The Nyctalope vs Lucifer 3: The Triumph of the Nyctalope by Jean de La Hire, Brian Stableford (Translator)
Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In the third part of The Nyctalope vs Lucifer trilogy (1921), the Nyctalope finally confronts Baron Glô von Warteck, a.k.a. Lucifer, whose hypnotic powers, amplified by his "teledynamo," threatens to enslave the world. Also included in this book is a complete Nyctalope chronology by Jean-Marc Lofficier.
Return of the Nyctalope by Brian Stableford (Adapted by, Translator), Jean de La Hire, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier
In Jean de La Hire’s original 1943 novel, The King of the Night, translated by Brian Stableford, the Nyctalope travels to Rhea, a wandering planetoid inhabited by two warring races of ape-men and bat-men, and forces the two species to make peace. In its all-new sequel, Return of the Nyctalope, by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, the Nyctalope returns to Rhea as it is about to leave the Solar System, and comes to grips with his own past while charting out a bold map for the future of Humanity. Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France’s most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair was a fearless hero who battled a gallery of colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by other pulp and comic-book heroes, and continue today in new stories, of which this is the most recent.
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