Astronaut Nick Thaler lands on Mars and inadvertently frees a powerful alien who was imprisoned there. The alien possesses his body, and once Nick is back on Earth, the stranded starlock seeks to return to his home world by all means possible, endangering Earth's fragile balance of power.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first and most dramatic locked room mysteries ever published. It is the first novel starring the young crime-solving journalist Rouletabille and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal seems to disappear from a hermetically sealed room. John Dickson Carr proclaimed The...

When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, threatening the good and the helpless, Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the Darkness from whence they came.

This sixth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy. Tremble as you face the terror of Fantomas, the villainy of Madame Atomos, the sorcery of Leonox, the unspeakable King in Yellow and the insanity of Alphaville Fortunately for us, and for the world, there are always stalwart heroes rising up to stem the tides of darkness and restore peace and order to the world. Chevalier Dupin Harry Dickson Mowgli Arsene Lupin The Scarlet Pimpernel Raffles and mamy more are there, to confront crazy sorcerers and ravening zombies, mad scientists and...

The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside. The walls between the worlds of fiction crumble and fantasies become reality.

At long last, Arsene Lupin's greatest epic battle is presented in English in a single omnibus volume. Countess Cagliostro (1924) marks the first great adventure of a 20-year-old Lupin, pitting him against the beautiful but deadly Countess Cagliostro, in an attempt to find the treasure of the Candlestick with Seven Branches. It is presented here for the first time in a new, unabridged translation. The 1935 novel Countess Cagliostro's Revenge, never before translated, tells of the lethal Countess's revenge upon a 50-year-old Lupin. The book also includes The Queen's Necklace, a short story...

Driant, a famous French military strategist and politician, died heroically before Verdun during World War I. Like a 19th-century Tom Clancy, Driant also wrote a number of very popular "techno-thrillers." In "Undersea Odyssey" (1908), Driant tackles the use of the modern 200-ton submarines which had just been introduced in the French Navy a few years earlier.

"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.

The mysterious traveler through the aether known only as Doctor Omega was created by Arnould Galopin in 1906 in his eponymous novel, first published into English by Black Coat Press in 2003. Since then, many talented authors have created new adventures for him. This collection presents seventeen new Doctor Omega stories, seven of which never published before. Follow the enigmatic Doctor from the Wild, Wild West to the Vampire City, from Hollywood to Metropolis and beyond, as he encounters a host of other heroes and villains such as Sar Dubnotal, Nosferatu, Professor Moriarty, Jirel of Joiry,...

The international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world's most fantastic heroes and villains returns in this eighth installment. This time, the stories focus on those who provoke or entice evil... Agents Provocateurs who thrive in the shadows and lurk on the periphery of our world... Gathered here in an all-new collection of amazing adventures are the terrifying Creature of Frankenstein and the monstrous Phantom of the Opera, the awesome Dracula and the Vampire Countess, the otherworldly Body Snatchers and the dead Necromancer of Averoigne, the deadly Madame Atomos and the merciless...