Richard Bessiere made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF. In The Masters of Silence (1965), Engineer Milland has been summoned to a secret lab by Professor Watson, but when he arrives, Watson has just been murdered by his wife, Valerie, during what is said to be a fit of madness. Valerie had tested a machine to explore the Inner Mind invented by her husband. Milland volunteers to go into her mind-but, in so doing, may unleash creatures of darkness upon the Earth... In They Came from the Dark (1967), Ashby, just...