Meet Dr. Marc Vanel, son of a scientist and a beautiful exotic spy, polymath, engineer, gifted wi...
British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than...
Maurice Leblanc's classic 1909 thriller pits France's Gentleman Burglar against England's Great D...
In the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, there are two graves. Each is covered by a black ston...
Twenty years before Peary, a French scientific expedition to the North Pole becomes stranded in t...
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Louis Boussenard's two most memorable novels were The Secrets of Monsieur Synthesis (1888) and it...
The mysterious Lord Ruthwen travels to Venice and strikes again, killing the beautiful Bettina an...
The Year 5865 was published in 1865. It is a remarkable novel, consisting of a first-person narra...
How hard could it be to choose 55 favorites pieces from the art I've done in my life so far? When...
In 1675, a female vampire possessing the secret of immortality was burned alive. Forty-five years...
S. Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) was a writer of considerable ability, remembered today mostly for h...