Tales of the Shadowmen 1: The Modern Babylon

by Jean-Marc Lofficier

  Jean-Claude Carrière

  Arthur Bernède &

  Louis Feuillade

  Georges Simenon

  Georges Simenon

  Gustave Le Rouge

  Gustave Le Rouge

  Seabury Quinn

  Written by:

  Matthew BAUGH is a 43-year-old ordained minister who lives and works in Sedona, Arizona, with his wife Mary and two cats. He is a longtime fan of pulp fiction, cliffhanger serials, old time radio, and is the proud owner of the silent Judex serial on DVD. He has written a number of articles on lesser known pop-culture characters like Dr. Syn, Jules de Grandin, and Sailor Steve Costigan for the Wold-Newton Universe Internet website. His article on Zorro will appear in Myths for the Modern Age. Mask of the Monster is his first published story.

  Cadavres Exquis

  Starring:

  Fascinax

  Numa Pergyll

  Jules de Grandin

  Franz Krypfer

  Created by:

  Anonymous

  Anonymous

  Seabury Quinn

  Anonymous

  Written by:

  Bill CUNNINGHAM is a pulp screenwriter-producer specializing in the Direct-to-DVD market. His credits include Scarecrow, Scarecrow Slayer and .Com for Murder. An authority and lecturer on D2DVD movies and marketing with over a decade of experience, he knew that somehow he would become a writer when he saw his creation, The Pixie, accepted into DC Comics’ Dial H for Hero series (Adventure Comics No. 488) right out of high school. When he is not drinking coffee to excess, Bill is not so secretly hatching plans for a multimedia empire out of his Hollywood, CA kitchen, haunting used book and punk rock stores, and researching the exploitation cinema of Hollywood’s poverty row urban legend, Titan Studios.

  When Lemmy Met Jules

  Starring:

  Lemmy Caution

  Jules Maigret

  Created by:

  Peter Cheyney

  Georges Simenon

  Written by:

  Terrance DICKS managed to escape the world of advertising to build a distinguished career as a writer, then a producer, for the BBC where he masterminded Doctor Who from 1968 to 1974, and later produced a variety of classic series such as Oliver Twist (1985), David Copperfield (1986), Brat Farrar (1986) and Vanity Fair (1987), amongst others. His being asked to pen early Doctor Who novels–an activity which he continues to this day–led him to become a popular author of numerous Young Adult and Children’s Books, including The Baker Street Irregulars, Ask Oliver, T.R. Bear, etc. Terrance has also penned two Doctor Who stageplays and scripted episodes of The Avengers (1961), Moonbase 3 (1973) and Space: 1999 (1975).

  The Vanishing Devil

  Starring:

  Doctor Francis Ardan

  Louise Ducharme

  Sherlock Holmes

  Roger Gunn

  Jules Maigret

  Doctor Natas

  Pao Tcheou

  Dr. Caresco

  Created by:

  Guy d’Armen, Lester Dent

  Guy d’Armen

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  J.T. Edson

  Georges Simenon

  Guy d’Armen, Sax Rohmer

  Edward Brooker

  André Couvreur

  Written by:

  Win Scott ECKERT graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology and thereafter received his Juris Doctorate, enabling him to practice law. In 1997, he posted the first site on the Internet devoted to expanding Philip José Farmer’s original premise of a Wold Newton Family to encompass a whole Wold Newton Universe. He is the editor of and a contributor to Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe, forthcoming from MonkeyBrain Books in 2005. Win lives near Denver with his family and four felines, in a house crammed to the rafters with books, comic books and Star Trek action figures.

  The Three Jewish Horsemen

  Starring:

  Lord Baskerville

  Josephine Balsamo

  Erik

  Arsène Lupin (Jim Barnett)

  Bechoux

  Victoire

  Created by:

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Maurice Leblanc

  Gaston Leroux

  Maurice Leblanc

  Maurice Leblanc

  Maurice Leblanc

  Written by:

  Viviane ETRIVERT learned to read in the novels of Jules Verne and the adventures of Arsène Lupin. She is the author of two novels, Les Mondes du Trickster (The Trickster’s Worlds, 2001) and La Morrigan (2004). She has also written numerous fantasy and crime short short stories, the latter featuring a 1930s French Police Commissioner named Commissaire Cles. Viviane is married, has three sons and works as a jurist specialized in European Union Law at the Prefecture of Montpellier, where her story takes place.

  The Werewolf of Rutherford Grange

  Starring:

  Harry Dickson

  Sexton Blake

  The Westenras

  The Rutherfords

  John Roxton

  Gianetti Annunciata

  Sâr Dubnotal

  Created by:

  Anonymous

  Harry Blyth

  Bram Stoker

  Philip José Farmer

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Anonymous

  Anonymous

  Written by:

  G.L. GICK lives in Indiana and has been a pulp fan since he first picked up a Doc Savage paperback. His other interests include old-time radio, Golden and Silver Age comics, cryptozoology, classic animation, British SF TV and C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. He is, in other words, a nerd and damn proud of it. This is his first professional sale.

  The Last Vendetta

  Starring:

  Arthur Gordon

  Ignacz Djanko

  Josephine Balsamo

  Loco (a.k.a. Aguirre)

  Leonard

  Hong Chen

  Huan Tsung Chao

  Oliver Haddo

  Count Bielowsky

  Mr. Washburn

  Satanas

  Clyde (a.k.a. Nine Fingers)

  Yolaf Peterson

  Created by:

  Emile Gaboriau

  Sergio Corbucci

  & Bruno Corbucci

  Maurice Leblanc

  Sergio Corbucci

  & Mario Amendola

  Maurice Leblanc

  Guy d’Armen

  Sax Rohmer

  Somerset Maugham

  Pierre Benoit

  Lowell Ganz &

  Babaloo Mandel

  Louis Feuillade

  Gianfranco Parolini &

  Renato Izzo

  Sergio Corbucci &

  Massimo de Rita

  Written by:

  Rick LAI is a computer programmer living in Bethpage, New York. During the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote articles utilizing Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe concepts for pulp magazine fanzines such as Nemesis Inc, Echoes, Golden Perils, Pulp Vault and Pulp Collector. Rick has also created chronologies of such heroes as Doc Savage and the Shadow. Several of these articles and chronologies have recently been revised and made available on Win Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe website. Rick is also a collector of the works of French detective writers such as Emile Gaboriau, Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc. He has recently developed an interest in Spaghetti Westerns and Kung Fu movies, as shown in The Last Vendetta, his first short story.

  The Sainte-Geneviève Caper

  Starring:

  Arsène Lupin

  Sherlock Holmes

  Ganimard

  Also Starring:

  Lord Dunsany

  Created by:

  Maurice Leblanc

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Maurice Leblanc

  Written by:

  Alain le BUSSY hails from Belgium and studied political and social sciences, before working in human resources for the European division of Caterpillar. Bitten with the fantasy bug as a child, Alain became involved in fandom at a
n early age and attended the Heidelberg Worldcon in 1970. A prolific writer, Alain has had over 25 novels and 200 short stories published. In 1993, his novel, Deltas, the first volume of The Aqualia Trilogy, won the Rosny Award, the French equivalent of the Hugo. Other significant works include the heroic-fantasy saga of Yorg (1995) and Equilibre (Balance, 1997), the story of a waterworld which is the sole meeting point between mankind and an alien reptilian race.

  Journey to the Center of Chaos

  Starring:

  Alexander Whateley

  JimGrim (a.k.a. John Green)

  Dahoor

  Robur

  Sâr Dubnotal

  Tom Turner

  The Yian-Hos

  Yog-Sothoth

  Created by:

  H.P. Lovecraft

  Talbot Mundy

  Guy d’Armen

  Jules Verne

  Anonymous

  Jules Verne

  Helena Blavatsky

  H.P. Lovecraft

  Written by:

  Jean-Marc & Randy LOFFICIER, the authors of the Shadowmen non-fiction series, have also collaborated on five screenplays, a dozen books and numerous comic books and translations, including Arsène Lupin, Doc Ardan, Doctor Omega and The Phantom of the Opera, all published by Black Coat Press. They have written a number of animation teleplays, including episodes of Duck Tales and The Real Ghostbusters and such popular comic book heroes as Superman and Doctor Strange. In 1999, in recognition of their distinguished career as comic book writers, editors and translators, they were presented with the Inkpot award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts. Randy is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West and Mystery Writers of America.

  Lacunal Visions

  Starring:

  C. Auguste Dupin

  Sergeant Picard

  Maître Zacharius

  Doctor Omega

  Created by:

  Edgar Allan Poe

  William Kotzwinkle

  Jules Verne

  Arnould Galopin

  Written by:

  Samuel T. PAYNE was born on the Channel Island of Jersey, in 1982. Throughout the 1990s, he contributed a number of articles for student magazines and literary periodicals before graduating in English Literature in Leeds, North England, in 2004. Aside from writing, he enjoys playing bass guitar, painting and modelwork. His latest modelwork, in the form of a Dalek, can be seen on the covers of the Dalek Empire audio CDs. He is currently writing an original Doctor Omega novel based on C.I. Defontenay’s classic epic, Star, or Psi Cassiopeia, both scheduled to be released by Black Coat Press in late 2005.

  The Kind-Hearted Torturer

  Starring:

  C. Auguste Dupin

  Comte de Monte-Cristo

  Comtesse de Clare

  Valentine Morrel

  Haydée

  Created by:

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Alexandre Dumas

  Paul Féval

  Alexandre Dumas

  Alexandre Dumas

  Written by:

  John PEEL was born in Nottingham, England, and moved to the U.S. in 1981 to marry. He, his wife Nan (“Mrs. Peel”) and their 13 dogs live on Long Island, New York. He has written just over 100 books to date, mostly for young adults. He is the only author to have written novels based on both Doctor Who and Star Trek. His most popular work is Diadem, a fantasy series of which he’s currently writing the ninth volume.

  Penumbra

  Starring:

  Philippe Guerande

  Les Vampires

  Favraux

  Judex (a.k.a. Vallières)

  The Waynes

  Kent Allard

  Created by:

  Louis Feuillade

  Louis Feuillade

  Arthur Bernède &

  Louis Feuillade

  Arthur Bernède &

  Louis Feuillade

  Bob Kane & Bill Finger

  Walter Gibson

  Written by:

  Chris ROBERSON is a writer, editor and publisher. His novels include the forthcoming Here, There & Everywhere, The Shark Boy and Lava Girl Adventures with Robert Rodriguez, The Voyage of Night Shining White and Paragaea: A Planetary Romance. His story “O One,” which appeared in Live Without A Net (2003), won the 2003 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History, was listed as an Honorable Mention in The 21st Annual Year's Best Science Fiction and was short-listed for the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. In 2003, Roberson and his business partner and spouse, Allison Baker, launched the independent press MonkeyBrain Books, an imprint specializing in nonfiction genre studies. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, their daughter and his library.

  The Paris-Ganymede Clock

  Starring:

  Arthur Wimsey

  Melville Fairr

  Fantômas

  Robin Muscat

  Mrs. Rosenberg

  Created by:

  Dorothy Sayers

  Craig Rice

  Marcel Allain &

  Pierre Souvestre

  Maurice Limat

  Joss Whedon

  Written by:

  Robert SHECKLEY was born in Brooklyn. A veteran science fiction writer, he began to sell stories to science-fiction magazines such as Galaxy soon after his graduation. During this time, he also wrote 15 episodes of Captain Video. His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958) was produced as the movie Freejack (1992). He also wrote the story which was the basis for the movie The Tenth Victim (1965). Robert has, to date, produced about 65 books, including 40 novels and nine story collections. His best-known works are Mindswap (1966) and Dimension of Miracles (1968). He has also written a fantasy trilogy in collaboration with Roger Zelazny and a humorous private detective series starring private eye Hob Draconian. Recently, Robert worked on the computer game Netrunner.

  The Titan Unwrecked; Or, Futility Revisited

  Starring:

  Allan Quatermain (a.k.a. Jean Ténèbre)

  Ayesha (a.k.a. Ange Ténèbre)

  Dracula (a.k.a. Lugard)

  Edward Rocambole

  Captain John Rowland

  Captain Black

  Also Starring:

  The Writers:

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Robert W. Chambers

  Paul Féval, Fils

  William Ernest Henley

  James Huneker

  Alfred Jarry

  Vernon Lee

  Jean Lorrain

  Morgan Robertson

  Mark Twain

  Sutton Vane

  and

  William Hope Hodgson

  The Captains of Industry:

  Duke of Buccleuch

  Andrew Carnegie

  Thomas Alva Edison

  William Randolph Hearst

  John D. Rockefeller

  and

  Lillie Langtry

  Created by:

  H. Rider Haggard,

  Paul Féval

  H. Rider Haggard,

  Paul Féval

  Bram Stoker

  Ponson du Terrail,

  Frédéric Valade

  Morgan Robertson

  Max Pemberton

  Written by:

  Brian M. STABLEFORD has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 50 novels and 200 short stories, as well as several non-fiction books, thousands of articles for periodicals and reference books and a number of anthologies. He is also a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at King Alfred’s College Winchester. Brian’s noverls include The Empire of Fear (1988), Young Blood (1992) and his future history series comprising Inherit the Earth (1998), Architects of Emortality (1999), The Fountains of Youth (2000), The Cassandra Complex (2001), Dark Ararat (2002) and The Omega Expedition (2002). His non-fiction includes Scientific Romance in Britain (1985), Teach Yourself Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (1997), Yesterday's Bestsellers (1998) and Glorious Perversity: The Decline and Fall of Literary Decadence (1998). Brian’s translations for Black Coat Press i
nclude Paul Féval’s Knightshade, Vampire City, The Vampire Countess, John Devil, The Wandering Jew’s Daughter and the forthcoming The Black Coats: ’Salem Street.

  IN THE SAME COLLECTION

  Volume 1: The Modern Babylon (2004)

  Matthew Baugh, Bill Cunningham, Terrance Dicks, Win Scott Eckert, Viviane Etrivert, G.L. Gick, Rick Lai, Alain le Bussy, J.-M. & Randy Lofficier, Samuel T. Payne, John Peel, Chris Roberson, Robert Sheckley, Brian Stableford.

  Volume 2: Gentlemen of the Night (2005)

  Matthew Baugh, Bill Cunningham, Win Scott Eckert, G.L. Gick, Rick Lai, Serge Lehman, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Xavier Mauméjean, Sylvie Miller, Jess Nevins, Kim Newman, John Peel, Chris Roberson, Brian Stableford, Jean-Louis Trudel, Philippe Ward.

  Volume 3: Danse Macabre (2006)

  Joseph Altairac, Matthew Baugh, Alfredo Castelli, Bill Cunningham, François Darnaudet, Paul DiFilippo, Win Scott Eckert, G.L. Gick, Micah Harris, Travis Hiltz, Rick Lai, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Xavier Mauméjean, David A. McIntee, Brad Mengel, Michael Moorcock, John Peel, Jean-Luc Rivera, Chris Roberson, Robert L. Robinson, Jr., Brian Stableford.

  Volume 4: Lords of Terror (2007)

  Matthew Baugh, Bill Cunningham, Win Scott Eckert, Micah Harris, Travis Hiltz, Rick Lai, Roman Leary, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, Xavier Mauméjean, Jess Nevins, Kim Newman, John Peel, Steven A. Roman, John Shirley, Brian Stableford.

  Volume 5: The Vampires of Paris (2008)

  Matthew Baugh, Michelle Bigot, Christopher Paul Carey, Win Scott Eckert, G.L. Gick, Micah Harris, Tom Kane, Lovern Kindzierski, Rick Lai, Roman Leary, Alain le Bussy, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, Xavier Mauméjean, Jess Nevins, John Peel, Frank Schildiner, Stuart Shiffman, Brian Stableford, David L. Vineyard.