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:
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.