Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre

Tales of the Shadowmen #3

by Jean-Marc Lofficier (Editor), Randy Lofficier, Travis Hiltz

Fantômas is dead, long live Fantômas! Doctor Omega and Captain Kronos challenge the might of the Vampire City! The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants! King Kong falls in love for the first time! Hercule Poirot stalks a Murderer from Beyond! The Sûreté du Temps Perdu faces the Vampires and the Cat Women of the Moon invade the 20th Century-but which 20th Century? And also Fu-Manchu, Judex, Maciste, the Black Coats, Biggles, John Devil, Barbarella and many more! Welcome once again to our merry-go-round of heroes and villains of popular literature, the danse macabre of of the Shadowmen.

296 pages, Paperback

First published November 22, 2006

About the author

Jean-Marc Lofficier is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife, Randy Lofficier

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are a fan of Victorian detectives and adventurers or Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, than these anthologies are for you.

A wild variety of short stories, all with the common theme of featuring team ups between various Victorian/pulp characters with an emphasis on French heroes, PIS, villains and monsters.
Like any anthology there is a mix of so-so and brilliant stories, and the brilliant ones make you forgive the so-so ones.

'Two Hunters' and 'A day in the life of Madam Atomos' were a couple of my favorites.

and I would have given this volume a 4 star rating even if it didn't contain a short story I wrote.

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Superb stories, with real leaps of imagination likes of which are avoided by authors nowadays like a plague. Recommended.