Shadowmen: Heroes and Villains of French Pulp Fiction

Meet Arsène Lupin the Gentleman Burglar and Fantômas the Lord of Evil; Captain Nemo and Robur the Conqueror; Alexandre Dumas? Count of Monte-Cristo and Cagliostro; the Phantom of the Opera and Belphegor, the Ghost of the Louvre; Monsieur Lecoq and Rouletabille, the first detectives; the gangs of the Black Coats and the Vampires; Rocambole, Judex, and the Nyctalope, the first super-heroes; Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes; Doctor Cornelius and Doctor Omega; Fascinax and the Sâr Dubnotal, investigators of the occult; Antinea, Queen of Atlantis and Eugene Sue's Mysteries of Paris!

Shadowmen book includes biographies of the authors, reviews of their major works, biographies of the characters, timelines and concordances, bibliographies and filmographies, including television, radio and comics, and an index.