This eBook edition of "The Exploits of Juve" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The fearless Inspector Juve, aided by his sidekick Fandor the journalist, gets drawn into the Paris underworld by a series of mysterious crimes committed by a criminal gang that he believes is headed by Fantômas, believed to be dead by the rest of France. As he pursues the disparate clues and desperate characters involved, he finds himself again drawn into the orbit of his arch nemesis, the fiendish, shape-shifting Fantômas.

Fantomas returns to strike fear into the hearts of American readers with a new, even more vicious and mystifying series of crimes, and again comes up against his arch nemesis, Inspector Juve."

This eBook edition of "A Nest of Spies" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Europe is on the verge of The Great War and the Fantômas puts his evil genius in the service of Kaiser's Germany. A certain foreign power is engaged in Paris and Fantômas colludes with them, providing vital national and military secrets for Germany. Fearless detective Juve is, as always, one step behind.

This eBook edition of "Messengers of Evil" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A painter named Dollon gets arrested for a mysterious murder, but he is soon found dead in his cell. The corpse vanishes and his fingerprints turn up at a series of crime scenes. A young journalist and the sidekick of the famous detective Juve, Jérôme Fandor, gets involved into a spate of these terrible crimes and becomes increasingly convinced that they are linked by the agency of the terrible king of atrocity, Fantômas.

In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in this fascinating study. Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement. Pulp Surrealism presents four case studies, each exploring the out-of the-way and impertinent elements which inspired the surrealists. Walz discusses Louis Aragon's Le paysan de Paris, one of the great surrealist novels of Paris. He goes on to consider the popular series of Fantômes crime novels; the Parisan press coverage of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer Landru; and the surrealist inquiry "Is Suicide a Solution?", which Walz juxtaposes with reprints of actual suicide faits divers (sensationalist newspaper blurbs). Although surrealist interest in sensationalist popular culture eventually waned, this exploration of mass print culture as one of the cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of modernism itself.

Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.