![]() ![]() ![]() The third in the Fantomas series and the third I've read this installment struck me as more polished than the first two, and structured more like a classic mystery, with clues scattered throughout and murders and unseen villains always one step ahead of the investigators, then climaxing in a grand finale of revelation. This new edition includes an illustrated introduction on Fantômas and the Surrealists.įrom the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is on fo the richest works that esist - Guillaume Apollinaire ![]() 1911), the third and perhaps most inventive in this astonishing series, was acclaimed by the Surrealists for its dream-like imagery, wanton cruelty, and gallows-black humour. Fantômas loves criminal atrocities and random acts of "beautiful-compulsive" violence, carnage on a mass scale, outrageous theft, arson and destruction, virtuoso displays of terrorism and chaos compounded by the brutality of the Paris street-gangs under his command.įANTÔMAS: THE CORPSE WHO kills ( Le Mort Qui Tue. FANTÔMAS is the Emperor of Crime, the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the nihilistic anti-hero of a series of sublime pulps, books brimming with motifs of the "marvellous": nuns, coffins, severed hands, daggers, masks, bells that bleed, corpses, poison flowers, gloves of human skin, lunatics and labyrinths. ![]()
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