Belphegor, the Phantom of the Louvre

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bernede, Arthur

Mystery

Hollywood Comics

In 1918, silent film director Louis Feuillade and writer Arthur Bernède resurrected one of their greatest characters for a second adventure: a mysterious avenger, wearing a slouch hat and a dark cloak -- Judex! His name means "Judge," and he has sworn to mercilessly punish criminals. On the eve of World War I, the Paris underworld is dominated by the Secret Raiders, a vicious gang of spies and extortionists. Their leader is a one-eyed mystic who meticulously records all the crimes that he intends to commit in the future. This mastermind has hypnotic powers that allow him to telepathically force honest citizens to commit crimes. Assisting this diabolical mesmerist is a seductive baroness. Besides being an expert cat burglar, she is also a superb pugilist capable of beating a man to a pulp. Only one man can stop these criminals: the shadowy vigilante known as Judex! However, the Secret Raiders discover that Judex is really the wealthy Jacques de Trémeuse. They strike at him through his family! Worse yet, Judex finds his efforts to protect his loved ones constantly sabotaged by the incompetence of one of his own agents! Read an exciting adventure that foreshadowed Fritz Lang's classic film trilogy about Dr. Mabuse.

The Return of Judex

Feuillade, Louis

The success of the pulp mystery series Fantá´mas, launched in 1909, inspired many successors including Arnould Galopin's Tenebras (1911), Gaston René's Masque Rouge (1913), and Arthur Bernède's Judex (1917), co-created with film director Louis Feuillade. In 1927, Bernède produced another simultaneous book and film project ― Belphegor. Belphegor concerns its eponymous criminal mastermind, a hooded maniac whose name derives from a malefic demon, and who is obsessed with retrieving the lost treasure of the Medicis from its ancient burial-place. Only Chantecoq, the "king of detectives", aided by a news reporter and his own daughter, can hope to unveil the sinister and sadistic figure that nightly haunts the Paris Louvre and its catacombs with a hunchbacked henchman, the pair dealing death, panic and confusion to any that stand in their way. And with that unveiling comes one of the most stunning twists in the genre to that date. Belphegor was also made into a highly successful 1960s serial for French televison, and a feature film entitled The Curse Of Belphegor. More recently it was filmed as Belphegor, Phantom Of The Louvre (2001), which also generated an animated television series. It remains one of the key works of early French pulp fiction.

Belphegor: The Phantom of the Louvre (Creation Oneiros Scorpionic)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CREATION ONEIROS

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