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Fantomas: The Corpse Who Kills (Solar Research Archive #2)
Fantomas The Corpse Who Kills - Solar Research Archive #2 Author:Pierre Souvestre, Marcel Allain FANTOMAS 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. A master of disguise, the "unseiza... more »ble" Fantômas inhabits shadows; no-one knows his true identity or appearance. His penchant is for criminal atrocities and random acts of "beautiful-compulsive" violence, human 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.« less