(Summary by Alan Winterrowd)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Part police procedural, part gothic horror story, part. The novels were also the basis for five film serials produced in 19. 1h 34m IMDb RATING 6.5 /10 60 YOUR RATING Rate Horror Thriller Mystery The Magic Scaffold - Inspector Juve is scorned for his belief that a criminal, Fantômas, is the offender in a series of murders and thefts. Literally: the first appeared in February 1911, the second in March of that year, the third in April, and so on, until September 1913. In Fantômas, the Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered and Inspector Juve, who is obsessed with capturing Fantômas, arrives to solve the murder. There were four series of Fantomas novels, but the most famous series (and best, according to most critics) was the first, 32 novels by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain published monthly in Paris from February 1911 to September 1913. The titles are as macabre as the masked madman that appears in them. The character and the movies caught the eye of the French Surrealists who admired the primal violence of Fantômas, as well as his portrayal in the films, which are considered landmarks in French Cinema.

edition, 1915) Fantomas attaque Fandor (1926) Fantomas en danger (Fantomas. The first five novels were made into silent film serials. Works (English titles are of known translated editions) Fantomas (1911 U.S. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin.

Read by Alan Winterrowd.įantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.

LibriVox recording of Fantômas, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.

Fantomas 1911