Böcker av Kurt Steiner

THE SHORES OF NIGHT : A cursed book said to have been written by Cagliostro drags an English journalist and his fiancée into an endless nightmare... THE VILLAGE OF LEPERS : From the lake covering a small submerged Italian village emerge the leprous specters of a past era..."Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished film writers.

MORTEFONTAINEIn a mist-shrouded, lonely castle, Michel falls in love with Cécile, a beautiful woman who seems to belong to another world...THE THRESHOLD OF THE VOIDWanda, a young artist who's just arrived in Paris, finds an apartment to rent at an unbeatable price, but with strange triangle-shaped room that conceals a terrible secret..."Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished screen-writers. The Books of Anguish collect Ruellan's classic horror novels written in the 1950s and 1960s for French publisher Fleuve Noir.

Two science fiction novels by "Kurt Steiner", the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished film writers.BLACK SHEEP:For having questioned the official theory on the existence of a single solar system, Rolf B 40 is condemned to injection n° 25 by the Police of Knowledge. He is then forced to join the ghetto of the contaminated outcasts where he befriends Titanor, a giant afflicted with a horrible tumor, and falls in love with frail Jana, who coughs up blood. The three of them join forces and embark on a quest to discover what lies at the heart of this twisted universe...THE CHILDREN OF HISTORY:History repeats itself when, in 2468, a violent revolution erupts in a utopian society. The Brains and the Natural Men preach the abandonment of all technology. The savage Children of History threaten to rise up. Alberg, the Mutant Hunter, in love with Iona, whose teeth glow at the slightest emotion, is caught in the turmoil. Will he use this opportunity to seize power?

The Improbables:For Dr. Manuel Esteban, discovering that he now has gills when coming in contact with water is already a fairly striking revelation.. But seeing himself invited to a cannibal feast by the woman of his dreams is a shock, especially especially after having been brutally torn away from his peaceful existence as a ruthless scientist, four hundred years from now.But, what perils wouldn't Esteban be willing to face in order to reach the paradisal world of the "Improbables" located at the end of a fabulous temporal quest created by the defectors from the eternal time war between Babelia and Kaltarborog...The 32nd of July:After becoming the victim of a strange particle experiment, CIA operative Ken Broad finds himself in an alien city, except it is not a city at all, but a vast, living being. Venturing into the organs of that formidable chained Leviathan, which compensates for its natural immobility by releasing hordes of bizarre cells, can Ken and his companions find a way to ghet back to Earth ?"Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished film writers.

A Stanford University Press classic.