(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. In Fantômas, the Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered and Inspector Juve, who is obsessed with capturing Fantômas, arrives to solve the murder. 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. The first five novels were made into silent film serials. 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. It is as if there is a little Fantmas in all of us. LibriVox recording of Fantômas, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. In The Lord of Terror, Allain's ( 1925 ) solo novel, Fandor himself suspects Juve of being Fantmas.
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