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In Baal (1924), the great and seductive sorceress Palmyre teaches her assistant Ren e the secret of her magic, including her ability to interact with creatures from other worlds, such as the unspeakable Baal, whose octopus-like form is the three-dimensional projection of an unfathomable four-dimensional entity. The book includes The Devil's Lovers (1929), a heroic saga about Satanism and Witchcraft that follows the adventures of a poacher and his daring wife in war-torn 16th century France. These two ground-breaking supernatural thrillers from early feminist writer Ren e Dunan, also known for her crime fiction and erotic historical novels, depict witchcraft as having its psychological origins in sexuality, reflecting the repression of the sexual impulses by the social norms of the times. "Highly original works that fully deserve translation for the benefit of fans of modern horror fiction and exotic erotica." Brian Stableford. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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Baal is a jazz age thriller, rather analogous to those found in the contemporary American "shudder pulps", full of kidnapped women, mad science, mild titillation and unbridled sadism, with a cracking villain in the sorceress Palmyre, who draws her power from tentacled extra-dimensional demons that parallel those being conjured by Lovecraft over in Providence at around the same time. It's lopsided and looney, but always entertaining.
The Devil's Lovers is rip-roaring Historical adventure about Satanists in 16th France. It seemed to me far better written, although perhaps simply better adapted to modern tastes. In keeping with much French writing of the period Satanism is represented as a revolutionary, subversive force on the side of the oppressed peasantry, rather than the neoliberalism-with-horns variant more often met with today.
Both of these novels are clearly the work of a writer who has done a fair amount of reading around the occult. Combined with her politics, and a firm grasp of the dynamics of pulp fiction, it makes for a fiery brew. Neither of the tales is great literature, but they are charming and eccentric curios that deserve to be better known amongst those of us who care for this sort of thing. Stableford is doing incredible work for Black Coat, along with their other translators, in bringing a wealth of French fantastique, SF and Horror into print in affordable in English translations. ( )