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Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.
This volume, the fourth of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre’s
works, offers the novella, The Love Life of Messalina (1925), in
which the eponymous character is possessed by a version of the god Priapus,
and becomes an incarnation of lust, and the novel The Angel of Lust
(1926), a violent melodrama about a great conflict between rival fraternities
dedicated to good and evil.
In it, Isabelle, the daughter of a Castilian nobleman once sold as a slave
by the raiders of Granada, uses magic to seduce the scholar Almazan away
from the studies that he has commenced with Rosenkreutz, despite the threat
of assassins dispatched by Tomas de Torquemada to murder the freethinkers
of Europe.
CONTENTS:
La Vie amoureuse de Messaline [The Love Life of Messalina, 1925]
La Luxure de Grenade [The Angel of Lust, 1926]
Christian Rosenkreutz et les Rose-croix [Christian Rosenkreutz and the
Rosicrucians, 1930]
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman
Published by Black Coat Press in September 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61227-668-7
