Mortefontaine (Books of Anguish 2)



MORTEFONTAINE (BOOKS OF ANGUISH 2)

MORTEFONTAINE + THE THRESHOLD OF THE VOID

2 horror novels by Kurt Steiner

translated by Sheryl Curtis

cover by Mariusz Gandzel


In living memory, generation after generation, no one had ever seen water flow in the granite basin. Perhaps that was where the name, Mortefontaine, “dead foun-tain”, came from...


US$ 20.95/GBP 18.99
5x8 tpb, 256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-240-1


MORTEFONTAINE
In 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 VOID
Wanda, 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...

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"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.


Contents:
Introduction by Jean-Marc Lofficier
MORTEFONTAINE (1959)
THE THRESHOLD OF THE VOID (LE SEUIL DU VIDE) (1956)