What Mad Universe?!?
An adventure through the history of pulp SF and fantasy!
4 years ago

S2E36 -Chapter Thirty-Six: Darkness His Accomplice!

On THE NYCTALOPE novels by Jean La Hire

In this newest episode of WMU?!? we take a look at one of Philip's Bete Noirs (literally), a series of French pulp novels from before WWI about adventurer-hero Leo St. Clair, the Nyctalope, and his Sci-Fi adventures. Written with all the care and elegance of a 7th grader with an essay due the next morning, these stories nevertheless reflect a lot of the classic pulp tropes and may even be a stage in the development of the superhero. Somewhere, Riddick is taking notes (in the dark)...

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