The eight Doctor Satan stories by Paul Ernst appeared in Weird Tales in 1935 and 1936. Doctor Satan, an enormously wealthy man, tired of all the thrills that money can buy, turned to crime and became a cold-blooded monster. He employs both scientific and occult knowledge to commit fiendish and sinister acts of evil, and spectacularly gruesome murders. Ascott Keane, strangest of detectives, with an equal knowledge of science and the occult, battles against the diabolical Doctor Satan to save society. Doctor Satan (1935) – The world’s weirdest criminal and strangest detective come face to face—a thrilling, fascinating and utterly different mystery story 1 - The Death Shrub 2 - Ascott Keane 3 - Doctor Satan 4 - Satan’s Trap 5 - The Two Titans The Man Who Chained the Lightning (1935) – Another amazing tale of Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal, whose startling exploits will hold you spellbound 1 - Death on the Wall 2 - Beneath the Metropolis 3 - The Red Trail 4 - The Fifth Victim 5 - Chained Lightning Hollywood Horror (1935) – Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal, spreads terror in Hollywood in a powerful thrill-tale of blind, unreasoning fear and panic terror 1 - Death in Life 2 - Satan’s Decree 3 - The Heart of the Web 4 - Black Box of Death The Consuming Flame (1935) – A violet flash, then the speeding car and its inhabitants vanished from sight leaving only a charred spot on the concrete of the highway. Another amazing tale of Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal. 1 - The Night Explodes 2 - The Death Engine 3 - Satan Schemes 4 - The Voice of Satan 5 - Living Death 6 - Two Metal Cubes Horror Insured (1936) – Another amazing story about the exploits of the sinister figure who calls himself Doctor Satan, the world’s weirdest criminal—a tale of breathtaking incidents and eery power 1 - In Satan’s Crucible 2 - Lucifex Insurance Co. 3 - Stroke and Counterstroke 4 - The Screaming Three Beyond Death’s Gateway (1936) – Doctor Satan and Ascott Keane battle to the death— in the Afterlife! A four chapter novelette. The Devil’s Double (1936) – A powerful, blood-chilling thrill-tale about the Blue Death and the world’s weirdest criminal, who called himself Doctor Satan 1 - The Mad Dancer 2 - Satan’s Threat 3 - Road to Hell 4 - Hell’s Anteroom 5 - The Scarlet Twain Mask of Death (1936) – A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies 1 - The Dread Paralysis 2 - The Living Dead 3 - The Stopped Watch 4 - The Shell 5 - Death’s Lovely Mask The Diabolical Doctor Satan has 10 illustrations.

The complete eight story arc as first published in Weird Tales pulp magazine featuring Ascott Keane, wealthy playboy/criminologist fighting the diabolical and masked Doctor Satan.

In March 1944, as the Nazis occupied Paris, the French Police and Fire Brigade were called to investigate a vile-smelling black smoke that had been pouring from the chimney of 21 Rue La Sueur for days. Inside the house, they were confronted with a scene from a nightmare. The thick black smoke was rising from a series of wood-burning stoves throughout the property that were stocked with human remains. In the basement, they discovered a furnace with larger body parts and a pit filled with quicklime and decay. There were suitcases full of the deceased's belongings, and in the other rooms, they came upon something like a factory line of bodies. This was not mere murder - it was methodical processing of corpses. The homeowner was Dr. Marcel Petiot, an admired and charismatic physician. When questioned, Dr. Petiot claimed that he was a part of the Resistance and the bodies they discovered belonged to Nazi collaborators that he killed for the cause. The French Police, resentful of Nazi occupation and confused by a rational alternative, allowed him to leave. Was the respected Doctor a clandestine hero fighting for national liberty or a deviant using dire domestic circumstances to his advantage? One thing is for certain, the Police and the Nazis both wanted to get their hands on Dr. Marcel Petiot to find out the truth. Doctor Satan is a chilling account of Dr. Marcel Petiot and one of the most disturbing true crime stories in French history. Ryan Green's riveting narrative draws the reader into the real-live horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller. CAUTION: This book contains descriptive accounts of torture, abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this material, it might be advisable not to read any further

From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, '100 European Horror Films' provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day. Alongside films from countries particularly associated with horror production - notably Germany, Italy, and Spain and movies by key horror filmmakers such as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci, '100 European Horror Films' also includes films from countries as diverse as Denmark, Belgium, and the Soviet Union, and filmmakers such as Bergman, Polanski and Claire Denis, more commonly associated with art cinema. The book features entries representing key horror subgenres such as the Italian 'giallo' thrillers of the late 60s and 70s, psychological thrillers, and zombie, cannibal, and vampire movies. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film's significance, together with its production and exhibition history. Films covered in the book include early classics such as Paul Wegener's 'The Golem,' Robert Wiene's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,' and 'Murnau's Nosferatu'; 70s horror favorites such as 'Daughters of Darkness, The Beast,' and 'Suspiria'; and notable recent releases such as 'The Devil's Backbone, Malefique,' and 'The Vanishing.'

In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horror and science fiction double features. Though many of these films were low-budget and low-end, others, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Horror of Dracula and The Fly, became bona fide classics. Beginning with Universal-International's 1955 pairing of Revenge of the Creature and Cult of the Cobra, 147 officially sanctioned horror and sci-fi double-bills were released over a 20-year period. This book presents these double features year-by-year, and includes production details, historical notes, and critical commentary for each film.

Collects Captain America: Patriot #1-4, What If? (1977) #4, All-Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special. What does it take to be the living symbol of America...the Sentinel of Liberty...the Super-Soldier of World War II? What does it take to be Captain America? 1941. Captain America puts on his mask and shield for the first time, and instantly inspires an entire nation - including rough-and-tumble reporter Jeff Mace, who quickly dons his own star-spangled suit and calls himself the Patriot! It's a decision that will take him from stopping stateside saboteurs to headlining the home-front heroes known as the Liberty Legion to the most unexpected offer of all when the Sentinel of Liberty dies, and Jeff Mace is asked to be the next Captain America! This is the story of a man who was a great Patriot and his determination to be something more. His attempt to be not just a hero, but a symbol. His struggle to show he has what it takes to be Captain America! Plus: It's 1946, and the memory of those lost in World War II haunts everyone - including Jeff Mace, the new Captain America, and his teammates on the All-Winners Squad - especially when Times Square is overrun by undead soldiers wanting their lives back! And bear witness as Mace takes up the mantle of Captain America as originally chronicled in the classic "What If the Invaders Had Stayed Together after World War Two?

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure. The 72 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most depraved of psyches, from iconic antiheroes like Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin and Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to contemporary delinquents like Lawrence Block's Ehrengraf and Donald Westlake's Dortmunder, and include unforgettable tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman, and many more.

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. In this rigorusly researched factual novel-drawn almost entirely from historical documents-Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through these years of flight. This chilling novel situates the reader in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century. Selected as one of The 50 best books of 2022 by The Telegraph

This fourth book in Ashley's series traces the roots of the occult - devil worship, ritual killing, witchcraft, etc... throughout history. Written in reader-friendly but scholarly prose. Within these pages readers will find potions and charms, incantations and amulets. There are detailed descriptions of bloody rituals, the sensational black masses of France, the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and an introduction into the habits of werewolves and vampire

Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.