Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur

Overview:

• Title: Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur
• Author: Francis Lacassin
• Year: 2000
• ISBN-10: 2221078101
• Publisher: Robert Laffont
• Price: €25.76
• Pages: viii+911
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: L'élixir de longue vie
• Notes:
  • Probable first printing; DL = April 2000; © Éditions Robert Laffont, 2000.
  • Exact date from publisher's site, bouquins.tm.fr.
  • Single star or flower symbol on spine and title page, marking this book as the first volume of a set. As yet (14 years later), no second volume has been published, and probably never will be, as Francis Lacassin died in 2008.
  • Art credit on bc, indicated as : "Maquette : D. Arnault. Illustration : Jean-Philippe Marie".
  • Price on bc, indicated as : "25,76 € / 169 F".
  • Number of pages indicated on bc as "928 pages", which includes introduction (in Roman numerals) and other unnumbered pages.
  • Each story is preceded by a short bio-bibliographical presentation by Francis Lacassin.
  • Quite a few stories included in this anthology are in fact excerpts from longer works. Their titles have sometimes been made up by the editor.
  • The spelling of the older texts has been modernized and normalized, although this does not appear clearly anywhere. It might be implicit in the mention "Édition établie par Francis Lacassin" on title page.
  • "Le club des hachichins" by Théophile Gautier is indicated as having being published in 1946, a typo for 1846. The date has been corrected here.