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Contents announced (revised) for Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs

Contents announced (revised) for Black Coat Press' Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs

TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 8: AGENTS PROVOCATEURS (December 2011)
cover artist: Jean-Claude Claeys





Matthew Baugh: Don Camillo and the Secret Weapon
Nicholas Boving: The Elfberg Red
Matthew Dennion: The Most Dreadful Monster
Win Scott Eckert: Marguerite's Tears
John Gallagher: The Books of Shadows (illustrated portfolio)
Martin Gately: Leviathan Creek
Micah Harris: Slouching Towards Camulodunum
Travis Hiltz: In the Caves of the Serpent
Paul Hugli: Sleep No More
Rick Lai: Vampire Renaissance
Joseph Lamere: Satan's Signature

Olivier Legrand: Lost in Averoigne
J.-M. & Randy Lofficier: The Affair of the Necklace Revisited
David McDonald: Catspaw
Chris Nigro: Patricide
John Peel: More Imaginative Sins
Dennis E. Power: Passing through the Hands of Steel
Pete Rawlik: Before the War, Five Dragons Roar
Joshua Reynolds: The Carolingian Stone
Frank Schildiner: The Death Bird
Michel Stéphan: With the Compliments of Nestor Burma!
Michel Vannereux: The Warlord of Vaha

The title and cover for next year's volume have also been selected:
TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 9: LA VIE EN NOIR (December 2012)
cover artist: Nathalie Lial.

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Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocatuers

Was given a "last chance offer" last Sunday to contribute a "shortish story" to this year's Tales of the Shadowmen anthology. Cranked out a 1900 word story, "Marguerite's Tears" (as in Marguerite, Lady Blakeney, the wife of the Scarlet Pimpernel), and sent it off today.

The publisher of Black Coat Press lives in France and it's midnight there . . . damn time zones! Now I have to wait until tomorrow morning to find out if it's been accepted or not!

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The Return of Madame Atomos

Amidst the recent high-profile releases of The Green Hornet Casefiles and The Avenger: The Justice, Inc. Files, I'd be remiss if I overlooked mentioning the release of the third volume in Black Coat Press' translations of the French series Madame Atomos by Andre Caroff.

From BCP publisher Jean-Marc Lofficier's page of Madame Atomos:

The deadly Madame Atomos (real name: Kanoto Yoshimuta) is a brilliant but twisted middle-aged female Japanese scientist who is out to revenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- where she was born. 
 
A sample plot had the title character unleash a deadly new threat, such as radioactive zombies, deadly giant mushrooms, a madness-inducing ray, flaming tornadoes, etc.

The heroes opposing Madame Atomos are: Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police.  Dr. Soblen was killed by Madame Atomos in No. 11. With the help of former master criminal Owen Bernitz, Beffort also created the "Green Dragon" squad to fight Madame Atomos.
 
An interesting development was the creation by Madame Atomos of a younger version of herself, Mie Azusa, dubbed Miss Atomos, groomed to continue the fight should Madame Atomos came to die.  Mie eventually fell in love with Beffort, married him and joined forces with him to fight her evil progenitrix. They had a son, Bob, who was killed by Madame Atomos.

Madame Atomos herself regenerated into a younger self in No. 13, but remained as revenge-bent as ever. The series was left somewhat unfinished by the cancellation of the "Angoisse" imprint.

BCP's third volume is The Return of Madame Atomos by André Caroff; adapted by Michael Shreve:

Contents:
- Introduction by J.-M. Lofficier
- Miss Atomos vs. The KKK [Miss Atomos contre KKK] (1966)
- The Return of Madame Atomos [Le Retour de Mme Atomos] (1966)
- The Atomos Affair (short story by Win Scott Eckert)

Miss Atomos' fight to the death against the KKK, and her eventual betrayal after falling in love with Smith Beffort, herald the return of the sinister Madame Atomos -- deadlier than ever!

US$22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 288 pages

My short story contribution to this volume, "The Atomos Affair," takes place during the New York Blackout on November, 9, 1965, which a later Atomos book said the villainess caused. 

The story involves two secret agents and their avuncular boss. I hope you'll check it out. :-)

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Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs

Contents announced for Black Coat Press' Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs

I unfortunately didn't have time to submit a tale for this year's anthology, but plan to be back in 2012.

TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 8: AGENTS PROVOCATEURS (December 2011) :

Matthew Baugh: Don Camillo and the Secret Weapon
Nicholas Boving: The Elfberg Red
Matthew Dennion: The Most Dreadful Monster
John Gallagher: The Books of Shadows (illustrated portfolio)
Martin Gately: Leviathan Creek
Micah Harris: Slouching Towards Camulodunum
Travis Hiltz: In the Caves of the Serpent
Paul Hugli: Sleep No More
Rick Lai: Vampire Renaissance
Joseph Lamere: Satan's Signature
Olivier Legrand: Lost in Averoigne
J.-M. & Randy Lofficier: The Affair of the Necklace Revisited
David McDonald: Catspaw
Chris Nigro: Patricide
John Peel: More Imaginative Sins
Dennis E. Power: Passing through the Hands of Steel
Pete Rawlik: Before the War, Five Dragons Roar
Joshua Reynolds: The Carolingian Stone
Frank Schildiner: The Death Bird
Michel Stéphan: With the Compliments of Nestor Burma!
Michel Vannereux: The Warlord of Vaha

The title and cover for next year's volume have also been selected:
 TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 9: LA VIE EN NOIR (December 2012)
artist: Nathalie Lial.

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