ANGOISSE
French weird tales collection. 261 issues [1954-1974]. The series was printed in much less copies than the other Fleuve Noir series and, if “Angoisse” could run for such a long time (all other french popular fantastic attempts did not last very long) it was due to the success of “Espionnage” and “Special Police” that, in a sense, “paid” for “Angoisse”. And there was undoubtedly a nucleus of faithful readers.
“Angoisse” remains as my favorite paperback collection among all. B.R.Bruss (Roger Blondel / René Bonnefoy), Benoit Becker (José-André Lacour, Jean-Claude Carrière, Christiane Rochefort...), Kurt Steiner (André Ruellan), Marc Agapit (Adrien Sobra), and even Peter Randa (André Duquesne),....what they wrote here, this very special kind of stories, is not to compare. Angoisse...a magical aura....Its authors were nicknamed “Les Angoisseurs”...
Later on, others will join (not many and not ever so convincing as the formers): Jean Murelli, Dominique-Henri Keller (François Richard), André Caroff (André Carpouzis), G.J. Arnaud, Paul Béra (Paul Bérato), Dominique Arly (Constant Pettex), Pierre Suragne (Pierre Pelot), Alphonse Brutsche (Jean-Pierre Andrevon)...,and Maurice Limat will give here -with his detective of the occult, Teddy Verano - what can be considered as the best of his considerable pulp writer production....
Reproduced here, 10 among the 20 first issues.
cover art: Michel Gourdon
Publisher: Editions Fleuve Noir, Paris
Literary director: François Richard
source:amsaklapper’s collection
