Patrick Marcel Book order (chronological)

“Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.” According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – the world’s only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea… People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…

Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.

Guy de Maupassant, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Jean Ray, Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Poe, Peter Straub, Bram Stoker et son Dracula... Autant de signatures majeures d'un genre littéraire, le fantastique, marqué par l'exploration du surnaturel, de l'horreur et de l'irrationnel. Reflet des peurs les plus intimes, le fantastique accueille depuis l'aube de la littérature des figures imaginaires immortelles : vampires sanguinaires ou romantiques, loups-garous pathétiques, démons impitoyables, maisons hantées ou momies vengeresses. Indispensable outil pour les enseignants, fidèle compa­gnon de voyages du lecteur néophyte ou confirmé, ce guide de lecture propose un parcours souvent terrifiant au sein d'une littérature qui cherche à appréhender les facettes les plus sombres de l'inconscient humain. • historique de la littérature fantastique • 100 propositions de lecture Né en 1956, Patrick Marcel, quand il ne travaille pas pour l'aviation civile, traduit des romans de littérature fantastique et de science-fiction (Hughart, Gaiman, Holdstock, Pratchett...). Il a longtemps dirigé Manticora, une revue consacrée à l'exploration, la présentation et la promo­tion de toutes les formes du fantastique.

This is the story of Jekub, the Dragon in the Hill with great big teeth and a great loud voice. (Well, that’s according to the nomes, but they are only four inches tall.) When humans threaten their new home in the quarry, the natural thing would be to run and hide. But the nomes have got the wild idea that they should fight back. After all, everyone knows that nomes are faster and smarter than humans, and now they have a secret weapon . . . The fantastically funny second book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.