{"product_id":"9781612272979","title":"The Masters of Silence","description":"Richard Bessière made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF.\u003cp\u003eIn The Masters of Silence (1965), Engineer Milland has been summoned to a secret lab by Professor Watson, but when he arrives, Watson has just been murdered by his wife, Valerie, during what is said to be a fit of madness. Valerie had tested a machine to explore the Inner Mind invented by her husband. Milland volunteers to go into her mind-but, in so doing, may unleash creatures of darkness upon the Earth...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn They Came from the Dark (1967), Ashby, just released from prison, finds himself hired on a ghost ship that travels through time, picking up derelicts like him. He eventually ends up in a mysterious Antarctic valley, which exists outside of time, inhabited by monstrous alien parasites intent on spreading upon the rest of the Earth like an unstoppable disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo classics of French sf\/horror by an acknowledged master of the genre, with an introduction by Stephen R. Bissette.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Coat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031649272048,"sku":"9781612272979","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612272979_p0.jpg?v=1763841967","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612272979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}