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Maurice Level

Maurice Level was a French writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre which were printed regularly in the columns of Paris newspapers and sometimes staged by le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, the repertory company in Paris's Pigalle district devoted to melodramatic productions which emphasized blood and gore.

Selected works in French
• L'épouvante: Roman (1908) novel, translated as Terror (newspaper serial, US, 1908–09) The Grip of Fear (UK, 1909; US, 1911) • Les Portes de l'Enfer (1910), (meaning “The Gates of Hell”) short stories • Les Oiseaux de nuit (1913) short stories • Mado ou les mille joies du ménage (1914) humorous sketches • Vivre pour la patrie (1917) novel • L'Alouette: Roman (1918) • Mado ou la Guerre à Paris (1919) humorous sketches • Le Manteau d'arlequin: Roman (1919) • Barrabas: Roman (1920) • L'Ombre: Roman (1921) Novel translated as The Shadow (UK, 1923) Those who return (US, 1923) • Le Crime: Roman (1921) • Au pays du Tendre (1921) • Les morts étranges (1921) short stories • L'Île sans nom (1922) • L'Ame de minuit (serial, 1923; first book publication in 2017, Lulu.com, ) • La Cité des voleurs: Roman (1924) • Le Marchand de secrets (1928) • L'Egnime de Bellavista (1928) prequel to Le Marchand de secrets • Contes du Matin 1921-1924, sous la direction littéraire de Colette, preface by Jean-Luc Buard, La Bibliothèque Maurice Level/The International Maurice Level Library, 2017 () • Contes de guerre 1914-1922, edited by Jean-Luc Buard, AARP/Centre Rocambole/Encrage, 2017 () • Un maniaque et autres contes de l'Auto, 1904-1910, preface by Jean-Luc Buard, "La Bibliothèque Maurice Level"/Lulu.com, 2018 (). Of this collection, the story mentioned in the title (Un maniaque, “A madman”) was published in an anthology of stories collected by Marvin Kaye called “Devils and Demons” (). It was translated and edited by Marvin Kaye. ==Selected works in English==
Selected works in English
• The Grip of Fear (1909) • Crises: Tales of Mystery and Horror (UK, 1920) 26 short stories translated by Alys Eyre Macklin • a.k.a. Tales of Mystery and Horror (US, 1920) • a.k.a. Grand Guignol Stories (UK, 1922) • Those Who Return (1923) translated by Bérengère Drillien • Stories of Fear and Fascination: The Fiction of Maurice Level (2007) edited by John Robert Colombo with appreciations by Philippe Gontier, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. • Thirty Hours with a Corpse, And Other Tales of the Grand Guignol (2016) edited and introduced by S.T. Joshi. (Dover Publications, 2016) • Crises, vol. 1: Tales of Mystery and Horror and Ten Other Uncollected Short Stories, Bordeaux, Mad Sheep, 2017, 232 p. (), with afterword "Alys Eyre Macklin, Maurice Level's English Friend and Translator" by Jean-Luc Buard. New enlarged and illustrated edition of 1920 collection ==Notes==
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