It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire’s controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written … [Read more...] about Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob Van Laerhoven @bobvanlaerhoven
Interview with Author – Bob Van Laerhoven @bobvanlaerhoven
Author Bio: Globetrotter and writer Born with sand between his toes Bob van Laerhoven was born on August 8th 1953 in the sandy soil of Antwerp’s Kempen, where according to the cliché ‘pig-headed clodhoppers’ live. This perhaps explains why he started to write stories at a particularly young age. Some speak of science fiction, but Van Laerhoven hates the expression and prefers to speak of social fiction. A number of his stories were published in English, French, German, Spanish and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Bob Van Laerhoven @bobvanlaerhoven
