The most notorious series of pulp detective novels in the history of French literature. The most popular Western film released in Soviet cinemas. Their main character is an elusive criminal who shackled Paris with fear a century ago. Between the two world wars, together with the surrealists, he made the line between fiction and reality indistinguishable. In the sixties, a series of brilliant film comedies turned him into an icon of mass culture. You have in your hands the first Russian-language and one of the most complete studies in the world of the literary and cinematic image of Fantômas. This work continues the project of the publishing house "UFO" and journalist Andrei Shary "Idols of our childhood", begun by the book about James Bond "Sign 007: On Her Majesty's Secret Service".