Midi-Minuit Fantastique

Midi-Minuit Fantastique no. 2, July-August 1962, Éditions Le Terrain Vague, Paris. Special issue dedicated to 'Fantastic Vamps' of cinema, with the celebrated cover featuring Mary Morris in 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1940). Exceptional contents including an unpublished text by Boris Vian ('A Privatif, A Griffes, A Nageoires'), a contribution by André Pieyre de Mandiargues on Belen, and foundational articles by Jean Boullet, Jean-Claude Romer and Francis Lacassin on the figure of the femme fatale in fantastic cinema. Original publisher's wrappers in good general condition, with normal patina of time. Pioneering journal and today highly sought after, testimony to the nascent specialized French cinephilia of the 1960s.