Belphegor: The Phantom of the Louvre

The success of the pulp mystery series Fanta´mas, launched in 1909, inspired many successors including Arnould Galopin's Tenebras (1911), Gaston Rene's Masque Rouge (1913), and Arthur Bernede's Judex (1917), co-created with film director Louis Feuillade. In 1927, Bernede produced another simultaneous book and film project — Belphegor.
Belphegor concerns its eponymous criminal mastermind, a hooded maniac whose name derives from a malefic demon, and who is obsessed with retrieving the lost tr...