{"id":13210,"date":"2022-03-10T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=13210"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:44:15","slug":"h-bedford-jones-the-second-life-of-monsieur-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2022\/03\/10\/h-bedford-jones-the-second-life-of-monsieur-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford-Jones’ ‘The Second Life of Monsieur the Devil’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a copy of H. Bedford-Jones<\/strong>‘ (1887-1949) novellette The Second Life of Monsieur the Devil<\/em>. First appearing in the November 1920 Blue Book Magazine<\/em>, it has been reprinted by Wildside Press<\/a>. I found another print copy from an unknown publisher.<\/p>\n

\""The<\/a>Set in French Indochina around 1920, it’s an adventure tale with a large cast of characters. M. le Diable<\/strong> is the main character, a criminal with several alias, one being Lebrun<\/strong>. Condemned to life imprisonment to the French penal colony on New Caledonia, Noum\u00e9a, he has somehow escapes and vows revenge against the French colonial officers who so sentanced him.<\/p>\n

Another main character is Berangere Des Gachons<\/strong>, who lives with her father on a remote island off the coast of French Indochina with a small cadre of servants. Her father is a well-off, former French colonial officer. She soon takes a trip to Saigon with only a Breton boatman. There among other things she engages the services of a young widow as her personal maid.<\/p>\n

We see Monsieur the Devil also in Saigon, putting together a crew to help in his quest. This includes L’Etiole<\/strong>, Le Morpion<\/strong>, Curel<\/strong>, and J. Hudson Smith<\/strong>. And we learn that the young widow is also part of his group. L’Etiole and Le Morpion are wanted by the police. Curel is a sailor now addicted to opium pills. J. Hudson Smith is an American, who the police want information on. What a group. Before they even get to the island in question, an altercation occurs between L’Etiole and Smith that leads to L’Etiole’s death and Smith being grievously wounded by a knife.<\/p>\n

Will Lebrun succeed in his vengeance? What about the young girl, Berangere? What is the role of Smith in all of this?<\/p>\n

Another interesting, if a little too short, tale by Bedford-Jones. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a copy of H. Bedford-Jones‘ (1887-1949) novellette The Second Life of Monsieur the Devil. First appearing in the November 1920 Blue Book Magazine, it has been reprinted by Wildside Press. I found another print copy from an unknown publisher. Set in French Indochina around 1920, it’s an adventure tale with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at H. Bedford-Jones' \"The Second Life of Monsieur the Devil.\" #pulpmags","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[171,546,153,247],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pulps","category-reprints","tag-adventure-pulps","tag-blue-book","tag-h-bedford-jones","tag-wildside-press"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/12\/second-life-of-monsieur-the-devil-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-3r4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21982,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions\/21982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13210"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=13210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}