Sunday, June 6 Prologue, and Episode 1 The Mistress of the Wandering Jew Episode 2 Human Justice Episode 3 Villa WisteriaSunday, June 13Episode 4 The Stigmata Episode 5 Noë;lle Maupré Episode 6 The Condemned Man's Daughter Episode 7 The Wings of SatanSunday, June 20Episode 8 The Mysterious Manor Episode 9 The Hostage Episode 10 The Secret Dungeon Episode 11 The Ghost Episode 12 JusticeFans of Irma Vep and Fantômas-the cinema's first anti-heroes, introduced in the ciné-romans of Louis Feuillade-should start lining up now for Feuillade's Barrabas, another evil genius in another early masterpiece of poetic realism. This serial was shot on the Riviera-mostly in the hills overlooking Nice-where Feuillade could employ "the poisons of paradise," as Francis Lacassin wrote. "The sun...erases the shadows, rendering good and evil indistinguishable." Barrabas posits an international criminal gang operating behind the cover of a banking corporation. This in turn opens to a health clinic (useful for disposing of one's enemies), a luxury hotel, and a château, all ruled over by a mysterious figure, code name Barrabas. It was this "world of appearances (and its) parallel nightmare world" (Lacassin), even more than the dastardly clever heroes, that made Feuillade the darling of the Surrealists. As in Les Vampires, with straightfaced humor he used disingenuous juxtaposition to evoke the mystery of the real, as well as its absurdity. Long before Hitchcock and Chabrol, he knew that "nothing can be more frightening than extraordinary events against a normal, everyday background" (Richard Roud).