THE SHORES OF NIGHT A cursed book said to have been written by Cagliostro drags an English journalist and his fiancée into an endless nightmare... THE VILLAGE OF LEPERS: From the lake covering a small submerged Italian village emerge the leprous specters of a past era... "Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan (1922-2016), one of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished film writers.