Renaud Marhic


Renaud Marhic is a French writer and journalist. He has written non-fiction books on
topics including cults, the far-right, pseudoscience, terrorism, and religious fundamentalism. Marhic is
also the writer of several crime novels, and the children's book series Les Lutins Urbains.
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Early life

Renaud Marhic was born July 1965, in Brest, Brittany, France. He had a column in the newspaper , which focused on rumors. He contributed as an investigative journalist to several other publications, including Charlie Hebdo, Le Nouvel Obs, VSD, and .
Marhic was the founder and president of the group M... à l'apocalypse. Formed in June 1999, they gathered in Paris to celebrate the failure of Paco Rabanne's predictions of the Mir space station crashing into France. The group was to be disbanded later in August.

Writing career

Marhic has written non fiction books on topic relating to cults, the far-right, pseudoscience, terrorism, and religious fundamentalism. He has been referred to as a cult expert by the media. He was the editor of the Faits et illusions series, which focused on pseudoscientific and paranormal topics from a scientific perspective.
In 1995, he published a book discussing the Order of the Solar Temple cult affair. The following year, he released an updated and expanded edition. In the book, he argues that the OTS did not dissolve after the first mass suicide, and a new leader had succeeded the dead ones; the group would commit another mass suicide later that year. He does not name the supposed third leader, but implicates Michel Tabachnik.
His past experience writing books related to crime, including the Solar Temple case, led to his interest in writing crime fiction. After the turn of the millennium, he wrote fiction novels and children's literature. He is the writer of the novel series Polars & Grimoires, published by and the Les Lutins Urbains children's book series published by. Les Lutins Urbains is inspired by Marhic's childhood experiences being told Breton folk tales. In presenting his works, he sometimes has displays of his characters as holograms.

Non-fiction

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