Valancourt Books

"Brother Death is perhaps John Lodwick's most original and ambitious thriller, combining the moral questioning of Graham Greene with the edge-of-your-seat suspense of Geoffrey Household or Hitchcock...

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900,...

'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Another of Blackburn's gripping, elemental confrontations of good and evil.' - New York Times 'He is bang on curdling form...

England, 1932. The nation had just begun to recover from the wounds of the First World War when economic catastrophe struck with the Great Depression. It is against this background that Vernon Dexter...

"Kevin Bourque and Valancourt Books are to be congratulated for bringing us a fresh, modern edition of an important eighteenth-century work that has languished too long out of print. Framed by a...

"Kevin Bourque and Valancourt Books are to be congratulated for bringing us a fresh, modern edition of an important eighteenth-century work that has languished too long out of print. Framed by a...

"How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere . . . very neatly done." - The Observer "Three short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the emotions...

"The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King "Readers of weak constitution should beware." - Publishers Weekly "McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington Post ...

'An amazing book.' - Sunday Times 'With this book he establishes his claim to rank as a vastly entertaining observer of human life. He has a very attractive style, a frequently delicious humour, and...

"The most effective shocker yet invented by the author of The Beetle. Grim, fantastic and humorous in an original fashion." - The World "Weird, grotesque and comical. Told with the spirit and vigour...

'The sophisticated and the primitive, the seen and the half-seen . . . homosexuals and witches, in an intriguing mixture of old and new.' - Chicago Tribune 'Brooding, atmospheric . . . an ancestral...

"[I]t belongs with her very best novels ... marks a new departure in its bold and delicate exploration of human psychology and in its economy of style." - Robert Lee Wolff Pregnant and unmarried,...

"An admirable novel... the author has drawn this charming unearthly boy with extraordinary sympathy and penetration." - Manchester Guardian "A work of rare distinction. . . . more than brilliant; it...

Teenager Elsie Kerr is hospitalized with a high fever after being found raped and beaten. When eminent bacteriologist Sir Marcus Levin is asked to consult on the case, Elsie accuses him of the crime,...

An important, though neglected, figure in twentieth-century British horror fiction, Sir Charles Birkin (1907-1985) began his literary career as editor of the popular - and now highly collectible -...

Harry Sinton is suffering from amnesia after a nervous breakdown. When he reads about the death of one of his acquaintances in the newspaper, he becomes convinced that he is the murderer. But he...

A journalist on holiday in a small French village in the 1950s discovers an enigmatic memorial plaque, dedicated to a British soldier who died in World War II "and to his black cat whom he loved"...

More than forty-five years after his first collection was published, here is an original volume of David Case's macabre Gothic tales that showcases the author's remarkable psycho-sexual fiction...

A planetary system, consisting of a star and five planets, is travelling through our galaxy and will pass close to Earth. The four largest planets are gaseous, but the fifth, named Achilles, appears...

"[P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He cannot do other than write beautifully." - Humbert Wolfe "The book abounds in glowing experiences...

'A masterpiece.' - E. M. Forster '[A] strange, sinister, and unforgettable story.' - Manchester Guardian 'Forrest Reid has . . . beautiful, rhythmical prose, a true and permanent voice.' - John...

"One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess "[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." -...

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black...

"I read 'Glenarvon, ' too, by Caro. Lamb....God damn!" - Lord Byron In 1812, Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a prominent politician and future Prime Minister, began a tempestuous affair with Lord Byron,...

A seven-foot-tall man washes up naked on the Scottish coast with no memory of his past and no clue to his identity except the words "Gog" and "Magog" tattooed on his knuckles. Knowing only that he...

"Total entertainment . . . one of those roaring new-wave horror novels that has the power to keep the reader hooked from the first few lines." - Whitley Strieber "A terrifying new novel by the...

'A disturbing, dark novel and an auspicious debut.' - Brian Moore 'The obsessive love of one brother for another makes absorbing reading. The picture of the selfish cold father is very convincing, I...

Harriet Ogilvy is a young woman with a small fortune and a mental disability, making her the ideal target for the handsome and scheming Lewis Oman. After winning Harriet's love, Lewis, with the help...

"In reading it I had several splendid shudders. . . . It is a piece of living literature, not merely an evening's entertainment." - E. B. Osborn, Morning Post "A bang-up ghost-murder-detective story...

"It belongs to those short, perfect books that are rarely written in English." - Evening Standard "[T]his extremely odd performance is indicative of great power." - Gerald Gould, The Observer "[A]...