Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is Bernard Taylor's excellently creepy English folk horror novel THE MOORSTONE SICKNESS (1982). If you haven't read it, this'll be the best three bucks you ever spent. www.amazon.com/Moorstone-Si...

A new day, a new spooky ebook deal! Grab John Blackburn's 1960s folk horror novel CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT for just $2.99 on Kindle worldwide, today only! www.amazon.com/dp/B09FYLLXQ...

A new day, a new spooky ebook deal! Grab John Blackburn's 1960s folk horror novel CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT for just $2.99 on Kindle worldwide, today only! www.amazon.com/dp/B09FYLLXQ...

Lovely book post! ... 'The Jewelled Hand', a collection of 24 tales by Australian writer Lionel Sparrow, just published by the wonderful @valancourtbooks.bsky.social.

Harry Kressing's The Cook is a little masterpiece, kind of like a tiny stiletto that slips under your arm and eviscerates you as you reach for another canapé. Highly recommended! neglectedbooks.com?p=2077

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...

We're doing spooky ebook deals all month long for Halloween! Today's deal: today only, get our first WORLD HORROR STORIES book on Kindle for just $2.99! It's over 400 pages of stories translated from over a dozen languages, a bargain at $2.99! www.amazon.com/Valancourt-B...

My preorders for two brand new @valancourtbooks.bsky.social reissues arrived The Great Victorian Collection by Bryan Moore (1970s) The Jewelled Hand and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre by Lionel Sparrow (Australian and Victorian era writer) 🩸📚💙 #booksky #gothic #horror

$2.99 Kindle deals through tomorrow, available worldwide!

WOW! 🤩😻🖤 Check out this new Valancourt display at Toadvine Books in Berkley, MI. If you're in the area, you definitely need to stop by and check out this amazing bookshop!

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals, and they're both deliciously sinister reads! Robert M. Coates's WISTERIA COTTAGE (1948) is a noir psychological thriller from the point of view of a very disturbed bookstore clerk. Stephen Walton's NO TRANSFER (1968) tells of weird doings on a weirder college campus.

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals, and they're both deliciously sinister reads! Robert M. Coates's WISTERIA COTTAGE (1948) is a noir psychological thriller from the point of view of a very disturbed bookstore clerk. Stephen Walton's NO TRANSFER (1968) tells of weird doings on a weirder college campus.

Website preorders for this new collection of rediscovered Gothic and Decadent tales by Australian author Lionel Sparrow will shipping in the next 1-2 weeks. If you didn't preorder your copy yet, you can still be among the first to get one: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-jewelled...

Our Mystery Box deal is back! 3 random books for $33, which is like buying two books and getting one free. Actually it's even cheaper than that. These'll have a mix of horror, thriller, mystery, etc. A fun way to grow your Valancourt library. No two are the same! www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

Our Mystery Box deal is back! 3 random books for $33, which is like buying two books and getting one free. Actually it's even cheaper than that. These'll have a mix of horror, thriller, mystery, etc. A fun way to grow your Valancourt library. No two are the same! www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

Our 30th anniversary rewatch of The X-Files continues. Tonight's episode aired September 22nd, 1995. Season three premiere!

I have a feeling my job's safe from AI for a while yet. I asked Google why there are no good pizza places in Richmond, and it told me I should focus on eating blue crabs instead, then cited a list of three nonexistent pizza restaurants supposedly popular with locals.

Bailey is also Biscuit Brains, War Bonds, Digger Barnes, Mister Bails, Bailzebub, and quite a few others.

Website preorders for this new collection of rediscovered Gothic and Decadent tales by Australian author Lionel Sparrow will shipping in the next 1-2 weeks. If you didn't preorder your copy yet, you can still be among the first to get one: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-jewelled...

With Halloween coming up, it's time to read something spooky! (Heck, it's always time for that, but especially now!) You might have missed that we teamed up with Rue Morgue to offer a bundle deal for just $59 for four great horror titles, perfect seasonal reading: www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

Monday is the official start of Autumn and I have never needed it more in my whole life. I read Classic and Gothic Horror for the Fall/Winter season. This year's classic is THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon--but here are some that I have read & loved previously-try @valancourtbooks.bsky.social for books!

This terrific reissue just went on sale worldwide this week, Brian Moore's award-winning classic of magical realism, THE GREAT VICTORIAN COLLECTION. If you trust our taste in books and haven't read this one, give it a shot. It's excellent. www.valancourtbooks.com/the-great-vi...

Swamp sunflowers in bloom, always one of the first tangible signs that the horrors of summer are almost over and autumn is just around the corner.

I think my ideal Christmas present would be the entire Paperbacks from Hell collection from Valancourt Books.

OINK!

Ready for the 30th anniversary of season three later this month!

It's that time again folks, time to ransack your couch cushions and smash your piggy banks in search of $2.99 for these Kindle deals! Tom Reamy's BLIND VOICES involves a mysterious circus that comes to a small Kansas town, while THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT DIE is an unusual medical-themed ghost story.

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

My new FREE TO ALL Reading Project Post is up! It's a special @valancourtbooks.bsky.social -centric post, covering MONKEYFACE by Stephen Gilbert, and THE GASTEROPOD by Maggie Ross! billryan64.substack.com/p/chloride-o...

I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding

Reminder we have these two great ebooks on Kindle for just $2.99 thru the end of the month! This is the first time we've ever put these on sale, don't miss your chance to grab them cheap!

A great release from last year that a lot of you missed is Bob Randall's THE CALLING, a devilishly fun '80s horror novel in which an ordinary woman's life is turned upside down when she starts receiving freaky phone calls coming straight from Hell! www.valancourtbooks.com/the-calling-...

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals are now live! Michael Shea's POLYPHEMUS contains some of his best work, including the famous novella "The Autopsy", while L.P. Hartley's FACIAL JUSTICE is a classic dystopian tale for fans of 1984 and Brave New World. (The Hartley book not available in UK/Commonwealth).

The initial results of Operation: I’m Sad, I’m Buying Books are trickling in. You don’t have to be sad to order from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, though! (But it helps.) Been meaning to read both of these for a while, stoked.

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Special Publisher Shelf Straightening: My @valancourtbooks.bsky.social collection, as well as the complete run of VASTERIAN from @grimscribepress.bsky.social

Great review of Rosalind Ashe's MOTHS in Library Journal: "Lush gothic atmosphere gives way to murderous lust ... an engrossing, deliciously seductive supernatural thriller." The latest in our MONSTER, SHE WROTE series! Read more or order here: valancourtbooks.com/moths-1976.h...

Robert Bloch returns to his cosmic horror roots for a novel of Lovecraftian terror featuring ghouls, aquatic horrors, and plenty of references to Lovecraft’s works. Let’s welcome the thrilling STRANGE EONS back into print! @valancourtbooks.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/s...

Cover reveal for Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER, design by Vince Haig. If you read Attila's THE BLACK MAYBE, you already know that nothing's going to make things any easier for the characters in his cosmic horror tales. Preorder: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Proof just arrived for this one, a great new collection of never-before-reprinted Australian Gothic tales by the long-lost author Lionel Sparrow (1867-1936). These are macabre and decadent and a lot of fun! Check it out here: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-jewelled...

Happy 85th, Bugs Bunny! 🥕 He made his first official appearance in Tex Avery's A WILD HARE, released on this date in 1940. #FilmSky #LooneyTunes #BugsBunny

Cover reveal for Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER, design by Vince Haig. If you read Attila's THE BLACK MAYBE, you already know that nothing's going to make things any easier for the characters in his cosmic horror tales. Preorder: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Proof just arrived for this one, a great new collection of never-before-reprinted Australian Gothic tales by the long-lost author Lionel Sparrow (1867-1936). These are macabre and decadent and a lot of fun! Check it out here: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-jewelled...

I feel like Gogol would have approved of Mailchimp. People unsubscribe from your emails, but like a modern-day Dead Souls, they stay on your "contacts" list and you have to pay for them still.

Remember this one we put out in 2022? It was a Stoker Award finalist and Rue Morgue's best collection of the year, and critics hailed it as the most exciting debut since Barker and Ligotti. Well, Attila Veres is back with a new volume, and it'll be for preorder in tomorrow's email newsletter!

Book 56: A Sour Apple Tree (1958) by John Blackburn, reissued by @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Another fun, albeit formulaic General Kirk story, mixing pseudo-science pulp with espionage thriller. I have a lot of fun with these stories - they're pure escapism ⚡📚💙 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Found this beautiful Victorian(?) painting on the side of the road just now. No signature that I can see, but it’s lovely, especially for free.

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at an award-winning publisher of neglected classics, supernatural horror, and LGBTQ literature, Richmond, Virginia’s Valancourt Books (@valancourtbooks.bsky.social)!

Now up for preorder, Brian Moore's award-winning magical realist masterpiece, THE GREAT VICTORIAN COLLECTION (1975), in which a history professor dreams of a collection of priceless Victoriana and awakens to find it's come to life right outside his window. www.valancourtbooks.com/the-great-vi...

A great deal on some essential Horror classics!!