How about a $2.99 Kindle deal? This month, grab Stephen Walton's '60s horror tale NO TRANSFER at a bargain price, a story of strange goings-on at an even stranger elite university. On sale on Kindle worldwide thru 3/31! www.amazon.com/No-Transfer-...

The worst kind of evil is the one you never see coming. A nightmarish satire of hometown terror. Replace every traditional value and you’ve truly got Hell in the country. Another horror classic of yesterday from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social. My review: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2023/06/dark...

The Black Maybe by Attila Veres Quite brilliant. A top tier weird/liminal fiction collection that deserves wider reading Veres sits alongside Anders Fager and Stefan Grabiński in @valancourtbooks.bsky.social catalogue of great short story writers #weirdfiction #wyrdwednesday #SFinTranslation 🩸📚💙

Later, when one of the monsters cranked up the volume, the party really got going.

OINK OINK! We're getting preorders of THE FARM ready to ship now. They should ship from our distributor in about 7-10 days, long before the official Amazon pub date of May 19. Grab yours now: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-farm-198...

Saw an impressive display of @valancourtbooks.bsky.social today, too

All the king's horses and all the king's men seem to finally have our website working again. So please feel free to saunter over there and order a book or two!

We're having ongoing website problems. If you navigate to this link, it should still work (without the "s" in the https:// URL): www.valancourtbooks.com. We're trying to restore full functionality.

Yahoo Business has done something to screw up our website. You may see an error message, or a version of our site from 2014. We're trying to get it fixed. Sigh.

Moments before he was ripped to shreds, Edgar vaguely recalled having seen that same obnoxious tie earlier in the day.

What can you do with an English major? How about taking ownership of a beloved independent bookstore and ensuring it continues serving the community. Power to these UVA students! news.virginia.edu/content/stud...

Weird nuns, explicit sex, an eerie tower in overgrown woodland. A neat reissue of Bernard Taylor’s classic tale of the occult, 1970s style, courtesy of @valancourtbooks.bsky.social. Ideal snapshot of an old school horror writer in peak form. Full review: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2023/08/orde...

A rabbi’s son is murdered by a street gang, only for the killers themselves to be murdered afterwards by a hulking, superstrong assailant. Could it be the mythical golem? Crammed with engrossing cabalistic detail and rising to moments of high nightmare. Quality repub by @valancourtbooks.bsky.social

Up for preorder, a new reprint of Hilda Lewis's THE WITCH AND THE PRIEST (1956), which Dennis Wheatley called "one of the best novels I have ever read about witchcraft." Not available in UK/Commonwealth due to rights restrictions. www.valancourtbooks.com/the-witch-an...

Reminder that we have two great $2.99 deals running on Kindle now! Grab these through the end of the month!

This’ll Make Things a Little Easier by Attila Veres, tr from the Hungarian by the author @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Veres is back with a follow-up collection of unforgettable cosmic horror. www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

If you’re the malicious type and want to make us scream, send us an email telling us to reprint the works of Author X, whose books we’ve been publishing for a decade.

Henrico County’s musical history includes the remarkable rise of Thomas Jefferson “Tommy” Edwards, a singer and songwriter whose smooth vocals carried him from Central Virginia to the top of the national charts. www.henricocitizen.c... #CitizenBlackHistorySpotlight

Big #HorrorForLibraries giveaway today. 3 books filled with stories for 3 winners. All finished copies that can be added to your collections. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @valancourtbooks.bsky.social and @ericjguignard.bsky.social for the books. raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2026/02/horr...

Over on the Head Full of Horror blog, a new review makes the case for Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART as a good, unconventional Valentine's Day read: aheadfullofhorror.com/sweetheart-s...

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals are live! Grab Brian Moore's magical realist classic THE GREAT VICTORIAN COLLECTION or James Blish's blackly funny occult gem BLACK EASTER, both available at a bargain price all month long on Kindle!

They don’t make them like this anymore. An obsessive gothic ghost story full of possession. 📚🩸 Available from the wonderful people at @valancourtbooks.bsky.social.

Loved this so much. Didn’t think it could be as good as The Black Maybe. And it isn’t. It’s better!

Anyone get their copy of THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER yet & start reading? Paperbacks and hardcovers are available on our site NOW! "An impressive follow up to The Black Maybe. Veres just keeps getting better and better."--Brian Evenson www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

It's just SO GOOD. My review of Attila Veres's This'll Make Things a Little Easier, tr by the author, from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social; www.sfintranslation.com?p=16278 #SFinTranslation from Hungary

The first three Goodreads reviews for Attila Veres's new book are all 5-star! Great to see that folks are loving the book as much as we do. Haven't got yours yet? Grab a copy on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-.... Or available on Amazon in late March.

Mothman has always been queer af. I'm just glad he's out of the closet. flagsforgood.com/collections/...

[January 30th, 1946] "Ailanthus Branch in Winter" by Charles E. Burchfield

Well, the two Veres stories I've read so far should each win multiple genre awards. Veres is an absolute gem, and I'm not even a big horror fan. But I'll read anything this man writes. Hungarian #SFinTranslation @valancourtbooks.bsky.social

Luigi Musolino's A DIFFERENT DARKNESS, a 2022 release from us and a World Fantasy Award finalist, is coming in a new limited edition from Earthling Publications, limited to 235 copies. (Paperbacks & ebooks still available from us.) Check it out here: www.earthlingpub.com/lm_different...

#BooksOf2026 No.8 This’ll Make Things A Little Easier - Stories by Attila Veres

Anyone get their copy of THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER yet & start reading? Paperbacks and hardcovers are available on our site NOW! "An impressive follow up to The Black Maybe. Veres just keeps getting better and better."--Brian Evenson www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Brrrr! This is the coldest we've ever seen it in Virginia, and they're saying the power may go out for days. Stay warm and safe, everybody. And if you're out of reading material, make sure to download something to your e-reader *before* the power goes out!

Excited to get a pair of @valancourtbooks.bsky.social titles in the mail today. I loved the Veres story I’ve read and am excited to read more. And the other book has a Bora Chung story! ♥️ #booksky

@valancourtbooks.bsky.social makes global & classic horror lit affordably accessible to today's readers, and their books are gorgeous! Just arrived: @attilaveres.bsky.social's critically acclaimed THE BLACK MAYBE and his new collection THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER! Hard-hitting weird lit 👊💥

I've had enough.

$2.99 Kindle deals now through 1/31, worldwide! Philip Ridley's IN THE EYES OF MR FURY is a brilliant magical realist LGBT epic, while Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART has been called one of the best horror novels ever written.

$2.99 Kindle deals now through 1/31, worldwide! Philip Ridley's IN THE EYES OF MR FURY is a brilliant magical realist LGBT epic, while Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART has been called one of the best horror novels ever written.

This is a great time to invest your money in independent publishers who make marginalized voices a priority. @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸

The 2nd English-language collection by Hungarian Attila Veres - THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER - follows his critically acclaimed THE BLACK MAYBE. Highly compelling weird lit. Drops Mar 24 from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social who also carries BLACK MAYBE. www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Thankyou past me! I completely forgot I pre-ordered this 😁 @valancourtbooks.bsky.social

Most anticipated book of the year? The latest from Attila Veres, whose essential @valancourtbooks.bsky.social collection The Black Maybe kickstarted my horror jones

[January 6th, 1946] Pastor Martin Niemöller delivered a pivotal sermon to representatives of the Confessing Church in Frankfurt.

A couple of new $2.99 Kindle deals are live worldwide! Grab Philip Ridley's LGBT magical-realist epic IN THE EYES OF MR FURY, or Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART, one of the best ghost novels ever written. Now thru 1/31 only on Kindle.

Have we told you lately just how badass @wordhorde.bsky.social & their namesake brick & mortar @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social are? We are eternally grateful for everyone who bets on us. Bookstores, we’re tellin ya: put us on your shelves, & we will sell🖤☠️

"At once startling and merciless, THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER is unafraid to take us into a very strange territory that keeps opening up into spaces weirder and stranger still. An impressive follow up to THE BLACK MAYBE. Veres just keeps getting better and better." - Brian Evenson

Book #1 of 2026 A Scent of New-mown hay by John Blackburn. Odd movements by the Soviet Union have an unusual cause, and what appears to be Cold War intrigue is actually a threat to all of humanity. Thanks to @valancourtbooks.bsky.social for reprinting this terrific book!

After Christmas sale! Get a Mystery Box with three random titles for just $25, over 50% off list price! These may include horror, literary, thriller, 18th/19th c. Gothic, Paperbacks from Hell, who knows! www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

Sue Ellen aka Swing Shift Sue has been with us for a year as of today. 💝

Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER won't go on sale officially for several months, but we expect website preorders to ship very soon. This is the follow-up to the Stoker finalist THE BLACK MAYBE, which earned comparisons to Ligotti and Barker. www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...