[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-...

Bernard Taylor (1934, Swindon, Inglaterra) será el segundo autor que publicaremos en Pánico Books. 💀 Maestro del horror psicológico, el suspense y el drama gótico, vamos a recuperar la que es considerada —con toda la razón— como una de las 100 mejores novelas de terror de la historia.

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you had a festive and joyous holiday (and that Santa brought you all the Valancourt books on your list!)

My Valancourt Christmas!

It's a very @criterion.bsky.social and @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Christmas (I also got shirts, and shipping was delayed on NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Kathryn can't remember which one, I want both)).

First Peacetime Christmas in 4 Years 🎄 Richmond Times-Dispatch today in 1945

“Let me rest” book recommendations for slow winter reading. Full list in the Alt text

Anybody reading (or rereading) one of our Victorian Christmas Ghost titles this year? It's probably too late for us to get them to you by Christmas, but there are ebook versions available on Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and iTunes for immediate reading.

Most stuff ordered on our site will not arrive by Xmas. However, we do have our 3 for $33 Mystery Boxes in stock and ready to ship, and you'd at least have a fighting chance of getting one in time for Xmas. A great way to build a Valancourt collection on the cheap! www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Also recommended are the six Victorian Christmas books from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Especially The Shrieking Skull by James Skipp Borlase (born in Cornwall fyi) 🩸📚 #weirdfiction #ghoststories

Now that we've translated the inscription to mean "Pray for the soul of Thomas Curties, may God have mercy on his soul," I'm wondering if this was the author's own copy and maybe he repented of writing trashy Gothic novels later in life and thought he was headed for Hell?

In today's mail, a Gothic novel of legendary scarcity, T.J. Horsley Curties's THE MONK OF UDOLPHO (1807), though sadly it's only vol. 4. Can anyone help with the inscription? I get that it says "Pray for the soul of Thomas Curties" and I see "God" and "Amen" but can't make out the rest.

Most stuff ordered on our site will not arrive by Xmas. However, we do have our 3 for $33 Mystery Boxes in stock and ready to ship, and you'd at least have a fighting chance of getting one in time for Xmas. A great way to build a Valancourt collection on the cheap! www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

30. The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, vol. 2 Horror authors from around the world, many of whom are published in English for the first time! These two volumes are favorites of mine

What's your favorite Christmas album? These three are in heavy rotation every December at Valancourt Towers.

RIP mass market paperbacks 😢 (Don’t worry, we’ll keep selling our mass market sized Paperbacks from Hell!)

What's your favorite Christmas album? These three are in heavy rotation every December at Valancourt Towers.

Another incredible shoutout! Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda includes TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN in his Christmas roundup @washingtonpost.com. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to horror, but I really enjoy Hungarian author Attila Veres's stories- the latter has a new collection coming out in January from Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social ! #SFinTranslation www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Our $2.99 Kindle deal for December is Anders Fager's SWEDISH CULTS, a collection of Lovecraftian tales from Sweden that we released a couple of years back. Grab it cheap here all month long: www.amazon.com/Swedish-Cult...

Our $2.99 Kindle deal for December is Anders Fager's SWEDISH CULTS, a collection of Lovecraftian tales from Sweden that we released a couple of years back. Grab it cheap here all month long: www.amazon.com/Swedish-Cult...

More new Paperbacks from Hell! Sandra Scoppettone's rare 1980 horror/thriller SUCH NICE PEOPLE is returning to print with a new intro by Grady Hendrix! Preorder now on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...

Doing the final readthrough of Attila Veres's new collection, which features six novelettes, and it is brilliant. If you haven't preordered, what are you waiting for? Website preorders may ship before the end of 2025, even though the pub. date isn't till 2026. www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Paperbacks from Hell are BACK! The next title, Richard Haigh's super-rare THE FARM (1984), is now up for preorder on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-farm-198... Website preorders should ship in the spring!

More new Paperbacks from Hell! Sandra Scoppettone's rare 1980 horror/thriller SUCH NICE PEOPLE is returning to print with a new intro by Grady Hendrix! Preorder now on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...

Paperbacks from Hell are BACK! The next title, Richard Haigh's super-rare THE FARM (1984), is now up for preorder on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-farm-198... Website preorders should ship in the spring!

Just got one of the dreaded emails from our printer with the subject line "Price Adjustment." Spoiler alert: the prices never adjust downwards. Somehow the whole thing is more ominous b/c the body of the email is blank and there's no attachment. As if the price hike is too high to put into words.

Our 30th anniversary rewatch of The X-Files continues. Tonight's episode aired December 1st, 1995.

Doing the final readthrough of Attila Veres's new collection, which features six novelettes, and it is brilliant. If you haven't preordered, what are you waiting for? Website preorders may ship before the end of 2025, even though the pub. date isn't till 2026. www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

So we're planning to publish this one as one of our new Paperbacks from Hell. Only the book is so scarce that we can't find a copy to scan for our text. If anyone has one to lend us, send us a message. We'll swap you some free Valancourt books for your trouble!

Wow, great care package of Norwegian weird & horror books just arrived, courtesy of @sheenalouisef.bsky.social! Norwegian books are super expensive and hard to access from the States, so I'm excited to get my hands on these. Perfect reading during these colder, shorter days.

Today's antique store vibe.

Our $2.99 Kindle deal is James Purdy's IN A SHALLOW GRAVE (1975), a novel by turns Gothic, mystical, and grotesque, and, like all of Purdy's works, a compelling read. Grab it cheap while this deal lasts: www.amazon.com/Shallow-Grav...

New audiobook! Robert Bloch's classic collection PLEASANT DREAMS (1960) is narrated by the always-excellent Matt Godfrey. If you're looking for a delightfully spooky listen, download it via Audible or iTunes now: www.amazon.com/Audible-Plea...

👁️ En 'Nuestra Señora del Dolor', John Blackburn escribió una novela que no da un momento de respiro y en la que mezcló elementos del thriller (la investigación del protagonista), la historia (la leyenda de la condesa sangrienta) y el horror puro. 🩸 Pero, ¿de qué va? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This article from Quietus on the best 25 horror books of the 21st century will definitely spark some debate. Some great books here, and a few I haven't read. But we're pleased to see Attila Veres's THE BLACK MAYBE at #3 on this list! thequietus.com/tq-charts/he...

Roger Sale, a fondly-remembered University of Washington professor, reviewed hundreds of novels in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1979, he selected 15 “Neglected Recent American Novels" for The American Scholar: neglectedbooks.com/?...

Today's spooky $2.99 Kindle deal is Archie Roy's DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS (1978), an undersung '70s haunted house novel that's made more interesting by the fact that the author was a famous scientist who also believed in the supernatural. Grab it cheap here today only: www.amazon.com/dp/B01M2V4RH...

And if you haven't read the book on which it was based, you should.👇

Today's $2.99 spooky Kindle deal is Charles Beaumont's A TOUCH OF THE CREATURE, featuring rare and previously unpublished tales by this great writer of weird fiction and screenwriter for The Twilight Zone: www.amazon.com/dp/B013YYKBQ...

If you want to continue the theme of early gothic vampire stories, I highly recommend ‘The Vampire of Vourla and other Greek Vampire Tales 1819-1846’, which includes Byron’s “Fragment” and Polidori’s longer story. Plus some fun history! 🩸📚💙

Today's spooky $2.99 Kindle deal is Thomas Cullinan's THE BEDEVILED, a creepy tale set in an Ohio farmhouse involving possession by the spirit of a Satanic Civil War general: www.amazon.com/dp/B07S41JSK...