Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted. Table of Contents Foreword by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Aunty Green by John Blackburn Miss Mack by Michael McDowell School Crossing by Francis King A Psychological Experiment by Richard Marsh The Progress of John Arthur Crabbe by Stephen Gregory The Frozen Man by John Trevena California Burning by Michael Blumlein Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley Out of Sorts by Bernard Taylor The Head and the Hand by Christopher Priest The Ghost of Charlotte Cray by Florence Marryat The Grim White Woman by M. G. Lewis The Terror on Tobit by Charles Birkin Furnished Apartments by Forrest Reid Something Happened by Hugh Fleetwood The Tarn by Hugh Walpole The Gentleman All in Black by Gerald Kersh

Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the late 18th century all the way to the early 21st. In this second volume of rare horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fourteen tales – all by Valancourt authors – for this new collection spanning two centuries of horror. This volume features a previously unpublished ghost story by Nevil Shute, a brand-new tale by award-winning author Stephen Gregory, and twelve other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted. In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, possession, demonic pacts, and ancient, nameless horrors. Stories of the weird and macabre, of a man tormented by an age-old evil, a corpse returned from the dead, a brutal killer with a shocking secret, a contraption with the power to trap its victims eternally inside a nightmare. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly humorous, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Features stories by: Mary Elizabeth Braddon • John Buchan • R. Chetwynd-Hayes • Isabel Colegate • Basil Copper • Thomas De Quincey • Stephen Gregory • Michael McDowell • John Metcalfe • Beverley Nichols • Nevil Shute • Bernard Taylor • Russell Thorndike • Robert Westall

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the past 250 years. In this third volume of horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and one macabre poem) – all by Valancourt authors – for this new collection featuring horror from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This volume features previously unpublished contributions by Steve Rasnic Tem, Eric C. Higgs, and Hugh Fleetwood, as well as thirteen other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted. ​ In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, black magic, monsters, demonic babies, and vengeful spirits. Stories of the strange and sinister, of a boy who unwisely disobeys his grandfather's warning never to go up the stairs, a man whose apparently irrational terror of fire proves all too justified, an unpopular man who discovers a shocking new way of making friends, an ancestor who exerts a chilling influence from beyond the grave. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly humorous, by a lineup of authors that includes both well-known masters of horror fiction and acclaimed authors of literary fiction, this is a horror anthology like no other. Table of Contents Foreword by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Don't Go Up Them Stairs (1971) by R. Chetwynd-Hayes Courage (1918/1941) by Forrest Reid Pete Barker's Shanty (1898) by Ernest G. Henham The Parts Man (2018) by Steve Rasnic Tem The Face in the Mirror (1903) by Helen Mathers The Life of the Party (2013) by Charles Beaumont The Poet Gives His Friend Wildflowers (2018) by Hugh Fleetwood Monkshood Manor (1954) by L. P. Hartley Blood of the Kapu Tiki (2018) by Eric C. Higgs On No Account, My Love (1955) by Elizabeth Jenkins Underground (1974) by J. B. Priestley Mr Evening (1968) by James Purdy Mothering Sunday (1960) by John Keir Cross The Bottle of 1912 (1961) by Simon Raven “With What Measure Ye Mete . . .” (1906) by Ethel Lina White Beelzebub (1992) by Robert Westall

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has unearthed and republished almost 500 lost and neglected works from the 1760s through the 2000s, and now for this long-awaited fourth volume of the acclaimed Valancourt Book of Horror Stories series, the editors of Valancourt Books are proud to present 15 more great horror tales—all by Valancourt authors—from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This volume features five brand new stories that have never appeared elsewhere, two rare foreign stories translated to English for the first time, and eight more scarce and seldom-seen tales. The stories in this volume will take you inside the vivid dreams of a woman who can kill in her sleep; to the set of a reality show where contestants may be transformed into specimens of beauty—or into freak show monsters; to a hotel where guests are besieged by a powerful hurricane—and by something even more terrible and deadly. You will read of the bizarre and macabre adventures of a man seeking a skeleton in 1960s London as a gift for his medical student cousin—and his quest's shocking outcome. You will learn how a simple grammar mistake can lead to a terrible and untimely end for a traveler in Venice. These are strange, sinister, and scary stories, by turns suspenseful, horrific, and darkly humorous. Featuring a lineup of rarely reprinted classic tales together with new stories destined to become future classics, this collection is a horror anthology like no other. Table of Contents The Family at Fenhouse (1860) by Eliza Lynn Linton The Gentleman from America (1924) by Michael Arlen The Coffin Procession (1925; trans. 2020) by Felix Timmermans Time-Fuse (1931) by John Metcalfe The Fury (1936) by Robert M. Coates Rain and Gaslight (1945; trans. 2020) by Hubert Lampo A Scent of Mimosa (1975) by Francis King The Other Room (1982) by Lisa Tuttle 'Happy Birthday, Dear Alex' (1965) by John Keir Cross Vivid Dreams (2020) by Elizabeth Engstrom Let's Make a Face (2020) by John Peyton Cooke Conversations with the Departed (2020) by Steve Rasnic Tem Rain (2020) by Garrett Boatman The Poet Lewis Bowden Has Died (2020) by Stephen Gregory plus one more story to be announced soon!