Indie/horror/LGBT/classics. 2021 HWA Specialty Press Award. 'Valancourt's publications may be just what you're looking for.' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
We have two $2.99 ebook specials available on Kindle for the rest of May: John Blackburn's '70s chiller OUR LADY OF PAIN and Margaret Tabor's Twilight Zone-style UNITY PENFOLD. Grab either or both on Kindle worldwide at a bargain price.
Postcard From The Past
Celebrating today, as we do every year, the birthday of Michael McDowell (1950-1999), who would have been 76 today. Sadly he is not still with us, but fortunately his great books still are. Read and cherish them, and if you haven't read them, now is a good time!
We're in the process of submitting all the preorders of this one to our distributor for fulfillment. So if you preordered it, look for yours to arrive within about two weeks. This is a chilling novel of domestic horror that you won't want to miss. www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...
Paul Giamatti gives us a shout out in this Youtube interview. I think it's always fun when you find out that a famous person is also really cool and has great reading taste.
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I feel like this book represents today's theme, which has been an unending series of aggravations, not least of which is that someone sent us a package of books via UPS to our PO Box, resulting in their apparently being irretrievably lost in the ether (or maybe jealously guarded by UPS' AI chatbot).
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365 Days of Short Stories: Day 58
Transistor by Attila Veres
In poverty-stricken Hungary a girl and her family settle into an awful life of experimental servitude, but the girl develops psychic powers and rises slightly higher in the torturous bureaucracy.
Rating: 5/5
Fuck. This was a very
I love the high you get from reading a really good story!
Transistor by Attila Veres (in the collection This'll make things a little easier from Valancourt books) is proof that fantastic literature really is a mind expanding drug.
365 Days of Short Stories: Day 64
The Designated Contact Individual by Attila Veres
A sales representative for a soft drink company is transported to an alien world where he tries to sell soda to gods of cosmic horror.
Rating: 5/5
Gah, this was fucked up, but very good. Elements of the first two
Attila Veres's _The Black Maybe_. Veres is not Lovecraft's heir or anything so paltry--he takes cosmic and weird horror and fully buries Lovecraft under the sheer force of his imagination. I've never been so delightfully unsettled.
I saw others mention Not a Speck of Light and that's great too!
