BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four

    (By James D. Jenkins)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 27 MB (27,086 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 668 times
    Last checked 14 Hour ago!
    Author James D. Jenkins
    “Book Descriptions: 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!”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Hell! Said the Duchess: A Bedtime Story

    ★★★★★

    Michael Arlen

    Book 1

    Harvest Home

    ★★★★★

    Thomas Tryon

    Book 1

    No Transfer

    ★★★★★

    Stephen Walton

    Book 1

    The Dead Hours of Night

    ★★★★★

    Lisa Tuttle

    Book 1

    The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

    ★★★★★

    Attila Veres

    Book 1

    Calamity Town / Dragon's teeth

    ★★★★★

    Ellery Queen

    Book 1

    The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

    ★★★★★

    Bernardo Esquinca

    Book 1

    The Lake of the Dead

    ★★★★★

    André Bjerke

    Book 1

    A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

    ★★★★★

    Luigi Musolino

    Book 1

    Fragments of Horror

    ★★★★★

    Junji Ito

    Book 1

    Gyo

    ★★★★★

    Junji Ito

    Book 1

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    ★★★★★

    Craig Davidson

    Book 1

    Burnt Offerings

    ★★★★★

    Robert Marasco

    Book 1

    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four

    ★★★★★

    Ellen Datlow

    Book 1

    Wylding Hall

    ★★★★★

    Elizabeth Hand