Valancourt Books: 178 books

Cover of Hadrian the Seventh
by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

“It is extraordinarily alive … The book remains a clear and definite book of our epoch, not to be swept aside.” – D.H. Lawrence “One of the most extraordinary achievements in English literature.” – A.J.A. Symons “Frederick Rolfe alias Baron Corvo is certainly one of the...
Cover of Neither Man Nor Dog
by Gerald Kersh
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015

This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic Night and the City(1938)...
Cover of Blow the House Down
by John Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018

The year is 1969, and in the British city of Randelwyck, racial tensions are simmering, the situation made worse by an acute housing shortage. Legendary architect Sir George Strand has a solution: two new state-of-the-art high-rise apartment towers linked by walkway bridges, symbolizing the bridging...

Gog

Cover of Gog

Gog

by Andrew Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015

A seven-foot-tall man washes up naked on the Scottish coast with no memory of his past and no clue to his identity except the words "Gog" and "Magog" tattooed on his knuckles. Knowing only that he must somehow get to London, he sets off on foot on a four hundred mile journey across...
Cover of Julian Grant Loses His Way
by Claude Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

"Claude Houghton's novels are always interesting . . . Julian Grant Loses His Way is the best book of his that I have read . . . Houghton's talent is at its best." - Graham Greene, The Spectator "Fascinating, absorbing reading . . . an arresting book." - Kirkus Reviews "He...
Cover of Stories of the Strange and Sinister
by Frank Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

Sadly neglected today, Frank Baker (1908-1983) was an intriguing and highly original author of fantasy and horror fiction, best known for his post-apocalyptic novel of an avian attack, The Birds (1936), which may have been an influence on Hitchcock's film, and Miss Hargreaves (1940), a classic...
Cover of A Dream of Wessex
by Christopher Priest
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks. Trying to find solutions to today's problems, Julia Stretton and other specialists at the Wessex Project have created a virtual reality projection of a utopian future where all current issues...
Cover of Wicked Stepmother
by Michael McDowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million...
Cover of A Short Walk in Williams Park
by C.H.B. Kitchin, L.P. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

Francis Norton is an elderly bachelor who enjoys nothing better than spending a warm day outside in one of London's parks. When one afternoon he innocently overhears the earnest conversation of two young lovers, Edward and Mirrie, whose relationship is complicated by Edward's unhappy marriage to a...
Cover of Mr Nicholas
by Thomas Hinde
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016

Mr Nicholas is a devastating study of the domestic horrors of English suburbia, personified by the Nicholas family and its snobbish patriarch, a petty tyrant whose greatest pleasure is to sip gin while bullying and arguing with his beleaguered wife and three sons, 'intellectual, ineffectual' Peter,...
Cover of A Book of the Dead
by John Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

When a veteran book dealer pays an exorbitant sum at auction for a copy of Men of Courage, a worthless book about famous heroic deeds, his colleagues believe he has lost his mind. But when he is found dead and the book goes missing, it appears something more sinister may be going on. In fact, someone...
Cover of The Great Wash
by Gerald Kersh
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015

Journalist George Oaks and his friend Albert Kemp, a mystery novelist, are on their way to meet their friend, the celebrated philosopher Dr. Monacelli. But when a clerical mix-up leads to their meeting the American gangster Monty Cello instead, Oaks and Kemp quickly find themselves caught up in a...
Cover of Sea of Glass
by Dennis Parry
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015

Old Mrs. Ellison doesn't have much longer to live, and her scheming son Cedric is counting the days until he inherits her fortune. But his plans are upset by the arrival of his niece Varvara, a beautiful and wild young woman from a remote Chinese region known as the 'Sea of Glass', a strange land...
Cover of The Third Grave
by David Case
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019

When archaeologist Thomas Ashley is invited to remote Devonshire by Lucian Mallory to examine and decipher millennia-old papyrus scrolls, he is unable to resist the offer, despite knowing of Mallory’s sinister and unsavory reputation. The scrolls, retrieved from an ancient necropolis, purportedly...
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