Valancourt Books discussion

Jamie wrote: "I just finished reading Catherine M Verschoyle’s 1927 novel Oldham which is pretty obscure but amazingly good and definitely worth bringing back into print. It’s a kind of psychological horror with..."

I'll take a look at it. Thank you!

Doug wrote: "I've been doing a deep dive into the books of Simon Raven and recently bought your editions of his The Feathers of Death and Doctors Wear Scarlet. Any..."

We're thinking of reprinting Brother Cain. It could be a release later this year.

This site (http://www.tartaruspress.com/database...) mostly lists books worth reading that have been long out of print. I have slowly (and expensively) been acquiring them from the used book market. I would be thrilled if Valancourt could republish some, one, or any, of these!

One of my favorite finds (for under $10 in 2017) off this list is The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan. It really is a treasure.

I just finished The Hollow Skin by Virginia Swain, and came here to see if it had been suggested. I think it's been out of print since its publication in 1938, and it's a wonderful Gothic/horror novel set in the Bahamas. It seems like it's ripe for Valancourt to reprint!

Valancourt Books wrote: "Doug wrote: "I've been doing a deep dive into the books of Simon Raven and recently bought your editions of his The Feathers of Death and [book:Doctors Wear Scarlet|5..."

Thank you so much! Will be on the lookout for it! Raven is so terrific!

PS - just saw you are reprinting Raven's Islands of Sorrow also! YAY!

The book I would most like to see back in print and that I would happily pay $40 for a reprint copy of?

J. Cecil Maby (1902-1971)
By Stygian Waters

Maby was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but moved to Britain during his childhood. His fiction was written from within a background of belief in the supernatural.

The book was published in 1933 and never republished. It is a collection of six short stories only 158 pages long. (In case anyone does not know, "Stygian" is the adjectival form of the River Styx, that mythical river over which the dead are ferried.)

Publisher: The Houghton Publishing Co. (London), 1933
Includes:
"The Elimination of Joseph Fisher"
"The Caretaker"
"The Douglas Fir"
"The Metamorphosis"
"Return of Roderick St. John"
"The Artist's Mother"

Copies of this book start at $1,000 and go up from there.

If you are able to reprint it, please find some way to include the original cover. It's really cool:

Having bought and read your three Martyn Goff gay-themed reprints, any chance you might also do his fourth and final one: Tar and Cement?

Doug wrote: "Having bought and read your three Martyn Goff gay-themed reprints, any chance you might also do his fourth and final one: Tar and Cement?"

Nope! I don't think we'll be able to take more of his on.

Valancourt Books wrote: "Doug wrote: "Having bought and read your three Martyn Goff gay-themed reprints, any chance you might also do his fourth and final one: Tar and Cement?"

Nope! I don't think we'll be..."

Ok thanx - I was able to locate it online - keep up the good work! Love what you do!

Hope you're not getting sick of me, but I have three more suggestions for OOP early gay novels to consider reprinting:

The Divided Path
The Night Air
The Invisible Glass

Thanx!

"Un'ombra nell'ombra" by Pier Carpi

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Carpi


https://www.mattatoio5.com/horror/13-...

Have you considered more from John Metcalfe after The Feasting Dead?
His short stories are woefully out of print now that Ash-Tree Press is no more. All that is available is one POD of some random stories.

And speaking of out of print Ash-Tree Press authors, there is also A.M. Burrage, H.R. Wakefield, Arthur Quiller-Couch and Margery Lawrence to consider.
All considered masters of the supernatural short story in their own way, but woefully underrepresented in the affordable physical format. The only options are shoddy POD collections or hugely expensive second hand copies of the Ash-Tree Press titles.

H.A. Manhood is another author who has fallen into obscurity and deserves better representation in book form.
His short story collections are long out of print. Sundial Press were due to issue all of them but they are now out of business.
His work is enigmatic, folkloric with a semi-mythic aspect. Would chime well with fans of Robert Aickman, William Sansom etc
The collections Nightseed and Apples by Night are possibly the best options to consider.

Thanks