The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories Volume Three

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 This volume features a previously unpublished contributions by Steve Rasnic Tem Eric C. Higgs and Hugh Fleetwood as well as thirteen other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted.In this volume you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 grandfathers 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.