num_pages: 292
description: 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 late 18th century all the way to the early 21st. In this second volume of rare horror stories the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fourteen tales  all by Valancourt authors  for this new collection spanning two centuries of horror. This volume features a previously unpublished ghost story by Nevil Shute a brand-new tale by award-winning author Stephen Gregory and twelve other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted. In this volume you will encounter tales of ghosts haunted houses witchcraft possession demonic pacts and ancient nameless horrors. Stories of the weird and macabre of a man tormented by an age-old evil a corpse returned from the dead a brutal killer with a shocking secret a contraption with the power to trap its victims eternally inside a nightmare. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly humorous by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats this is a horror anthology like no other. Features stories by: Mary Elizabeth Braddon  John Buchan  R. Chetwynd-Hayes  Isabel Colegate  Basil Copper  Thomas De Quincey  Stephen Gregory  Michael McDowell  John Metcalfe  Beverley Nichols  Nevil Shute  Bernard Taylor  Russell Thorndike  Robert Westall
language: English
title: The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
publisher: Valancourt Books