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Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Ryan C @wartimefood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Season four tonight. 👽

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rainy day with not much going on, so here's #my9albums www.my9albums.com

9 album covers: For Squirrels - Baypath Rd; Bright Eyes - Lifted; Remy Zero - Villa Elaine; Cat Power - You Are Free; Arcade Fire - Funeral; Eels - Electro-Shock Blues; Deftones - White Pony; Black Lab - Your Body Above Me; R.E.M. - Reveal

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 29/09/2026

“C’mon, c’mon—it’s either one or the other.”

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 23/09/2026

Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks

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greg, "The Big Biscuit" @2x2l.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

cmon man

screenshot from hospital website reading:

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL
A Member of Covenant Health

Jacquelyn Hyde, MD

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE was incredibly hard to find but the good folks at @valancourtbooks.bsky.social have re-released it. It’s a great book. If you want to know more about it and it’s author Dave Wallis, l wrote a chapter about it for this book l coedited pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello again! If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course. Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

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The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool

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Ryan C @wartimefood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NW: Valley of the Zombies. It’s playing today in Richmond in 1946.

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Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still available: QUENEAU’S ALPHABET. A story for each house in this strange neighborhood, 26 tales in all. Folk horror, killer clowns, drunken Santas, Halloween terrors, ghosts, possessions, nightmares, nameless creatures, dark crimes, & one ancient, infamous vampire. www.amazon.com/Queneaus-Alp...

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Queneau's Alphabet

Queneau's Alphabet - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Queneau's Alphabet.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Whoever said that April was the cruellest month has never spent an August in Virginia. Ugh. Is it almost Halloween yet?

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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hard to be an old book lately, I tell you what. #sonnet

Harvest Me Like One Of Your Antique Books

Why preserve the rhythms of a mind
when buttons exist? For poetry, press red,
shade of trampled hearts. For novels, find
the one that’s blue as a hero newly dead.
Machines grow hungry: feed them iron ink,
chain-lined paper, stories built from days
of toil and boredom. (Gatekept dreams will shrink
a wallet, unlike the slop that clankers praise.)
Congested shelves can breathe at last, their freight
predestined for some better place, where coy
truth is barely a token. Musty weight
departs, mere offal for the worms to enjoy.
And now we have books—The Codex On Demand!—
with vistas fixed, unable to expand.

— John T. Glover

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@valancourtbooks.bsky.social THANK YOU for republishing McDowell. This is now the third book of his I’ve gotten from you, and am absolutely enthralled

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 20/07/2026

Top tip: if you're an admirer of the uncanny short story, Atilla Veres is an absolute *boss*. Valancourt Press has released two collections of his short stories and they're absolutely tremendous. I commend them to you.

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Page Turner Books @pageturnerbooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New @valancourtbooks.bsky.social order is in and on the shelves. The ratman notebooks is the book the 1973 movie 'Williard' (as well as the 2003 remake with Crispin Glover) is based on. Lots of awesome reprints with amazing covers in here. #booksky

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Our Instagram post got a lot of interest, so we thought we'd feature this here too. In Dave Wallis' '60s counterculture classic ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, all the adults commit suicide in a wave of existential ennui, leaving teenagers in charge of the world: www.valancourtbooks.com/only-lovers-...

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Only Lovers Left Alive (1964)

BOOK DETAILS Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1941147627 List Price: $16.99 U.S. Pages: 184 Published: 2015

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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please read this book. An essential American parable about how we sell our entire selves to the most charismatic of con men. I'll never forget the ending of this book, and deeply want to see a film audience grapple with it.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We're running a couple of great ebook deals over on Kindle! Just $2.99 for either of these fantastic titles, the perfect reads for these hot summer days.

Montage of two book covers: JOHN THE BALLADEER by Manly Wade Wellman and PROGENY OF THE ADDER by Leslie Whitten.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Quick roadtrip to West Virginia to the Flatwoods Monster Museum. Met up with Joe, a longtime friend of Valancourt, who I think was the very first person to order our books, way back in 2005.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Paul Giamatti gives us a shout out in this Youtube interview. I think it's always fun when you find out that a famous person is also really cool and has great reading taste.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Celebrating today, as we do every year, the birthday of Michael McDowell (1950-1999), who would have been 76 today. Sadly he is not still with us, but fortunately his great books still are. Read and cherish them, and if you haven't read them, now is a good time!

Cover: The Elementals by Michael McDowell

Cover: Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell

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Christina Ladd @christinaladd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Attila Veres's _The Black Maybe_. Veres is not Lovecraft's heir or anything so paltry--he takes cosmic and weird horror and fully buries Lovecraft under the sheer force of his imagination. I've never been so delightfully unsettled. I saw others mention Not a Speck of Light and that's great too!

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Che Gevurah @signalofnoise.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I love the high you get from reading a really good story! Transistor by Attila Veres (in the collection This'll make things a little easier from Valancourt books) is proof that fantastic literature really is a mind expanding drug.

Cover for the short story collection This'll make things a little easier by Attila Veres and published by Valancourt books. The black silhouette of a man falling upside down in front of concentric red circles. Above and below are mirrored city landscapes.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

365 Days of Short Stories: Day 58 Transistor by Attila Veres In poverty-stricken Hungary a girl and her family settle into an awful life of experimental servitude, but the girl develops psychic powers and rises slightly higher in the torturous bureaucracy. Rating: 5/5 Fuck. This was a very

A book cover for Attila Vere’s This’ll Make Things A Little Easier, with a black male silhouette falling over a red spiral background onto an illustrated cityscape.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

365 Days of Short Stories: Day 64 The Designated Contact Individual by Attila Veres A sales representative for a soft drink company is transported to an alien world where he tries to sell soda to gods of cosmic horror. Rating: 5/5 Gah, this was fucked up, but very good. Elements of the first two

The cover of Attila Veres’s This’ll Make Things A Little Easier, showing an illustration of a silhouetted man falling into a green town.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

We have two $2.99 ebook specials available on Kindle for the rest of May: John Blackburn's '70s chiller OUR LADY OF PAIN and Margaret Tabor's Twilight Zone-style UNITY PENFOLD. Grab either or both on Kindle worldwide at a bargain price.

Two book covers: OUR LADY OF PAIN by John Blackburn; UNITY PENFOLD by Margaret Tabor

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

We're in the process of submitting all the preorders of this one to our distributor for fulfillment. So if you preordered it, look for yours to arrive within about two weeks. This is a chilling novel of domestic horror that you won't want to miss. www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...

Book cover: Such Nice People by Sandra Scoppettone

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I feel like this book represents today's theme, which has been an unending series of aggravations, not least of which is that someone sent us a package of books via UPS to our PO Box, resulting in their apparently being irretrievably lost in the ether (or maybe jealously guarded by UPS' AI chatbot).

Book cover for "The Aggravations of Minnie Ashe"

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The perfect read for World Bee Day! Margaret O'Donnell's THE BEEHIVE (1980), a dystopian classic that deserves mention alongside Margaret Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE. If you missed this one when it came out (the sales figures suggest you did!), check it out: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-beehive-...

Book cover: The Beehive by Margaret O'Donnell

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/05/2026

“God, Collings, I hate to start a Monday with a case like this.”

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Reminder that we have a couple of $2.99 deals going on Kindle through the end of April!

Book covers for The Fungus and Fengriffen

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Reminder that we have a couple of $2.99 deals going on Kindle through the end of April!

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this one last night, a souvenir from Argento's store of the same name. And pleasantly surprised to find my Italian's now good enough to watch without subtitles.

Italian DVD of Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We love seeing our books appear in other countries! Here are some recent ones: Ken Greenhall's ELIZABETH (Portugal), Naomi A. Hintze's YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER & Robert Marasco's BURNT OFFERINGS (Spain), and Roy Fuller's FANTASY AND FUGUE (Italy). All, of course, still available in English on our site!

Book covers for four foreign editions of Valancourt Books titles

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Great to see that folks are enjoying Attila Veres's new book as much as we did! We fully expect some of these stories to appear in Year's Best volumes and on shortlists for award consideration. Don't miss out: grab a copy on our website! www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Screenshot from Goodreads showing 4.49 rating for Attila Veres's This'll Make Things a Little Easier

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Our fifth release by the great Lisa Tuttle is now up for preorder! LOST FUTURES (1992), originally part of the cutting-edge Dell Abyss line, is the story of a woman who suddenly finds herself living several lives simultaneously in different realities. www.valancourtbooks.com/lost-futures...

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Rue Morgue Magazine has a glowing review of Attila Veres's new THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER: "The book contains six tales ... and most should be serious contenders for awards this year ... You will laugh, cry, shiver, and beg for mercy. No mercy will be bestowed. This is first-rate horror!"

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Very sad news! We just learned that Valancourt author Thomas Tessier (RAPTURE, FINISHING TOUCHES, and THE NIGHTWALKER) passed away recently. We were honored to be able to republish those three classics of horror recently and are saddened to hear of his passing. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We've been keeping this one under wraps, but looks like the cat's out of the bag. Elizabeth Engstrom's '80s horror classic WHEN DARKNESS LOVES US is coming to the big screen next year! deadline.com/2026/04/emil...

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Emilia Clarke Movie 'When Darkness Loves Us' Acquired By Bleecker Street

Bleecker Street has taken most global territories to the James Ashcroft-directed horror film When Darkness Loves Us, starring Emilia Clarke.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New review of Attila Veres’ THIS’LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER over at Bloody Disgusting, check it out!

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New review of Attila Veres’ THIS’LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER over at Bloody Disgusting, check it out!

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PAUL FINCH @paulfinchauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Elaborate death scenes galore. Southern Gothic with a vicious edge. Richly atmospheric, elegantly written, fiendishly gory. Gross-out horror of the most entertaining sort. @valancourtbooks.bsky.social have pulled out a very gruesome plum. My review: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2023/05/gloa...

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