The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One

8 best books like The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One (James D. Jenkins): Burnt Offerings, The Other, The Elementals, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, Toplin, The World of Lore: Dreadful Places, The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, Childgrave

Burnt Offerings

Author	Robert Marasco
ISBN	0440009286

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved...

The Other

Author	Thomas Tryon
ISBN	0440167361

Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.

Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...

The Elementals

Author	Michael McDowell
ISBN	0380783606

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty...except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid...

Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Author	Grady Hendrix
ISBN	1594749817

Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!

Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.

Where did they come from? Where did they go?...

Toplin

Author	Michael McDowell
ISBN	2739600100

A nameless, paranoid narrator, compelled by mysterious warnings and sourceless messages, sets out to kill a deformed waitress whom he feels wants to die. With every revelation of the narrator's bizarre lifestyle and unusual acquaintances, the reader is less sure of what can be believed, until the...

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places

Author	Aaron Mahnke
ISBN	1524798029

Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore--now a streaming television series--including "Echoes," "Withering Heights," and "Behind Closed Doors" as well as rare material.

Sometimes you walk into a room, a building,...

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

Author	Robert Westall
ISBN	0374471193

4.5 stars!

Originally published back in 1991, the title novella is one creepy story about a steeplejack working on the towers and steeple of Muncaster Cathedral. This edition also contains the story "Brangwyn Gardens", which is entirely new to American audiences.

Joe Clarke wondered...

Childgrave

Author	Ken Greenhall
ISBN	0671421611

CHILDGRAVE is a beautifully written quiet horror story, with a sketchy small town lurking in the background. By the time the secrets of the town are revealed, it's too late for the reader to turn back.

As I get older, I find myself more and more drawn to quiet horror. I can do without gore and torture...