The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume Two
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Publisher Description
Critics called the first Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories "groundbreaking" (Publishers Weekly), "stellar from top to bottom" (Library Journal), "pioneering" (Washington Post), "a veritable feast for horror lovers" (British Fantasy Society). Now for this exciting follow-up volume the editors have expanded their search to even more countries, finding more of the world's best horror fiction and making it available to American readers for the first time.
Featuring a wide variety of tales from Brazil to Malta to Nigeria to Japan, and all points in between, this new anthology is a must-have for any horror fan or anyone interested in contemporary world literature.
Included in this volume are some of the world's best horror writers, many of them unknown in the English-speaking world:
Luciano Lamberti, 'The Nature of Love' (Argentina)
Roberto Causo, 'Train of Consequences' (Brazil)
Braulio Tavares, 'Screamer' (Brazil)
Yavor Tsanev, 'The Recording of the Will' (Bulgaria)
Zhang Yueran, 'Whitebone Spirit' (China)
Teddy Vork, 'The Wonders of the Invisible World' (Denmark)
Indrek Hargla, 'The Grain Dryer of Tammõküla' (Estonia)
Mélanie Fazi, 'Dreams of Ash' (France)
Konstantinos Kellis, 'Firstborn' (Greece)
Gary Victor, 'Lucky Night' (Haiti)
Steinar Bragi, 'The Bell' (Iceland)
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, 'Shelter from the Storm' (India)
Stephan Friedman, 'The Pallid Eidolon" (Israel)
Yasumi Tsuhara, 'The Old Wound and the Sun' (Japan)
Anton Grasso, 'The Ant' (Malta)
Dare Segun Falowo, 'Owolabi Olowolagba' (Nigeria)
Wojciech Gunia, 'The War' (Poland)
Ana María Fuster Lavín, 'Footsteps of Hunger' (Puerto Rico)
Val Votrin, 'The Regensburg Festival' (Russia)
Bora Chung, 'Mask' (South Korea)
Viola Cadruvi, 'The Runner' (Switzerland)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jenkins and Cagle return with another groundbreaking anthology of 21 contemporary international horror shorts, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Though sometimes uneven, the selection shines in its diversity of styles, subgenres, and countries of origin, from Indian weird fiction (Jayaprakash Satyamurthy's "Shelter from the Storm") to Argentinian body horror (Luciano Lamberti's "The Nature of Love"). While serving as a testament to the cross-cultural foundation of human fear, the anthology's at its best illuminating specific cultural contexts that shape nightmares, as in stories with political angles, like Haitian author Gary Victor's "Lucky Night" and Polish author Wojciech Gunia's "The War," and those grounded in a strong sense of place, such as Nigerian author Dare Segun Falowo's "Owolabi Olowolagba" and Icelander Steinar Bragi's "The Bell." Other standouts include the dreamily romantic and viscerally bloody "Whitebone Spirit" from Chinese author Zhang Yueran, and Greek author Konstantinos Kellis's chilling domestic tale, "Firstborn." Though not as consistently strong as the first volume, this compilation still stands to become a must-have for horror fans: it's frequently mysterious, sometimes grotesque, and occasionally set-the-book-down scary.
