The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories
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Publisher Description
What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that?
For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. All the foreign-language stories in this book appear here in English for the first time, while the English-language entries from countries like the Philippines are appearing in print in the U.S. for the first time.
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This groundbreaking anthology of contemporary horror stories from around the world is an irrefutable testament to the international popularity of horror fiction as a form of literary expression. These 21 tales, most appearing in English for the first time, range in approach from the classic gothic (Spanish author Pilar Pedraza's "Mater Tenebrarum") to psychological horror (Hungarian Attila Veres's "The Time Remaining"), physical horror (Finn Marko Hautala's "Pale Toes"), quirky surrealism (Ecuadorian Solange Rodr guez Pappe's "Tiny Women), and dark absurdist satire (Dane Lars Ahm's "Donation"). Peruvian author Tanya Tynj l riffs on Greek myth in "The Collector" while Bathie Ngoye Thiam pulls from Senegalese folklore in "The House of Leuk Dawour" and Yvette Tan employs elements of Filipino legend in "All the Birds." Among the book's outstanding selections are Swedish author Anders Fager's "Backstairs," in which a psychotherapist horribly misinterprets the terrifying reality underlying a patient's dreams, and "Down, in Their World" by Romanian Flavius Ardelean, which translates the folk legends of Transylvania into a tale of subterranean nightmares. Jenkins and Cagle cast their net wide to cull stories that would distinguish any compilation in which they appeared. This book is a must for horror fans and the start of an exciting new series.
