Valancourt Books have announced a new series of 20th Century Classics, which includes quite a few reprints of rare ghostly, supernatural or fantastic novels. Titles lined up include I Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton, introduced by Michael Dirda; a range of volumes by John Blackburn; The Witch and the Priest by Hilda Lewis; The Hand of Kornelius Voyt by Oliver Onions; He Arrived At Dusk by R.C. Ashby; and Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser. The books will all be reset and have new introductions. The list looks like it will prove a good opportunity to read some fine, hard-to-find, but neglected work, and I'm pleased to be involved with introductions for some of them.
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I'm glad to see that HE ARRIVED AT DUSK will be reissued. But it's not a genuine ghost story. The supernatural content is rationalized. It's a fantastic detective novel all the same. I will defintley be purchasing some of the other titles. Most of my Gothic library is made up of Valancourt reissues. They do very fine work.
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ReplyDeletethanks for the news. As a Ghost Stories lover. I'm sharing my own. My house is built over some type of buried people kinda in a river bed and i hear bumping im my house alot. I think they r nice it think. i leave things for them to move and they do... i think we are living in peace... im home alon alot and we live in harmony :) sometimes i hear things thumping up and down the stairs... its SO COOL! :D
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