The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories

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.

The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world:

Pilar Pedraza, 'Mater Tenebrarum' (Spain)

Flavius Ardelean, 'Down, in Their World' (Romania)

Anders Fager, 'Backstairs' (Sweden)

Tanya Tynjälä, 'The Collector' (Peru)

Frithjof Spalder, 'The White Cormorant' (Norway)

Jose María Latorre, 'Snapshots' (Spain)

Luigi Musolino, 'Uironda' (Italy)

Martin Steyn, 'Kira' (South Africa)

Attila Veres, 'The Time Remaining' (Hungary)

Lars Ahn, 'Donation' (Denmark)

Bernardo Esquinca, 'Señor Ligotti' (Mexico)

Cristina Fernández Cubas, 'The Angle of Horror' (Spain)

Christien Boomsma, 'The Bones in Her Eyes' (Netherlands)

Elisenda Solsona, 'Mechanisms' (Catalonia)

Michael Roch, 'The Illogical Investigations of Inspector André Despérine' (Martinique)

Solange Rodríguez Pappe, 'Tiny Women' (Ecuador)

Bathie Ngoye Thiam, 'The House of Leuk Dawour' (Senegal)

Marko Hautala, 'Pale Toes' (Finland)

Yvette Tan, 'All the Birds' (Philippines)

Ariane Gélinas, 'Twin Shadows' (Québec)

Flore Hazoumé, 'Menopause' (Ivory Coast)