Happy 2011!
No way….has it really been since February 2010 that we posted last? Time flies!
Well, Happy New Year everyone! We’re looking forward to another great year here at Valancourt Books.
Our first order of business is to get caught up on all the manuscripts that have been sitting here seemingly forever, waiting to be published. So in the first quarter of 2011, expect to see, finally, Karen Morton’s scholarly work on Eliza Parsons and Sarah Maier’s edition of Bram Stoker’s Lady of the Shroud (1909).
Also coming soon will be Francis Lathom’s very rare 1807 historical Gothic novel The Fatal Vow, or, St. Michael’s Monastery, with an introduction and notes by Max Fincher and new editions of Thomas De Quincey’s Klosterheim, or, The Masque (1832) and Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal.
Further down the road for 2011, we have all kinds of exciting books under contract. For Gothic fans, there’s a new edition of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest and the rare Vaults of Lepanto by T. R. Tuckett, as well as the brilliant parody The Hero, or Adventures of a Night, translated by Matthew “Monk” Lewis’s sister, and edited by Natalie Neill, who previously edited Love and Horror for Valancourt Books.
And a New Year’s resolution: we’ll try to post more than one blog entry this year! But if you want to keep up with our daily nefarious doings, check us out on Facebook, which is updated much more frequently!
January 7, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for updating this blog. I’m really looking forward to Johnstone’s “Chrysal”, after reading a bit about it. I enjoy 18th century satire, and fondly remember reading Defoe and Swift in college. By the way, I saw your Facebook challenge. As I’m not officially on Facebook, I’ll give my unofficial guesses here: 2nd best seller–The Castle of Wolfenbach; worst seller–The White Shield. Keep up the great work. I love Valancourt Books.
January 7, 2011 at 10:29 pm
You’re very, very close on the worst seller. I’m sorry to see Mitford’s books sell so poorly, since they are really very enjoyable. And Castle of Wolfenbach is a perennially solid seller for us, but not the #2 book this year….
May 15, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Thanks for resurrecting Mr. Mitford from oblivion. I finally got around to reading “The King’s Assegai” and “The White Shield”–both brilliant–and I ordered “The Induna’s Wife” this evening through Amazon. I’m addicted to Bertram Mitford. I’ve read 15 of his novels over the past six months. Currently, I’m reading “War and Arcadia”. Like “Golden Face”, it’s a Western with Englishmen.