No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. I t was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. Each book will feature a brand-new introduction written specially for this edition by either Hendrix or Errickson. All five titles will be available for a limited time in a special mass-market size format, and in some cases will feature their original glorious paperback cover art. The avian-themed entries also include tales like ‘To Catch a Thief’, in which a series of inexplicable thefts is revealed to have an unexpected culprit and ‘The Blackbird’s Song’, in which a celebrated flute player whose career was cut short by an accident rediscovers music after a visit from a blackbird.įrom the pages of Grady Hendrix's best-selling Paperbacks from Hell(Quirk Books, 2017), Valancourt Books is pleased to announce a new limited series of five long-unavailable paperback horror gems from the '70s and '80s, chosen by Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson ( Too Much Horror Fiction). But not all of the tales in this book are horror stories.

Included in this volume are the ghost stories ‘The Late Mr Lewis’ and ‘The Boys Who Wouldn’t Wake Up’ as well as the macabre ‘The Cormorant’, which provided the inspiration for Gregory’s classic novel of the same name.

In his tales of death and madness the menace usually comes not from the supernatural, but from the natural, and particularly birds, which in Gregory’s fiction often bring terror on their dark wings. Over the past four decades, few writers have created a body of work as distinctive – or disturbing – as Stephen Gregory’s. Now available! This first-ever collection of the author’s short fiction brings together a rich and varied assortment of fourteen tales, including several never before reprinted, four previously unpublished early tales, and two new stories written specially for this volume.

The Tribe by Grady Hendrix