REVIEWS
Since our inception in 2005, Valancourt's titles have been favorably reviewed in many mainstream and academic publications. The scholarly editions in our Gothic Classics and Valancourt Classics series are regularly featured in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, while our series of reprints of neglected 20th century fiction has gotten coverage in prestigious outlets such as The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and more.
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"If you're a real reader, one who looks beyond the bestseller list and the touted books of the moment, Valancourt's publications may be just what you're searching for." - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"We owe a debt of gratitude to the publisher Valancourt, whose aim is to resurrect some neglected works of literature, especially those incorporating a supernatural strand, and make them available to a new readership." - Times Literary Supplement
“Valancourt Books specializes in new editions of rare and sometimes almost entirely forgotten fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. These are not cheap reprints: the 'Classics' range comes annotated with scholarly introductions and, in some cases, contextualizing appendices. […] Valancourt Books is to be lauded for the scope of its ambition. It will spare scholars and the atmosphere many long-distance journeys to university and copyright libraries, and makes available to the lay enthusiast some curious marginalia from the history of the novel.” – The Times Literary Supplement, Gregory Norminton, Nov. 27, 2009
"Valancourt Books are fast becoming my favourite publisher. They have made it their business, with considerable taste and integrity, to put back into print a considerable amount of work which has been in serious need of republication. Their list has been compiled by editors who know their stuff, bringing back into the light a raft of books I, for one, have been waiting years to read! If you ever felt there were gaps in your reading experience or are simply frustrated that you can't find enough good, substantial fiction in the shops or even online, then this is the publisher for you!" -- Michael Moorcock
"[One] of the more important small presses [...] Valancourt Books makes available in attractive paperback editions fairly rare books from the late 18th century to the present. Here one can find the gothic classics that frightened the heroines of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, the works of Bram Stoker other than Dracula, many of Richard Marsh’s novels, starting with The Beetle, and some of THE stranger weird or decadent literature of the 1890s. How can you possibly go wrong with Florence Marryat’s 1897 The Blood of the Vampire, in which the heroine is the daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess?" -- Michael Dirda, The American Scholar, December 2012
“Valancourt Books are to be congratulated for the services they have rendered to the study of the Gothic. Many [books republished by Valancourt] exist in such small numbers that reading them would entail considerable expense, if not for the Valancourt editions. […] [E]dited, introduced, and annotated by highly respected scholars in the field. These are not reprints: all have been reset in readable type and are lovely objects in themselves.” – Prof. Robert Miles, University of Victoria, Eighteenth Century Fiction (2010)
“Valancourt Books of Kansas City, Missouri, in an era of shrinking, merging and vanishing imprints, has been rescuing once-popular late-Victorian titles largely out of print for years. […] Valancourt's attractive editions, paperback but sturdy and in large format, often employing the original cover art and enhanced by solid introductions and supplementary appendices, may revive some faded or forgotten reputations. The series should also evoke interest in long-unread work by familiar names.” – Prof. Stanley Weintraub, University of Delaware, in ELT: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 (2010)
“[Valancourt Books is] issuing attractively prepared and priced editions, most with brief but generally useful introductions that situate the texts within their times and cultures. These editions are wonderful resources, and one can only hope that they will be adopted in sufficient numbers to enable the publisher to continue to add to the titles available.” – Prof. Stephen Behrendt, University of Nebraska, in European Romantic Review (2006)
“Valancourt Books is a godsend. […] [O]ne should be extremely thankful that […] Valancourt continues to make rare works in the genre more accessible for study.” – Gothic Studies (2010)
“[S]everal publishers who have been steadily building up their nineteenth-century lists enjoy more and more prominence in this lively area of literary history. Especially noticeable are the endeavors of […] Valancourt, whose fresh editions of neglected literary works broaden our range of teaching texts.” – Prof. Joseph Bristow, UCLA, in SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (2011)
“Valancourt are doing a magnificent job in making these books not only available but – in many cases – known at all . . . these reprints are well chosen and well designed (often using the original dust jackets), and have excellent introductions.” – Phil Baker, Times Literary Supplement