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A Strong Collection of Horror Stories

The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by Edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle

January 5, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Another of my Christmas Valancourt books! I was honestly impressed by this collection. It has a consistently high quality of stories and there weren’t any that I thought were especially weak. I also liked that it was a mix of Victorian and more modern stories, which felt like a good back and forth in terms of writing style. There were some legitimately scary stories in here. After slogging through so many indifferent SF/F collections from the 1960s and 1970s over the past few years, this […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, horror, short story collection

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, horror, short story collection ·
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