Mark Valentine

Mark Valentine is the author of ten short story collections, two biographies, two poetry volumes, introductions to over thirty books and essays about books.^[1] His short story collections include The Collected Connoisseur (2010, with John Howard)^[2] and Selected Stories (2012).

As a biographer, Valentine has published a life of Arthur Machen^[3] and a study of Sarban.^[4] He wrote regularly about neglected authors for Book and Magazine Collector magazine from 1995 until its closure in 2010.

Valentine is also an editor. From 1985 to 1988, he edited Source,^[5] a journal devoted to the research and preservation of ancient holy wells. He then co-edited Aklo, a journal of the fantastic.^[6] Valentine currently edits Wormwood, a journal dedicated to fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature.^[7]

He has also issued sound recordings. As the Mystic Umbrellas, he contributed "Journey to the West", a keyboard piece, to the Deleted Funtime independent tape (Deleted Records, Dec 009, 1980),^[8] and as Radio Dromedary contributed a work of treated shortwave recordings to National Grid 2 (Conventional Tapes, CON 015, 1981).^[9] He also issued The Sound of the Sea/The Sound of Pendeen Watch, a sound recording of the sea and a Cornish lighthouse foghorn (Zennor Hill tapes, 1983).

Short story collections

14 Bellchamber Tower, Crimson Altar Press (Liverpool), 1987
In Violet Veils, Tartarus Press (Horam, Sussex), 1999
Masques and Citadels, Tartarus Press (North Yorkshire), 2003
The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales, with John Howard, Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania), 2008
The Nightfarers, Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania), 2009
The Collected Connoisseur, with John Howard, Tartarus Press (North Yorkshire), 2010
The Mascarons of the Late Empire & Other Studies, Passport Levant (Bucharest, Romania), 2010
The Peacock Escritoire, Passport Levant (Bucharest, Romania), 2011
Secret Europe, with John Howard, Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania), 2012
Selected Stories, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2012
Herald of the Hidden & Other Stories, Tartarus Press (North Yorkshire), 2013
Seventeen Stories, Swan River Press (Dublin), 2013

Poetry

At Dusk, Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania) 2012
Star Kites: Poems & Versions, Tartarus Press (North Yorkshire), 2013

Biographies

Arthur Machen, Seren Books, 1985
Time, a Falconer: A Study of Sarban, Tartarus Press (North Yorkshire), 2010

Monographs

The Garden of Ruin, God of the Rain, Fetish Press, 1980
The Holy Wells of Northamptonshire, The Hundreds Press, 1984
The Paravine Cries, The Stenbock Society, 1996
The English Leopard: An Heraldic Dialogue, privately printed, 2005
A Revelation of Cormorants, Night Jar Press, 2010
Rain Instruments, Valentine & Valentine, 2013

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