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 1985-88, he edited Source,^[5] a journal devoted to the research and preservation of ancient holy wells. He 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 short wave 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

References

External links

• Wormwoodiana
• Interview with a Book Collector