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. His short story collections include The Collected Connoisseur (2010, with John Howard) and Selected Stories (2012).

As a biographer, Valentine has published a life of Arthur Machen and a study of Sarban. 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, a journal devoted to the research and preservation of ancient holy wells. He then co-edited Aklo, a journal of the fantastic. Valentine currently edits Wormwood, a journal dedicated to fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature.

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), and as Radio Dromedary contributed a work of treated shortwave recordings to National Grid 2 (Conventional Tapes, CON 015, 1981). 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

External links

• Wormwoodiana
• Interview with a Book Collector