Valancourt Books is an independent American publishing house founded by James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle in 2005.

[1] Discovering that many works of Gothic fiction from the late 18th and early 19th centuries were unavailable in print, Jenkins and Cagle founded Valancourt in 2005 and began reprinting some of them.

[3][4][5][6][7] Eventually the company "expanded into neglected Victorian-era popular fiction, including old penny dreadfuls and sensation novels, as well as a lot of the decadent and fin de siècle literature of the 1890s.

"[1] In 2012, Jenkins and Cagle realized that there was 20th century literature as recent as the 1970s or 1980s that was equally difficult to find, and began republishing such modern works, in particular those of gay interest or in the horror/supernatural genre.

[1] Valancourt's reprint editions all have new introductions either by the original authors or by "leading writers or critics.