Coming Soon and available for pre-order 

SELENE SHADE: Resurrectionist for Hire Book 1 COMING SOON 

release date September 10, 2024! 

"With a zesty heroine, a likeable style, and a touch of grue, RESURRECTIONIST FOR HIRE is the first installment in what looks to be a tremendously enjoyable series of dark thrillers. I ate it up like a zombie with a fresh plate of brains and am already hungry for more." -- Poppy Z. Brite author of Exquisite Corpse. 

link to preorder here! 

In the first installment of Victoria Dalpe’s new dark fantasy series, we meet Selene Shade, a resurrectionist for hire who might just have taken on the wrong case.
With the ability to restore life to the dead, “Zombie Queen” Selene Shade has earned quite a reputation. Not that it helps her get dates. Her bed may be empty but business is booming. That is until her life is thrown into disarray when a brutal killer comes to town and all signs point to her being the next victim.

Enlisted by the police department due to her unique craft, she must make new alliances, deal with old rivals, and maybe even save the world—whether she wants to or not—all the while avoiding the gruesome allure of dark magic and the sacrificial ritual of a mad cultist.

In Resurrectionist For Hire, Dalpe weaves a dire tale of magic, murder, and romance. To survive, Selene will have to harness her power of the dead and overcome her struggle to connect with the living.

"Dalpe wields literary black magic yet again. Cool, sardonic, and asking the big, pointed questions about life, unlife, and death. Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire kicks off what promises to be a tremendous new series." Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories)

Best of 2022

 So cool to get on someone's best of for the year lists! 

Les Femme Grotesque by Victoria Dalpe

I was a massive fan of Victoria Dalpe’s debut novel Parasite Life and I am delighted that this absorbing novel receives a well-deserved re-release in 2023 after an unfortunate spell out of print. Dalpe has been widely published in many collections and the full range of her impressive skill set can be enjoyed in Les Femme Grotesque. This exquisite collection has an impressive range of stories, with predominately female narratives, and I found myself marveling at the plotlines, changes of pace, varied settings and unsettling clashes of the everyday mundane with the supernatural. I usually read collections rather slowly, however, as I advanced through this book, my pace quickened and I found myself thinking “just one more”, which is always a good sign, being lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny. This is a sly and silky exploration of the dark femininity where things often do not end well for the male of the species. Remind me to stay on the good side of Victoria Dalpe.

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Diabolique Review

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LES FEMMES GROTESQUES [BOOK REVIEW]

Posted by Tim Murr | Oct 9, 2022

When it comes to reading horror, I always love a good short story collection. I do tend to agree with Poe’s philosophy that horror works best when it can be read in one sitting. I do not believe that to be an absolute truth, but I’ll always reach for a short story collection or a novella before I reach for a giant doorstop of a novel.

Les Femmes Grotesques by Victoria Dalpe is a short story collection that I have fallen in love with. Not only is the writing highly accessible and engaging but the stories are both thought provoking and stab at an emotional center. I can be perfectly content reading stories about werewolves, ghosts, or cannibals, but my true happy place is when a horror writer can walk the line between B material and literary fiction (Kathy Acker, Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum, William Burroughs).

Dalpe achieves this balance with the agile grace of a ninja. Facing death in horror is about as common a concern as one finds in this genre, but I think it’s rare to find an author who can craft so many different perspectives on the subject without it feeling exploitative. I feel like Les Femmes Grotesquesis sharing rarefied air with The Books of Blood and I don’t say that lightly, as I believe Clive Barker remains the pinnacle of our genre and the one voice we are all still striving to either beat or be.

Author Event

 Please join me on Oct. 26th, 2022 at 6pm at the Providence Public Library! Link here to register!

Pass along and hope to see you there- will have books to sell and ART (6 paintings) on view- 

les femmes grotesques preorder

 My next book LES FEMMES GROTESQUES is available for preorder through Clash Books for Oct.22!

link here! 

Art Opening 5/12

I have a painting in DARK AND LIGHT Pawtucket Arts Collaborative's Members' Spring Show 

Opens Thursday, May 12, 2022, 5:30-7:30. Check it out! PAC Gallery 560 Mineral Spring Ave. Pawtucket, RI 

Lovecraft arts and sciences author reading

Join me via zoom for an author reading Saturday 1/8 6pm!