The Valva (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2026
- Softcover
- New

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Paperback. THE VALVA - She Who Has No Clean NameTransylvania, 1912. A shepherd finds bare footprints in the snow around his sheepfold. They are not animal tracks. They are a woman's. And they come from the forest.This is the first of three encounters spanning more than a century - each leaving behind the dead, the missing, and a silence no one dares to name.The Blood Valva is a pre-Dacian entity, older than the Christian faith and older than the fear we know. She is not a strigoi. She is not an iele. She is something for which no language has a word. She feeds on the fracture of the family - on the moment when a man turns his hands against those he loved. Once she touches a bloodline, she follows it through generations, unhurried, merciless, with the patience of things that know they have more time than you.The novel follows three men from the same bloodline, across three different eras: Gheorghe Marginean - a shepherd in the Apuseni Mountains, who hears an impossible melody on an October night in 1912 and is never the same man afterwards.Radu Constantin - an engineer sent to electrify an isolated village in 1977, who discovers forbidden archives, a real entity, and a ritual no one has ever performed before.Ana Varlan - an investigative journalist from Cluj who, in 2024, connects seven disappearances in seven years and understands, too late, that in following the story she has become part of it.A horror novel rooted in authentic Romanian folklore. Transylvanian gothic atmosphere, suspense building from the very first page, and an ending that will not let you sleep.For readers of Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Mariana Enriquez. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Valva (Paperback)
- Author
- Mihai Daniel Culea
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798248482382
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