Free/Bargain Horror March 2013

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

Creepy Archives, Volume 1 [Dark Horse Comics] - $3.99 at Amazon

Thanks for this one - I just started reading comics and graphic novels, and this collection looks fantastic on my 10" tablet.

[scottken]

This short book (83 pages) sounds more like fantasy, but I'm cross-posting here as well because of author interest.

The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus by Clive Barker
Free on Amazon US at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BP98EQM

Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo, who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant "Ibis bird," the troupe wanders from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb. From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies and dreams of the world. Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker's fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that other place - into those caves of ice - if only long enough to catch Maximillian's show.

Illustrations by Richard A Kirk. Afterword by David Niall Wilson

[NightBird]

If anyone wants to continue this thread, please feel free, as I won't have time to do it anymore.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by NightBird

If anyone wants to continue this thread, please feel free, as I won't have time to do it anymore.

Let's all please join in and help with the April Horror thread, which I'll go ahead and make a post #1.

This thread [March] is now closed.


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