Free/Bargain Horror April 2013

[mr_nihilism]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free from Evil Jester: Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez.

Sounds like my cup o tea.

[dreams]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free from Evil Jester: Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by caleb72

Oooh Wendigo! Count me in. Thanks for that.

Originally Posted by mr_nihilism

Sounds like my cup o tea.

I just read another story, a short, about the Wendigo and it is still free at Amazon: Nicholas Antinozzi - Odd Whitefeather [Short - Wendigo Myth]. It was more of a "cozy" version, but I still enjoyed it.

Spoiler:

A short read that packs some powerful magic. When Billy Proudfoot and Terry Blackbird return to the reservation for the funeral of a beloved friend, they are shocked to find themselves alone at the funeral home. When their friend rises from his casket, they make tracks to the only man they know who can help them, Odd Whitefeather. The old man explains that a Windigo is on the loose and that the two of them must defeat it, or die trying. This is modern-day folklore that twists the present into the past, sure to bring a smile to both young and old.

[NightBird]

YW!

From Samhain:

Coupon Code
Receive 30% off this month's featured title with coupon code "APRILSHOWERS" (Exp. 4/30/13 Midnight EST)

The featured title is The Darkest Lullaby by Jonathan Janz for $3.85 with the coupon. Or get it at Kobo for $3.21 with 30% off coupon GETTINGTOKNOWU08.

The blood of the innocent is the ultimate sacrifice.

The old house waited. For years there had been rumors that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex…and sacrifices. Then Lilith died and the house sat empty. Until now. Lilith’s nephew, Chris, and his wife, Ellie, are moving in. Ellie isn’t happy about living in such a dark, foreboding place, but she wants to get pregnant and this house has a lot more room to raise a baby than their apartment. Unfortunately, she and Chris will soon learn that Lilith has other plans.

They also have a preorder of another of Ramsey Campbell's backlist in ebook format:

The Influence, on sale now for $3.85 in multiple formats. Will be available 5/7.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free from Evil Jester: Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez.

I like the Christmas-styled cover, with big chunks of snow falling in the forest. That's so sweet........but what's that red stain in the snow?

I'm confused.




Dr. Drib

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Oooh Wendigo! Count me in. Thanks for that.

+1 --- Absolutely, me too!

I'm a Wendigo fan from way back yonder!




Don

[NightBird]

What red stain?

heheh

[NightBird]

Free from Crossroad Press: The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector.

An adrenaline-charged tale of unrelenting suspense that sparks with raw and savage energy... The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Ten murders on the New York City subway. Ten grisly crimes that defy all reason -- no pattern, no m.o., no leads for police to pursue. The press dubs the fiend the "Subway Psycho"; the NYPD desperately seeks their quarry before the city erupts in mass hysteria. But they won't find what they're looking for.

Because they all think that the killer is human.

Only a few know the true story -- a story the papers will never print. It is a tale of abject terror and death written in grit and steel... and blood. The tale of a man who vanished into the bowels of the urban earth one night, taken by a creature of unholy evil, then left as a babe abandoned on the doorstep of Hell. Now he is back, driven by twin demons of rage and retribution.

He is unstoppable. And we are all his prey... unless a ragtag band of misfit souls will dare to descend into a world of manmade darkness, where the real and unreal alike dwell in endless shadow. A place where humanity has been left behind, and the horrifying truth will dawn as a madman's chilling vendetta comes to light...

Filled with gripping drama and harrowing doomsday dread, The Light at the End is the book that ushered in a bold new view of humankind's most ancient and ruthless evil; a mesmerizing novel from two acknowledged masters of spellbinding suspense.

If you get this one you can also get the audio from Audible for $1.99.


Some freebies from Severed Press:

Meta-horde: A Ministry of Zombies Novel by Sean Page and John McCuaig.

The year 2020 was a good one for the walking dead.

The initial reports of a mysterious plague reanimating corpses caused unbridled chaos and as the world descended into hell, nations turned on each other in the battle to survive.

Europe is devastated. The remnants of NATO managed to create safe zones within cities that still had the protection of medieval built stonewalls. Once again, these ancient bastions were a sanctuary from invaders, keeping back the dead legions.

The rest of the continent was a dead zone - populated by hundreds of millions of walking corpses.

The medieval fortress-city of Carcassonne, in Southern France, became the headquarters of the living but as the last pockets of human survivors rebuilt the fragile framework of a new society, one man discovers a terrifying secret. So far, what has happened is only the beginning. Humanity now faces a true extinction level event. The dead are clustering in massive numbers.

Mere walls can't defend against the overwhelming force of the meta-horde.

I Am Automaton: A Science Fiction Zombie Novel by Edward P. Cardillo.

In the near future, terrorists and drug cartels threaten the security of a United States reeling from the Rollercoaster Recession, escalating unemployment, and air saturated with toxic pollen. Sergeant Peter Birdsall's squad is wiped out by the Navajas cartel in Tijuana thanks to a tip from a mole within. The only survivor, he is recruited into the army’s mysterious infantry drone program by Major Lewis, who promises that the program will revolutionize the war on terror and the cartels.
While Peter is trained in the use of these infantry drones to hunt down enemies of freedom in normally inaccessible terrain, his younger egg-head brother, Carl, can no longer afford college. Tempted to follow in his older brother’s footsteps, Carl considers enlisting. Now, Peter must balance the dangers of his work with keeping his brother out of harm’s way. However, Carl, like the drones, has a mind of his own.

Hissmelina by James Robert Smith.

In Elijah, high in the Carolina mountains, police officer Frances Jennings is drawn into a mystery involving several missing persons and the return of local matriarch Hester Keener. While Frances battles city fathers over her position as Elijah’s first female officer, her boyfriend is seduced by the power that emanates from The Crag, the peak that dominates Elijah, by his attraction for that place and for Hester’s young heir. What dark forces are at play? Who, or what, is the twisted form called "Hissmelina"? Frances peels away the layers of darkness to find an answer she may not wish to know.

Repeat freebies:

Necrophobia #1

The Hunt

The Village of Dead Souls

The Hell Season

[mr_nihilism]

Thanks for the links, NightBird !

Rock on.

[koland]

Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton
Bad Moon Books / Evil Jester Press

In these pages you'll find the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback...all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they're even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen. The Haunted House of the '30s gives way to the Werewolf of the '40s, the Monsters of L.A. Creature of the '50s, and so on, all the way up to our favorite modern boogeyman, the Zombie. In some of these stories, you'll find an earthly incarnation of a famous namesake: Frankenstein is a patched-together, homeless vet, the Invisible Woman is so ordinary you'd never see her; but some of these familiar friends - Dracula, the Devil, or those seriously creepy Clowns - will be instantly recognizable.

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-of-L-.../dp/B00BQH9FJI

[mr_nihilism]

Thanks, koland !

[NightBird]

Free novella from Evil Jester: Lost Girl of the Lake by Michael McCarty and Joe McKinney.

Lake Livingston: August, 1961. Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls. But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold many secrets for an impressionable youngster on the cusp of becoming a man. And one night, after skinny dipping in the lake with a mysterious local girl, Mark Gaitlin's life takes a crazy turn into the fire and brimstone religion of backwoods snake handlers and abandoned villages haunted by old family secrets. If he can survive the snakes and the ghosts and his own family's dark history, he just might make it out of the woods alive. And something else...he just might become a man.

[Brendan Moody]

Rick Hautala's The Mountain King is $0.99 for this week only: this link is to the publisher's site, where you can get epub and mobi versions in a single download. It's also on sale at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Nook, and the iTunes Store; it's net yet marked down at Kobo or Sony.

[Brendan Moody]

David Niall Wilson and Steven Savile's horror western Hallowed Ground is free at Amazon US and Amazon UK today and tomorrow. Once you pick it up, you can also get the Whispersync-ready Audible audiobook for only $1.99 in the US; I don't know what the UK price would be.

[alicepattinson]

Oh no, Abandon isnt free anymore Oh well, atleast it's $5 for now. whew!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by alicepattinson

Oh no, Abandon isnt free anymore Oh well, atleast it's $5 for now. whew!

You're talking FOURTEEN (14) days ago!

That's like a computer chip generation, when talking ebooks.




Don