Free/Bargain Horror Ebooks January 2013

[NightBird]

Repeat freebie from last February: The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley. Originally published by Apex in 2009.

The monsters lurk in everyone: monsters of greed, of guilt, of the pleasure found in pain, of the pain found when pleasure dies. Carefully disguised, the monsters can sit down beside you or take up residence within you at the slightest twist of fate. Will you try to stop them? Will you want to?

This collection of 18 stories from R. Thomas Riley deftly explores the monsters born of the human mind. “Attrition” offers a future prison system that frees only those who repent sincerely—but what can an inmate do if he finds that sincerity is not really the key? “Twin Thieves” and “Tautology” throw a devilish spin on relationships gone wrong, while “The Lesser Evil” twists the abuses of race and power into a gritty, noirish nightmare of the choices a man must make to protect a lesser man and a greater good. In “Touching God,” a young man’s past catches up to him when worlds bleed into each other and the past crosses into present, bringing back the abuse he once escaped and the brother who wasn’t so lucky.

Sacrifice, selfishness, and the worst of good intentions: all combine in The Monster Within Idea. From vampires and aliens to hit women and Wild Bill Hickock, Riley gives a subtle psychological turn to dark science fiction and horror. Let the monsters walk the paths of your mind. The idea is already within.

[NightBird]

Free from Severed Press: Pyramid of the Dead: A Zombie Novel by John McCuaig.

In the 16th century a few hundred Spanish Conquistadors, led by the great Francisco Pizarro, landed on the shores of the Incan Empire in search of gold. Just a few months later the mightiest realm in the world lies in ruins, its once beautiful cities destroyed and its citizens butchered. Greed and lies, betrayal and vengeance mix with the black magic of the High Priests to set free an ancient evil from the underworld. As these lands descend into a deadly chaos an uneasy alliance is formed between the last of the Spanish soldiers and the Incan warriors, led by Minco, the Protector of the capital city Cuzco. Setting aside their well earned mistrust and hatred, together they must venture deep into the jungle to find the Forbidden City, to strike at the very heart of evil itself, the Pyramid of the Dead.

[NightBird]

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Three stories under the title Halloween Candy.

1. Where Flies Are Born

2. Machinery of Night

3. 265 and Heaven

Short Story, The Wolf, from Wild Things.

In "The Wolf" a hunter guides a younger man up a mountain to track down the creature that has been slaughtering in the valley below.

[koland]

Originally Posted by NightBird

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Neverland

this is just an excerpt

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by koland

this is just an excerpt

Thanks - I removed that one.

[NightBird]

This week's free Joe Lansdale short story is The Shaggy House.

Another story inspired by The Nightrunners.
In the book there's a scene where one of my characters sees the house where he is soon to live for the first time, and I gave a sort of over-the-top description of it that I thought worked quite well in context, but there was something in that description that spurred me to consider the house from another angle, a less grim one. What came out was this short story. It's a gonzo hoot with an echo of Bradbury and a lot of tongue in cheek.
My title was "Something Lumber This Way Comes," which my friend Bill Nolan, to put it mildly, hated. He suggested this title. Since I used the other title on a variation of this story which became a children's book [published by Subterranean Press], I agreed. Secretly, I still prefer the original title.

[NightBird]

For Dr. Drib - one you wanted and missed in November: Repeat freebie Valley of the Dead(The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno).

Working from Dante’s Inferno to draw out the reality behind the fantasy, author Kim Paffenroth unfolds the horrifying true events that led Dante to fictionalize the account of his lost years…

For seventeen years of his life, the exact whereabouts of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri are unknown to modern scholars. It is known that during this time he traveled as an exile across Europe, working on his epic poem, The Divine Comedy. In his masterpiece he describes a journey through the three realms of the afterlife. The most famous of its three volumes, Inferno, describes hell.

During his lost wanderings, Dante stumbled upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed —cannibalism, live burnings, evisceration, crucifixion, and dozens more—became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno. Afraid to be labeled a madman, Dante made the terrors he experienced into a more “believable” account of an otherworldly adventure filled with demons and mythological monsters.

But at last, the real story can finally be told.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by NightBird

For Dr. Drib - one you wanted and missed in November: Repeat freebie Valley of the Dead(The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno).

I now 'own' it!

Thank you, NightBird.




Don

[curtw]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I now 'own' it!

Thank you, NightBird.




Don

Same here--just missed it last time. Thanks!

[NightBird]

Glad you both got it.

[NightBird]

Some price reductions/sale on horror books in Amazon's speculative fiction imprint, 47 North, $2.99-$3.99. Includes Richard Laymon, Graham Masterton, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Nate Kenyon.

47 North Horror

One from Sarah Pinborough for $2.99: The Reckoning.

The Library Journal description is wrong, apparently from a different book, so here's one from Fiction Database:

They were children then, in that magical summer so long ago when Robert, Carrie-Anne, and Jason first met Gina. It was a summer of fun, of friendship, and of discoveries--including the discovery of Gina's strange abilities. But it all ended in a moment of madness and blood.

Now, twenty years later, Robert is still haunted by nightmares of that time. He has returned to his small hometown to confront his past and reclaim his life, but his homecoming is far from happy. Gina moved away long ago. Jason is bitter and resentful. And Carrie-Anne is about to commit an act that will horrify them all. Something unexplainable has infected the town. Could the secret lie in the past, in Gina's old house, abandoned long ago but never quite empty?

http://www.fictiondb.com/author/sara...g~139729~b.htm

[eReaderPerks]

Happy Friday!

Here are some top-rated free Kindle Horror books for Friday, January 18, 2013: (All freebies listed are 4.5+ star rated)

The Foul Mouth and the Fanged Lady (The King Henry Tapes)

Driver 5

Chivalry is Undead (Just Another Zombie Love Story)

Vicious: A Novel of Suspense

Vaempires: Zombie Rising (The Evolutionary War)

Hope you find something great to read!

Lorie

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by eReaderPerks

Happy Friday!

Here are some top-rated free Kindle Horror books for Friday, January 18, 2013: (All freebies listed are 4.5+ star rated)

The Foul Mouth and the Fanged Lady (The King Henry Tapes)

Driver 5

Chivalry is Undead (Just Another Zombie Love Story)

Vicious: A Novel of Suspense

Vaempires: Zombie Rising (The Evolutionary War)

Hope you find something great to read!

Lorie

Lorie, please don't post self-pubbed books. Thanks.

[NightBird]

Free weekly Joe Lansdale story this week Pentecostal Punk Rock

[eReaderPerks]

I am sorry to say I misread the OP. Apologies and it won't happen again.