[NightBird]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Hear! Hear!
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Yes
Agreed
Why, of course





Don

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Originally Posted by Critteranne

Not a free title, but a free podcast. The hosts of A Podcast to the Curious interview A. N. Donaldson, author of Prospero's Mirror, this week. You can subacribe on iTunes and so forth, or get it from their blog at http://www.mrjamespodcast.com/2013/0...-a-n-donaldson

Be sure to check out their earlier episodes. They are devotng an episode to all the M. R. James stories, in order.

Good one, Critteranne. Thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by pstjmack

As a Cambridge man, I'm just peeved that the venue had to be switched from MR James's alma mater to The Other Place. But I'm still definitely going to be dipping into this one

LOL

My favorite M.R. James story is "The Mezzotint." Really creepy. I also liked the fantasy, The Five Jars, something a little different. I know a lot of people don't like a first-person narrator, but I do sometimes as I think it can create a lot of suspense just going along with the narrator and seeing where it all leads.

Two freebies from Crossroad Press today. I've had these on my wishlist for a while so I really did a doubletake when I saw these were free.

Deathgrip by Brian Hodge. (Great writer, BTW.)

His touch can heal or harm. His fate is solitary. His agony belongs to us all…

He was born on a day of pain: November 22, 1963. He came of age in agony: that moment of tragedy when fun-loving rock-and-roll deejay Paul Handler discovered the inexplicable power in his own hands.

It is the power to make the wounded whole again. The power to make the lame walk and to heal the sick. It is a power that will sap his soul and plunge him into the world of a famous faith healer. It is a power that can turn to rage, even murder. It is a gift that makes Paul Handler a living, breathing human sacrifice.

For thousands of years, a secret cabal has guarded the lineage to which Paul is heir — scapegoats who have been forced to bear humanity's anguish upon themselves. Now, while the cabal searches for him, and one man seeks to destroy him, Paul makes a lonely, frightening journey to the core of his identity and to his destiny … to all the pain his soul can bear, to all the redemption he can give, to the freedom that is death.

Thunder Rise is the first book in a trilogy by G. Wayne Miller.

Something is happening to the children of Morgantown...

One by one, they are claimed by a strange illness that cannot be identified.

Night after night, they are haunted by terrifying creatures that invade their dreams.

Moment to moment, they dread the final hours of daylight. When the towering mountain called Thunder Rise casts its shadow over the town. When childhood innocence surrenders to primal fear. When evil reaches out—and into—their minds.

Crossroad Press has really been churning out a lot of backlist titles, usually priced from $2.99 to $4.99, and most are also available at Kobo with coupons. Downside is they do seem to have quite a few scanning errors/typos.

I'm reading one of theirs now and it is one of the best horror books I've ever read: Son of the Endless Night by John Farris (best known for being the author of The Fury). $3.99 at Amazon and Kobo. Check out the contest going on now at Kobo for coupons or check the Kobobooks coupon thread here.

Basically, the title is the name of the demon possessing one of the characters. Complex story with lots of characters, unusual situations, progressing to a legal thriller with the defense in a murder trial of not guilty due to possession by a demon. All the witnesses to the murder are being killed of in unusual and grotesque ways. lol Great writing and descriptions. This would make a great movie. Anyone who likes the best work of Stephen King or Dean Koontz will like this.

In a peaceful Vermont courtroom, humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable -- armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death -- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance. Against it stand only imperfect human beings, caught in a world-spanning struggle in which they have everything to lose -- for all of us -- and only human strength to help them. Not since The Exorcist has there been such a powerful novel of demonic possession as Son of the Endless Night; perhaps never has there been a novel that so weds supernatural horror with human weakness as to make the two inextricably one.