X-link to the Kids/YA thread, since Christopher Golden is a much-published sfnal TV tie-in writer who's had a lot of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer novels printed, which people might have read and enjoyed previously:
Free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon: 2 YA supernatural suspense novels in his Sleepy Hollow High series based on the classic Washington Irving tale, originally out from small-press Razorbill in 2005
Also free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
Freakshow: A Twisted Love Story by Donna Burgess (
ISFDB), a carnival-set short. Burgess has a few minor story credits in small press outlets. This is not one of them.
Evan O'Leary had a normal life. But in the blink of an eye, everything fell apart and he found himself alone. With a frightening and amazing new gift, he joins a traveling sideshow and finds new love. But not without consequences.