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The Scholars of Night by John M. Ford is $0.5 on Amazon.com (only)

John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.
Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a "consulting agency" with shadowy government connections. There, he is a genius at teasing secrets out of documents old and new—to call him a code-breaker is an understatement.
When Hansard's work exposes one of his closest friends as a Russian agent, and the friend then dies mysteriously, the connections seem all too clear. Shaken, Hansard turns away from his secret work to lose himself in an ancient Marlowe manuscript. Surely, a lost 400 year old play is different enough from modern murder.
He is very, very wrong.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Scholars of Night by John M. Ford is $13 on Amazon.com (only)

I'm showing 50 cents from Amazon.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'm showing 50 cents from Amazon.

Sorry, I used Kobo to copy the post data, and forgot to update the price.

[salty-horse]

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Critically acclaimed.

Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."

Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.

Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself.

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Cross-posted to SFF and "everything else".
The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Literary horror. Translated by Anton Hur. Review by Ian Mond

Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.

In a labyrinthine research facility, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own, an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building's enigmatic senior guard.

Each evening, as the fluorescent lights flicker and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They're warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions . . .

As the nights stretch on and reality frays, our protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent and that the objects they guard aren't just cursed. They're waiting. Watching.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Scholars of Night by John M. Ford is $0.5 on Amazon.com (only)

Should be able to be price matched on Kobo. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ars-of-night-2