FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Incidentally, of the 'new' authors I've read this year, Stephen George was a great find. Really enjoyed Nightscape. Definitely want to read more by him.

Jonathan Janz I also enjoyed. Children of the Dark was a fast moving rollercoaster that I recommend. Though the main character came of as a bit of a Mary Sue. He always seemed to say the correct thing and came off as wiser than his years and more honest than most real people would be.

Dan Simmons Summer of Night is up next.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

If you're a fan of F. Paul Wilson, he has his Ice Sequence books on sale as a BUNDLE for only $2.99. Here's the link:

https://www.amazon.com/ICE-Sequence-...t%2C248&sr=1-1


Or, if you have a lot of money to burn, you can pay the price below for each volume:

(1) $9.99 - Panacea: A Novel (The ICE Sequence Book 1)
(2) $13.99 - The God Gene: A Novel (The ICE Sequence Book 2)
(3) $9.99 - The Void Protocol (The ICE Sequence Book 3)

That's a great deal!

Grabbed

[Paperbackstash]

Grabbed all the recent recommended, the two from Ambrose, and Koko

This is fast becoming one of my favorite threads on this forum

As a side note, for those who ordered from Flame Tree Press a few weeks ago, some of the orders are slowed/delayed. They announced on Twitter. Several of my friends received theirs, but not for me yet.

[Dr. Drib]

If you like really cheesy horror novels from the 1980s, then you may wish to check out William W. Johnstone. His series of five related novels are on sale: four of them at 99 cents each, and one at $1.99.

Here's the link:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

These were published, I believe, by Pinnacle/Zebra in the 1980s.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

If you like really cheesy horror novels from the 1980s, then you may wish to check out William W. Johnstone. His series of five related novels are on sale: four of them at 99 cents each, and one at $1.99.

Here's the link:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

These were published, I believe, by Pinnacle/Zebra in the 1980s.

I avoid Johnstone even though he writes in several genres I like (western, horror, apocalyptic fiction). Just have no interest.

[radbaddude]

The Forever House by Tim Waggoner
Amazon US $0.99

In Rockridge, Ohio, a sinister family moves into a sleepy cul de sac. The Eldreds feed on the negative emotions of humans, creating nightmarish realms within their house to entrap their prey. Neighbors are lured into the Eldreds’ home and faced with challenges designed to heighten their darkest emotions so their inhuman captors can feed and feed well. If the humans are to have any hope of survival, they’ll have to learn to overcome their prejudices and resentments toward one another and work together. But which will prove more deadly in the end, the Eldreds . . . or each other?

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

The Forever House by Tim Waggoner
Amazon US $0.99

Thanks for that!

This is another Flame Tree/Fiction Without Frontiers book, if that matters to anyone.

[ZodWallop]

Boy in the Box by Marc E. Fitch is $0.99 at Amazon US.

This is a Flame Tree/Fiction Without Frontiers book.

Ten years ago a mysterious and tragic hunting accident deep in the Adirondack Mountains left a boy buried in a storied piece of land known as Coombs’ Gulch and four friends with a terrible secret.

Now, Jonathan Hollis and brothers Michael and Conner Braddick must return to the place that changed their lives forever in order to keep their secret buried. What they don’t realize is that they are walking into a trap — one set decades earlier by a supernatural being who is not confined by time or place: a demon that demands a sacrifice.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Incidentally, of the 'new' authors I've read this year, Stephen George was a great find. Really enjoyed Nightscape. Definitely want to read more by him.

I finally finished Nightscape. What a weird story! I think I would read something else by him but not right away. I looked at what he's got and need a few showers first.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Incidentally, of the 'new' authors I've read this year, Stephen George was a great find. Really enjoyed Nightscape. Definitely want to read more by him.

Jonathan Janz I also enjoyed. Children of the Dark was a fast moving rollercoaster that I recommend. Though the main character came of as a bit of a Mary Sue. He always seemed to say the correct thing and came off as wiser than his years and more honest than most real people would be.

Dan Simmons Summer of Night is up next.

I can recommend this Jonathan Janz novella that I just finished reading: Witching Hour Theatre. This is my first encounter with Janz - thanks to your head's up, I believe, on a few posts back - and I look forward to reading more by this writer.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

I finally finished Nightscape. What a weird story! I think I would read something else by him but not right away. I looked at what he's got and need a few showers first.

I liked that it was weird. Horror can be grisly and dark. But it can also be a bit predictable. I appreciate when a writer puts out something that is a break from the norm.

I had that feeling when I read Clive Barker's Books of Blood and I had that feeling reading Nightscape (not that Nightscape is of the same stature as the Books of Blood).

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I can recommend this Jonathan Janz novella that I just finished reading: Witching Hour Theatre. This is my first encounter with Janz - thanks to your head's up, I believe, on a few posts back - and I look forward to reading more by this writer.

Thanks for the recommendation. I have Witching Hour Theater.

[ZodWallop]

Right now, I'm reading Summer of Night by Dan Simmons and I love his writing. There's horror authors that can spin a really good tale and/or they are masters of pacing. Like Richard Laymon for example.

Then there are horror writers that are really terrific writers (not that they can't also be excellent at tale telling/pacing). These authors are much more rare. I'm thinking of Stephen King, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Clive Barker. People like that.

Dan Simmons definitely fits in with the second group of writers. Summer of Night is a book I keep looking for time to fit in a little more, even though nothing much had happened yet.

The book is very much in the vein of It, yet it doesn't feel like a swipe. It is still on sale for $2.99 and I would heartily recommend picking it up, if you don't already own it.

There are sort of two sequels to the book: A Winter Haunting (which is acknowledged as a direct sequel and is on sale for $3.99) and a sort of offshoot sequel, Children of the Night (not on sale).

[ZodWallop]

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson is $1.99 at Amazon US.

"A celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their horrors . . . Immensely enjoyable, piercingly clever, and satisfyingly soulful." -Jason Heller, NPR

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent.

[Dr. Drib]

^ That one looks absolutely delicious. I'm somehow reminded of Jonathan Carroll - an excellent writer, by the way.

Got it!

THANK YOU!