FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hey, fantastic! Peter Straub is one of my favorite horror authors. Now why didn't ereaderIQ tell me about this?

I didn't get a notification either, and Straub is on my watchlist at ereaderiq.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by kyrilson

I didn't get a notification either, and Straub is on my watchlist at ereaderiq.

I wonder if I have missed others? I've been hoping for Mr. X to have a big price drop.

Though I have seen that many of his books are dropping from trade paperback prices to mass market paperback prices (so from around $10 to around $6). I've seen this with some other popular authors. I'm hoping it is a sign of sanity among publishers.

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I wonder if I have missed others? I've been hoping for Mr. X to have a big price drop.

Though I have seen that many of his books are dropping from trade paperback prices to mass market paperback prices (so from around $10 to around $6). I've seen this with some other popular authors. I'm hoping it is a sign of sanity among publishers.

Hope so!

Mr. X was at $5.99 on *checks notes* 5/20. I didn't buy it though, I'm too cheap. Over $3.99 is right around when I start wavering on buying. Although for favorites like Straub, I'll go up to $4.99.

[ZodWallop]

Hey! EreaderIQ just told me If You Could See Me Now is on sale...

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hey! EreaderIQ just told me If You Could See Me Now is on sale...

Too funny. I just got that email too and came here to say something. 😂

[Dr. Drib]

They're probably getting their information from Mobileread.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

They're probably getting their information from Mobileread.

Them and GoodEreader

[salty-horse]

Father of Lies by Brian Evenson is $3.5 on Amazon.com
Part of a series that reissued three of the author's novels, with introductions by Peter Straub, Samuel R. Delany, and Caitlín R. Kiernan.

At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Through the therapist's detailed notes, correspondence from the church, and the provost himself, the provost's sickness emerges and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.The provost relays his crimes in excruciating detail. 'God told me that where evil made its mark, good must follow, burning evil out and purifying the body.' Fochs describes a dream in which he sodomizes two boys from the parish in an effort to exorcise their sins. Soon thereafter, two boys come forward accusing Fochs of that very deed. In another dream he strangles and dismembers a young girl in the woods near his house, where a child from his parish is later found.

As the provost's dreams are discovered to be reality and accusations against him are made public, the church is forced to respond. In an effort to protect one of its own, and, in turn, to protect itself, the Committee for the Strengthening of the church demands that Dr. Feshtig turn over his notes about Provost Fochs. This marks the beginning of the church's all-out effort to cover up for the provost -- and launches the race to the novel's final revelation of whether good, in the form of the law, or evil, in the hands of the provost (and by association the church), will prevail.

Brian Evenson holds the reader to the page until the novel's fateful end. En route, he questions whether obedience to God justifies taking every possible liberty, right or wrong. And he brings to light how an institution supposed to be under divine guidance can be as eager as its worldly counterpart to soil its hands in the furthering of the cause of supposed righteousness.

[ZodWallop]

Baal by Robert McCammon is $1.99 at Amazon and B&N ($2.99 at Kobo?)

A woman gives birth to a child whose evilness threatens all mankind

Mary Kate is an ordinary woman: a waitress in a diner, stuck in a loveless marriage to an English-major-turned-cabbie. But whoever assaults her in a New York City alley is far from ordinary. As the man’s icy grip burns her skin, she couldn’t grasp the dark fate that awaits her. The rape leaves her carrying a child, who she and her husband name Jeffrey. As they try to live as a family, a mysterious force poisons them against each other. Finally overcome with hate for her husband, Mary Kate kills him, sending herself to jail and the child to an orphanage.

There the boy takes a new name, Baal, and develops sinister powers that flourish as he approaches adulthood. When Baal becomes a man, the whole world will tremble before him.

[shemsha]

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix is $1.99 at Amazon

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

[ZodWallop]

The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda is $0.99 at Amazon US. I'm mainly familiar with her through The Monsters of Chavez Ravine.

Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.

Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.

The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.

Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals. But the naturalist and wilderness survival expert doesn’t believe in monsters. Not even when a tourist on his boat sees a strange creature in the tidal channel and captures it on video.

When Adam moves into a controversial housing development next to the marsh, shocking new evidence emerges, and it’s not long before he’s confronted with a series of horrifying and unexplained events.

It takes Christina, his feisty new neighbor, to get him to believe something lurks in the slough. Something disturbed by the new community.

When a massive storm maroons the residents, Adam and Christina find themselves trapped and tested in a fight for their lives.

[Dr. Drib]

^

And yet, if its unimaginable (author's blurb, I presume):

"Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda."

then how is she able to imagine something that is horrible if it cannot be imagined in the first place? Perhaps it's nothing more than a comfy-cosy mystery. Or - the HORROR, the HORROR!!!!! - a Romance* story.

I would call this a 'BODDA-BING' moment.


* There is nothing wrong with reading a Romance story. I did it once, but it led to marriage **.

** There is nothing wrong with marriage. Some of my best friends, who are unfortunately deceased, were married.

(I'm obviously very bored this morning.)
Thongor, were are you when I need you!!!!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^

And yet, if its unimaginable (author's blurb, I presume):

"Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda."

then how is she able to imagine something that is horrible if it cannot be imagined in the first place?

Aha! Perhaps when they confront the great googly-eyed THING, they only see a hazy black blob, because their puny human minds cannot comprehend they great unknowable before them?

There's a good basis for a horror story in there...

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Aha! Perhaps when they confront the great googly-eyed THING, they only see a hazy black blob, because their puny human minds cannot comprehend they great unknowable before them?

There's a good basis for a horror story in there...

Yes, but I think you just wrote it in its entirety!
Oh, yes and I just realized that explains the black spots in my eyes !!!!

[ZodWallop]

The Whisper Man by Alex North is $2.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank.

But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.

Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man.

And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window...