FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is £2 on Amazon UK

A new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter working in Hollywood, and he's seen it all. All the toxic personalities and coverups, the structural obstructions to reform, even dead actors brought back to screen by CGI – and finally, maybe, the hint of change.

But having just been nominated for his first Oscar, Misha is pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale—"for the algorithm"—on the same day he witnesses to gruesome death-by-piano of treasured animator (and notorious creep) Raymond Nelson.

Success, it seems, isn't the answer to everything.

With the help of his best friend and paranoid database queen, Tara, and his boyfriend, Zeke, Misha has face down his traumatic childhood and past mistakes. But in a paranoid industry that thinks nothing of killing off talent, it's not so simple to find a way to do what's right.

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The Vanishing by Bentley Little is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Little's stuff doesn't go on sale too often.

In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message...“This is where it begins.”

Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints.

And all across California, children are becoming affected by a monstrous change—and their parents, by a mounting fear.

Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian Howells are determined to find the link between these baffling crimes. But they shouldn’t look too deeply into the lives of the victims. It’s quite dark there. And God help them, they won’t like what they find.

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Bone White by Ronald Malfi - 2.99

Amazon | Kobo

A man’s search for his missing brother triggers a blood-freezing odyssey into the Alaskan wilds in a terrifying novel by an award-winning master of contemporary horror.

The Camp by Nancy Bush - 2.99

Kobo


*** Supposed to be on sale according to Kensington on Amazon as well but it is not, so they must have messed up somewhere

diabolical modern twist on Friday the 13th meets Yellowjackets at a summer sleepaway camp isolated in the woods of Oregon.

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Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Short story collection. Translated by Megan McDowell.
The novel Our Share of Night is also on sale.

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies through the flames...

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Originally Posted by 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.

Now $2.

[ZodWallop]

Mr. X by Peter Straub is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US. I've been watching this one for a long time and it has never dropped this low before.

I don't know where this ranks in Straub's canon, but I loved it when I first read it. Straub explores Lovecraft. Highly recommended by me from twenty-five years ago. And I always loved the Stephen King blurb for this one.

“Ghastly, hide-your-eyes horror; when Peter Straub turns on all jets, no one in the scream factory can equal him.”—Stephen King

Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr. X.

Now, with his birthday fast approaching, Ned has been drawn back to his hometown of Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother is dying. On her deathbed, she imparts to him the name of his long-absent father and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, he embarks on a search through Edgerton’s past for the truth behind his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family.

But when Ned becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths, he begins to realize that he is not the only one who has come home. . . .

[Desertway]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Mr. X by Peter Straub is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US. I've been watching this one for a long time and it has never dropped this low before.

I don't know where this ranks in Straub's canon, but I loved it when I first read it. Straub explores Lovecraft. Highly recommended by me from twenty-five years ago. And I always loved the Stephen King blurb for this one.

My reading log tells me I read this in 2009. I have absolutely no recollection of it. But I love Straub and I'm going to grab it so that I can experience it again for the very first time. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Desertway

My reading log tells me I read this in 2009. I have absolutely no recollection of it. But I love Straub and I'm going to grab it so that I can experience it again for the very first time. Thanks!

I don't remember the bulk of the story or the characters. But I remember the beginning, end and some bits in the middle. I do remember the book had more of a southern gothic vibe than Lovecraft, though there is a lot of focus on Lovecraft's writings in the story.

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Nestlings by Nat Cassidy is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

[...] harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

Ana and Reid needed a lucky break.

The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery.

They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning architecture.

Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York—people are odd—but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Got it.

Thank you!

[Paperbackstash]

I borrowed Nestlings from the library. Has some creepy part, it's a good one

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Missed it!

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Valancourt

Their tweet description --

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals are live worldwide! Lisa Tuttle's 2023 weird fiction volume RIDING THE NIGHTMARE is full of spooky gems to make your skin crawl. Or if you want something laugh-out-loud funny, try Cyril Kersh's (brother of Gerald Kersh) THE AGGRAVATIONS OF MINNIE ASHE.

Riding the Nightmare Amazon Link


The Aggravations of Minnie Ashe
--- Including this but it seems to be comedy and not horror, maybe dark comedy? No clue, didnt look into it that much

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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Valancourt

Their tweet description --

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals are live worldwide! Lisa Tuttle's 2023 weird fiction volume RIDING THE NIGHTMARE is full of spooky gems to make your skin crawl. Or if you want something laugh-out-loud funny, try Cyril Kersh's (brother of Gerald Kersh) THE AGGRAVATIONS OF MINNIE ASHE.

Riding the Nightmare Amazon Link


The Aggravations of Minnie Ashe
--- Including this but it seems to be comedy and not horror, maybe dark comedy? No clue, didnt look into it that much

Gerald Kersh's brother. I think I'll get it.

Thank you!

[ZodWallop]

The Hellgate: A Horror Novel Collection by Doug Lamoreux is $1 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

So far, I've only read The Devil's Bed and I enjoyed it. He has another interesting book called Dracula's Demeter (not in this collection).

A collection of four horror novels by Doug Lamoreux, now available in one volume!

Saucy Jacky: Step into the dark alleys of 1888 Whitechapel, London, and witness the chilling story of Jack the Ripper unfold through his own eyes. Follow him as he stalks his victims and evades the police, revealing his plans and secret thoughts along the way. Prepare to be haunted by this notorious serial killer and the horrors he unleashed upon the unsuspecting streets of the East End.

The Devil's Bed: Join Brandy Petracus on a terrifying journey through the haunted graveyard of unholy Templar knights in France. The resurrected knights, thirsty for blood, leave Brandy as the leader of a diverse group fighting for survival in an ancient chapel. With madness, vampirism, and flashbacks to 14th century Paris, Brandy must make sacrifices and gain the trust of her companions to uncover the secrets of the Devil's Bed. Will they make it out alive?

The Melting Dead: A family vacation on a secluded Mississippi River island turns into a nightmare when a cosmic force turns them into living, deteriorating torches. The only cure is fresh flesh, and unsuspecting tourists become their prey. This B-movie horror novel is a rollercoaster ride of terror and laughs, guaranteed to burst your heart with fear and make your sides ache with laughter.

When The Tik-Tik Sings: A sleepy Iowa town is terrorized by a serial killer with a strange modus operandi. Victims are killed under eerie circumstances, bearing identical unidentified wounds, accompanied by an ominous ticking sound. When the lead investigator goes missing, Police Sergeant Erin Vanderjagt is thrown into the case, facing a personal hell she could have never imagined.