FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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I'll Make a Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.

Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student in her dream program, Appalachian Studies, at Bricksbury University. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary and suggests she research the local folklore about a beast roaming the woods surrounding campus, Zora finds a community uneager to talk to an outsider.

As she delves into the history of the beast, she uncovers a rumored secret society called the Keepers that has tenuous ties to the beast…and Bricksbury itself. Zora soon finds herself plagued by visions of the past, and her grip on reality starts to slip as she struggles to uncover what is real and what is folklore. But when a student goes missing, Zora starts to wonder if the Keepers ever really disbanded.

There’s something in the woods and it has its eyes on Zora.

Christine by Stephen King is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

#1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King’s classic tale of an evil car that brings hellish terror to its new owner.

It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car…but Christine quickly changes all that.

Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie’s life. Dennis and Leigh soon realize that they must uncover the awful truth behind a car with a horrifying and murderous history. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and heaven help anyone who gets in Christine’s way…

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Revenge by Yoko Ogawa is $3 on Amazon.com (Only. Digital list price discount)
Novella composed of interconnected short stories.
Translated by Stephen Snyder.
A different edition, without the introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, is on Kobo WW for $3.40.
I just found out about it thanks to this review by Stewart Hotston.

"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR
Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web.
Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page.

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Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives (Saga Doubles) by Stephen Graham Jones is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Two novels in one book, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.

The Babysitter Lives

When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won’t help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.

Charlotte’s last babysitting gig almost ended in tragedy when her young charge sleepwalked unnoticed into the middle of the street, only to be found unharmed by Charlotte’s mother. Charlotte vows to be extra careful this time. But the house is filled with mysterious noises and secrets that only the twins understand, echoes of horrors that Charlotte gradually realizes took place in the house eleven years ago. Soon Charlotte has to admit that every babysitter’s worse nightmare has come true: they’re not alone in the house.

Killer on the Road

Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an intervention disguised as a road trip. What they don’t realize is that Harper has been marked by a very unique serial killer who’s been trolling the highway for the past three years, and now the killer is after all of them in this fast-paced and deadly chase novel that will have your heart racing well above the speed limit as the interstate becomes a graveyard.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Now £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

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King Sorrow by Joe Hill is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, a chilling tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful… calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human sacrifice.

Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.

Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others—brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen—don’t hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world.

But there’s nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year—or become his next meal.

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Not a time-sensitive sale, but a cheap price for an anthology that's very cheap in the UK compared to the US.
The Living Dead by John Joseph Adams is £2 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?458840
I checked this out because I was interested in How the Day Runs Down by John Langan.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Not a time-sensitive sale, but a cheap price for an anthology that's very cheap in the UK compared to the US.
The Living Dead by John Joseph Adams is £2 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?458840
I checked this out because I was interested in How the Day Runs Down by John Langan.

This is correct, unless one wishes to borrow it as a KU title from Amazon [U.S.] for $0.00 (Remember, newer members, that KU is a subscription service.)

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Humble Bundle of horror books by Open Road and Tor
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/d...ad-media-books
Richard Matheson, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert McCammon, and others.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Humble Bundle of horror books by Open Road and Tor
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/d...ad-media-books
Richard Matheson, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert McCammon, and others.

An INCREDIBLE bargain. Over 15 McCammon titles. A total of 52 ebooks!

"Pay at least US$18 for these 52 items"

[Kieran Seymour]

Now that is some offer! And it's available in the UK which is unusual.

Anyway, I've tidied up the list for ease of use - lower tier books in bold.

The missing Matthew Corbett novel by Robert McCammon is currently down to £1.99 at Amazon UK and Kobo (£1.79 for VIPs).

Spoiler:

CAMPBELL ARMSTRONG
The Wanting

GREG BEAR
Dead Lines

ROBERT BLOCH
Psycho

POPPY Z BRITE
Are You Loathsome Tonight?

KEITH DONOHUE
The Boy Who Drew Monsters

WILLIAM H HALLAHAN
The Search for Joseph Tully

ED KURTZ
The Rib from Which I Remake the World

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
It Came from Del Rio
All the Beautiful Sinners
States of Grace
Sterling City
The Gospel of Z
The Least of My Scars
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
The Ones Who Got Away
Three Miles Past
Zombie Bake-Off
Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth

JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST
Let Me In
Harbor
Little Star

BRIAN LUMLEY
Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi
Beneath the Moors and Darker Places
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Stories

RONALD MALFI
December Park

RICHARD MATHESON
A Stir of Echoes
Hell House
I Am Legend

ROBERT McCAMMON
Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1)
Mister Slaughter (Matthew Corbett #3)
The Providence Rider (Matthew Corbett #4)
The River of Souls (Matthew Corbett #5)
Freedom of the Mask (Matthew Corbett #6)
Cardinal Black (Matthew Corbett #7)
The King of Shadows (Matthew Corbett #8)
Seven Shades of Evil (Matthew Corbett #9) (anth)
Leviathan (Matthew Corbett #10)
Boy's Life
Swan Song
Stinger
The Wolf's Hour
They Thirst

CHINA MIEVILLE
King Rat

DAVID NICKLE
Eutopia

STEWART O'NAN
A Prayer for the Dying

ANDREW NEIDERMAN
Child's Play

JEREMY ROBINSON
Island 731

MICHAEL ROWE
Wild Fell

JOHN SHIRLEY
Wet Bones

DAN SIMMONS
Song of Kali

THOMAS TRYON
Harvest Home

[Dr. Drib]

I'm still counting 15 McCammon titles, but see only 14 in your list.

Perhaps I have made a mistake...?

[Kieran Seymour]

It's definitely only 14 McCammons.

And having just checked at Humble Bundle, it looks like they made a mistake when the bundle went live - the offer's no longer available for those of us in the UK, and in fact the order in my Purchases now just produces an error message.

It's a good thing I downloaded them yesterday!

I'm also halfway through knocking some reality into the files in Calibre and Sigil - they are Open Road titles, after all! - like the one with two 11MB cover images. Let's just say that title has now been shrunk by a previously unheard of percentage...

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

It's definitely only 14 McCammons.

And having just checked at Humble Bundle, it looks like they made a mistake when the bundle went live - the offer's no longer available for those of us in the UK, and in fact the order in my Purchases now just produces an error message.

It's a good thing I downloaded them yesterday!

I'm also halfway through knocking some reality into the files in Calibre and Sigil - they are Open Road titles, after all! - like the one with two 11MB cover images. Let's just say that title has now been shrunk by a previously unheard of percentage...

I recounted: I was in error on counting the McCammon titles.

I encountered the issue of no longer seeing the bundle with my current account, so I downloaded the FREE Proton VPN, and now they are all visible and ready to purchase.