Free/Bargain Horror April 2013

[Dr. Drib]

To copy NightBird's words:

"Please don't post any self-published books, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates. Thanks!"

Let's start the April listings with post #2.



Don

[caleb72]

Woohoo - Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge is currently free for two days (apparently) at Amazon.

It was the winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

Quick - jump in and grab while you can.

Amazon (US)

Forget everything you know about Halloween. The stories are distortions. They were created to keep the Church of Midnight hidden from the world. Every October 31st a gateway opens to a hostile land of sacrificial magic and chaos. Since the beginning of civilization the Church of Midnight has attempted to open the gateway and unite with its other half, the Church of Morning. Each year they’ve come closer, waiting for the ideal sacrifice to open the gateway permanently.

This year that sacrifice has come. And only two can protect it. Martin and Teresa are the nomads, battle-hardened people who lack identity and are forever road-bound on an endless mission to guard the sacrifice. Their only direction is from notes left from a mysterious person called the Messenger. Endowed with a strange telekinetic power, the nomads will use everything at their disposal to make it through the night alive. But matters have become even more complicated this year. Teresa has quickly lost ground battling cancer, while Martin has spiraled into a panic over being left alone. His mind may no longer be on the fight when it matters most... because ever on their heels is the insidious physical representation of a united church: Chaplain Cloth.

"With BLACK & ORANGE, Benjamin Kane Ethridge raises a dark new voice that will send a shiver down your spine. Weird, creepy and unnaturally entertaining!" --Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE WOLFMAN and THE DRAGON FACTORY

"Black & Orange may be the most original treatment of Halloween I've ever read, a masterful pumpkin patch of style and structure that heralds the arrival of a major new talent in Benjamin Kane Ethridge. The pages drip with a unique energy that transports the reader to a weird, wild, and terrible world that's as giddy and frightening as a hayride on October 31st." -- Gregory Lamberson, author of JOHNNY GRUESOME and THE FRENZY WAY

"A remarkable novel, dark and imaginative and unique. It keeps the pages turning!" --Nate Kenyon, author of THE BONE FACTORY


"BLACK AND ORANGE begins like a train and just keeps rolling. Benjamin Kane Ethridge has crafted a dark, yet colorful fantasy, with vivid characters and some of the punchiest dialogue I have read in a long time. Trust me, this book belongs on your must-read list." --Rio Youers, author of MAMA FISH and OLD MAN SCRATCH

[pstjmack]

Picked it up already - cool looking title.

[Prestidigitweeze]

Picked it up for the color scheme, of which I happen to be fond:

[Critteranne]

I like orange and black myself.

[mr_nihilism]

Black & Orange is available for Canadians too !

http://www.amazon.ca/Black-Orange-eb...ack+%26+orange

[Prestidigitweeze]

What I want to know is this: Are the Aureoles -- oops, I meant Orioles -- available to Canadians as well?

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze

What I want to know is this: Are the Aureoles -- oops, I meant Orioles -- available to Canadians as well?

They play in Toronto sometimes.

[Pookeysgirl]

Originally Posted by Critteranne

They play in Toronto sometimes.

They'll be in Toronto May 23-26

[slex]

Abandon by Blake Crouch is currently free at Amazon. And if you get the Kindle version, the audiobook is $2,29.

This could also go to the Mystery/Suspense thread, based on the book's description:

On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman and child in a remote gold mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins; and not a single bone was ever found. One hundred thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to lead them into the abandoned mining town so that they can learn what happened. With them is a psychic, and a paranormal photographer—as the town is rumored to be haunted. A party that tried to explore the town years ago was never heard from again. What this crew is about to discover is that twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they are not alone, and the past is very much alive.

[NightBird]

Everybody Scream!by Jeffrey Thomas is $.99 from Raw Dog Screaming Press. This is part of his Punktown series. SF-Horror.

Jeffrey Thomas first seduced readers to the world of Punktown through a short story collection of the same name, bending time and technology to create a futuristic world which felt more real than our own. Everybody Scream! continues the seduction with characters every bit as vibrant only this time each person's story collides with the others in a dizzying thrill-ride of a novel.

It's the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn, it's a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the trials they will face and how severely this one day will test their relationship. In fact, closing day seems to be a catalyst for many Punktown residents; drawing them in, stirring them up and letting them loose on each other.

This roller coaster tale builds to a peak of expectation then plummets, twisting and turning, a breathtaking juggernaut to the final chapters with plenty of screams and giggles along the way.

[NightBird]

Free from Grindhouse Press: Zombieville by C.V. Hunt.

Chris is your friendly neighborhood zombie. He has desires and hungers just like the rest of the undead, which is convenient since his brother, Spencer, is the village mortician. There's just one problem: Spencer has met a girl. There's no winning for Chris. If things go well with the girl, Spencer is going to neglect him. If things go poorly, the consequences could be very far reaching. What's a zombie to do?

[NightBird]

Free from Evil Jester: Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez.

As an early winter whiteout blankets the small town of Keme, a series of grisly murders paints the fresh snowfall in ominous tones. There's a savage killer on the loose, but is it man or beast? With every new clue Sheriff Aaron Bishop uncovers, another reasonable explanation goes out the window, and with each new body discovered another suspect is eliminated. An old Algonquin Indian claims to know the truth and how to end the bloodshed. But his truth is the stuff of legend and his answer too barbarous for Aaron to even consider.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free from Evil Jester: Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez.

Oooh Wendigo! Count me in. Thanks for that.

[koland]

The Twelfth Tablet by Tom Harper
Hodder & Stoughton (pre-order)

Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Twelfth-Ta.../dp/B00C2V4W2W

(appears to be a short story)