FREE/BARGAIN - Horror - 2014

[Froide]

Thanks; it helps if you include at least one url and a price, such as these:

Behind the Quiet Fences
by Rogelio Alfonzo

At Amazon.com, $2.99.

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Horror Stories by self-publishing champion J.A. Konrath writing as Jack Kilborn (SYKM, Wikipedia), a collection of his anthology/magazine-published shorts.

This collection features a menagerie of horror stories. Some are scary. Some are disturbing. Some are funny. Meet werewolves, vampires, zombies, psychopaths, aliens, cannibals, ghosts, and various things that go bump in the night.

Previously published in dozens of anthologies and magazines, some of these tales are mild, but some are extreme. Let the reader beware... (full list of the stories and descriptions in the actual blurb)

[ATDrake]

Free again from the small press re-publisher Books We Love via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Ten Past Midnight: Dark Tales and Poems by Jane Toombs (ISFDB), a collection of her dark fantasy & horror-themed short stories, some with a touch of supernatural romance, apparently. In addition to her sfnal writings, Toombs also happens to be a Samhain Retro Romance reprint author, in case you liked her romance work and were wondering about her horror-ish stuff.

Everything from ghouls to the heart-eating Egyptian beast who decides one's fate. Even the touches of romance are definitely different. But what traveler can expect the norm when on the wrong side of midnight?

[ATDrake]

X-link to the Comics megathread, since this offer is mostly for comics though there's a few backlist novels and an Ellen Datlow-edited anthology in there as well:

The "Humble Horror Books Bundle" set-your-own price, with bonuses for each tier of patronage, good for the next two weeks @ Humble Bundle (DRM-free ebooks/comics/music available worldwide)

[BetterRead]

Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season by Kealan Patrick Burke is currently FREE at B&N, Kobo, and Smashwords. ($2.99 at Amazon US.)

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke comes the second in his series of seasonal collections. Featuring seven reprints, a brand new story "The Toll", an introduction, and rounded out by the author's recommended reading and viewing lists, DEAD LEAVES makes for the perfect autumnal read.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season by Kealan Patrick Burke is currently FREE at B&N, Kobo, and Smashwords. ($2.99 at Amazon US.)

Now free at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-LEAVES-Ta...ke+kindle+thea

[Brendan Moody]

This week's one-day sale at Weightless Books is three titles from horror/dark fantasy publisher ChiZine Publications for $1.99 each: The 'Geisters by David Nickle, Wild Fell: A Ghost Story by Michael Rowe, and The Hexslinger Omnibus by Gemma Files. As the title suggests, the last combines three novels that were originally separately published, so it's an especially good deal.

[ATDrake]

Free from the small press publisher Severed Press via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Empire of the Dead by Ahimsa Kerp (ISFDB), a novel featuring zombies in Ancient Rome.

The Roman Empire was built at the expense of a thousand extinguished rivals, and during the reign of Domitian its long-forgotten enemies join together to enact a terrible curse. The dead began to walk, creating a plague of undead that sweeps across the Empire. And even the elite Roman forces, bolstered by war elephants, cannot hold them back.

The only hope of stopping the lifeless monsters is a disparate group of misfits and rogues led by the most ruthless Senator in Rome.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the Non-Fiction megathread for the aspiring horror writers in the audience:

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Nov 20th, DRM-free available worldwide from Weightless Books): To Each Their Darkness, by multiple Stoker Award-winning Gary A. Braunbeck (ISFDB, Wikipedia), his writing advice guide and author experience anecdotes, with particular emphasis on horror/suspense storytelling, which itself won the 2010 Stoker for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

[shemsha]

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King is now $3.75 at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GEEB52S

[AwfulWaffle]

Originally Posted by shemsha

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King is now $3.75 at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GEEB52S

Price matched at Google Play too

[Brendan Moody]

The sixth volume of Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Earlier volumes in the series have been bargain-priced before, but this is the first time for this latest volume.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Alphabet of Desire by British Fantasy Award-winner and 80s-era Fear Magazine editor John Gilbert (ISFDB), a collection of his short stories.

Strange curses, unnatural gifts and a spectre with a mission populate the second collection of horror stories from British Fantasy Award winner John Gilbert.

Award-winning journalist and author John Gilbert is the Managing Editor of FEAR Magazine. Alphabet of Desires is his second short story collection and is published as a prelude to his novel PassOver.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Cider Mill Vampires & This Town Eats Everything & Ghost Fist by Alan Spencer (ISFDB), 1st & 2nd in his humorous-looking Caleb Anthony paranormal tabloid reporter series, and 4th in his Shocker action/horror mashup series, respectively. These appear to be self-published, but Spencer is a Samhain-published author from whom we've previously received an official Samhain horror freebie, so if you liked his writing from that, you may wish to give a try to these.

The town of Smithville, Kansas, is nationally praised for its award winning apple cider. But all that changes when a group of vampires overrun the friendly cider mill. Soon, something else red and delicious will flow from these apple presses, and it's up to Caleb Anthony, a writer for "The Weekly Spectacle Digest" (a paranormal tabloid magazine) to stop the vampires from carrying on with their malevolent crimes. But will he too be "processed" before anyone can be saved?

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Ghosts of Chernobyl by Donna Burgess (ISFDB), a horror-ish sfnal short. Burgess has had a few short stories published in minor outlets.

When Anton was a young man, his grandfather gave him a magical elixir called “The Dancing Water,” guaranteed to cure any ailment. But when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred, Anton was forced to leave everything behind in his home in Pripyat –including “The Dancing Water.”

Years later, when his twin sister, Elena, is stricken with cancer, Anton is forced to reenter the Chernobyl contamination zone where ghosts of his long dead family lurk the shadows of the abandoned city.

Some say you can never go home again. But maybe you can, after all.

[koland]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Cider Mill Vampires & This Town Eats Everything & Ghost Fist by Alan Spencer

link - http://www.amazon.com/s/search-alias...ncer&price=0-0

[ATDrake]

Free from specialty LGBT publisher Lethe Press (seems to be via KDP Select this time, since unlike their other most recent freebie, this isn't currently in the other stores' catalogues) @ Amazon:

Town & Train by Canadian author James K. Moran (ISFDB, which also conflates him with British sci-fi screenwriter James Moran (no K.; IMDB, Wikipedia), but both have sfnal publication credits in Canadian & British venues, respectively), a literary-flavoured suspenseful horror novel involving a ghost train, set in Canada.

In a small Ontario town, seventeen-year-old John Daniel wakes by the railroad tracks with no recollection of how he got there. Something called him from his bed. Officer David Forester, a recent transfer from Toronto, struggles to fit into the local police force, despite resistance from established circles.

Both soon suspect a more pervasive and menacing collusion occurring in town when an antique steam train arrives late in the night. At the phantasmal engine, a conductor promises the desperate locals escape from their town dying with so many closed stores and shattered dreams--but there is no denying what the stranger really brings is the stuff of nightmares.

Free from the start up small publisher Severed Press via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

The Road to Hell is Paved With Zombies by Cedric Nye, 1st in his Zombie Fighter Jango series about Exactly What It Says In The Title.

Jango doesn't know it, but his vacation is about to go right to hell. However, the growing hordes of ravening undead aren't the only problems Jango is facing. His mind is breaking apart, and he is losing his grip on reality.
With bloodthirsty panache, Jango kills humans and zombies alike with whatever weapons he can find.
As his mind splinters, and then breaks,you will find out that THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH ZOMBIES.
Get your gear, because THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN!!

WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, STRONG LANGUAGE. Reader discretion is advised.

They also offer a repeat of Resurrection by Tim Curran (ISFDB), a medically-induced zombie thriller @ Smashwords (may be price-matched elsewhere; e.g. currently also free at Amazon for US, but not Canada)