FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Maybe your reading tastes are more esoteric than mine, but Lumley's mix of spies, vampires and ESP is a little oddball to me. It worked though. I think there's now something like 18 books in the series.

I think our tastes do tend to overlap in some areas, however.

Right now, I'm reading some Bizarro fiction.

Also, right now, I'm heavily into thriller novels, many that are being offered by Kobo.uk.

[salty-horse]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is $1.99 on Amazon.com

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I think our tastes do tend to overlap in some areas, however.

Right now, I'm reading some Bizarro fiction.

Also, right now, I'm heavily into thriller novels, many that are being offered by Kobo.uk.

I've only read one bizarre fiction book: The Last Porno Theater by Nick Cato. It was a fun enough read, but as I read it I wound up wishing the writer had dropped the bizarre angle and had just written a straight fiction book, as the subject was very interesting.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Mary SanGiovanni (one of the old Leisure horror authors) has a book for sale at Amazon. It sounds very good, though it's also listed as the first in a series. Horror and series don't mix in my opinion, but I bought the book anyway:

Behind the Door by Mary SanGiovanni is $0.99

That does sound weird, Horror and series. Let us know if this is any good!

[ZodWallop]

In The Dark by Richard Laymon is on sale for $1.49. It was the first book of his that I'd read and remains my favorite. Probably because the premise is so simple.

Donnerville librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a 50-dollar bill and a note instructing her to "look homeward, angel" and signed "MOG (Master of Games)." So begins The Game—pushing Jane into crazy, immoral, and criminal actions. When she tries to quit, MOG has other ideas.

[Dr. Drib]

Here's a great price for Richard Laymon fans (that would include me) for an omnibus edition of 4 of his related novels for only £1.99 (Kobo.uk), titled The Complete Beast House Chronicles


Here's the link:

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...use-chronicles

[ZodWallop]

There's a few Laymon titles going for $1 each at Amazon US:

Funland
The Woods Are Dark
The Lake
Into the Fire
Bite

I didn't have Bite.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

There's a few Laymon titles going for $1 each at Amazon US:

Funland
The Woods Are Dark
The Lake
Into the Fire
Bite

I didn't have Bite.

I think I now have every Richard Laymon available as an ebook.

How do feel about cover art for authors? --- Check this out:

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...chfield=Author

I like this a lot, and much British ebook cover art seems to be designed this way.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I think I now have every Richard Laymon available as an ebook.

How do feel about cover art for authors? --- Check this out:

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...chfield=Author

I like this a lot, and much British ebook cover art seems to be designed this way.

You know, I've compared the art for British and US Laymon releases previously.

The British version is definitely classier. But in general, I think the schlockier US covers are more in tune with Laymon's style.

Honestly, the old '80's paperback horror trope of skeletons doing normal things (a cheerleader, a baby) would fit a Laymon book.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

You know, I've compared the art for British and US Laymon releases previously.

The British version is definitely classier. But in general, I think the schlockier US covers are more in tune with Laymon's style.

Honestly, the old '80's paperback horror trope of skeletons doing normal things (a cheerleader, a baby) would fit a Laymon book.

You must mean the wonderful Zebra cover artwork from the 1980s.

These are still great old horror covers. (Stephen Gresham and I were both published in Eldritch Tales back in the late 70's-to-early 80's.)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You must mean the wonderful Zebra cover artwork from the 1980s.

These are still great old horror covers. (Stephen Gresham and I were both published in Eldritch Tales back in the late 70's-to-early 80's.)

I love those lurid old covers!

[ZodWallop]

The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn is $0.99 at Amazon US

Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn’t come easy. Someone—or something—has other plans.

Like Aaron, Holbrook House is but a shell of what it once was, a target for vandals and ghost hunters who have nicknamed it “the devil’s den.” Aaron doesn’t believe in the paranormal—at least, not until a strange boy begins following him wherever he goes. Plagued by violent dreams and disturbing visions, Aaron begins to wonder if he’s losing his mind. But a festering darkness lurks at the heart of Holbrook House…a darkness that grins from within the shadows, delighting in Aaron’s sorrow, biding its time.

Now I'm sharing the book and I purchased it myself. The Amazon review is enthusiastic. But the first couple of reviews tamped my expectations a bit. Maybe read those before committing your hard earned dollar to the book.

[radbaddude]

Under the bronze moon by Richard J Obrian $1.29
In Under the Bronze Moon, Professor Harold Miller discovers the otherworldly inspiration for the late writer R.J. Hyatt's only published novel, The Land of Dust and Honey—a long, dense exploration into an alternate world discovered by a soldier of The Great War and a young girl from a different century. When his publisher tasks him with locating a 'lost novel' by Hyatt, the scholar travels to meet Hyatt's literary estate heir, May Weldon.

There he learns that May wants his assistance in her passing from this world. For his help, Miller is rewarded with a well-guarded treasure and access to the fabled world from which Hyatt drew his inspiration. For a scholar who devoted his adult life to R.J. Hyatt's work, it is a dream fulfilled. How long the scholar will remember his life-changing experience, after May is gone for good, is something else altogether.


Toroa by Erik Hofstatter $0.99

Infants are vanishing all over Waitangi, a small island nestled in the Pacific Ocean. The local tribe believes a colossal albatross is responsible. Worse still, they are convinced that the seabird had been trained to carry out these sinister kidnappings. On the other side of the globe, in England, a troubled Maori girl falls in love with Aryan — a charismatic fire-breather. As their doomed relationship unfolds, a tragedy strikes, leaving her forever changed. Grieving, she travels to the island in desperate search of her estranged father and seeking answers to her shrouded origins. Will her actions influence the mysterious events occurring on the isle?


Lights Out by Nate Southard $1.99

Burnham State Maximum Security Penitentiary holds the worst criminals humanity has to offer. Murderers, rapists, and others who have preyed upon humanity populate the prison, creating a food chain of violence and fear. Something lives beneath Burnham, however, and after years of waiting, it has been set free.

And it is hungry.

Now, those who call Burnham home must band together if they hope to survive. After years of being called monsters, they will face something much worse, and they will know how it feels to be prey.



The Faithful by Matt Hayward $2.99

At the Mountains of Madness meets They Live! in a new novel from Matt Hayward, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of What Do Monsters Fear?

After comedian Leo Cartwright performs his farewell comedy show in New York City, a young man ailed by cerebral palsy confides in him about odd dreams and a place he calls No Man’s Land. Leo thinks nothing of it until the man, Christopher Tate, winds up dead, along with a cryptic note taped to the comedian’s RV window: See you soon, Funnyman.

Leo sets out to find the truth about Christopher’s dreams to an odd town named Elswich. Shown to Leo in a dream by a mysterious man named Jarrad Prescott, the town prays to an Otherworldly god named Aypep and give their bodies to host his children in return for eternal life in the Otherworld.

It’s a wish granted through sacrifice…



They Feed by Jason Parent $2.99

The night uncovers all we wish not to see.

A troubled man enters a dusky park before sunset. A young woman follows, hidden in shadow. Both have returned to the park to take back something the past has stolen from them, to make right six long years of suffering, and to find justice or perhaps redemption—or maybe they'll settle for some old-fashioned revenge.

But something evil is alive and awake in those woods, creatures that care nothing for human motivations. They’re driven by their own insatiable need: a ravenous, bottomless hunger.

The campgrounds are full tonight, and the creatures are starving. Before the night is over, they will feed.

An unrelenting tale of terror from Jason Parent, acclaimed author of People of the Sun and What Hides Within.


Kill Hill Carnage by Tim Meyer $2.99

These woods are dark and full of monsters…

In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Some say a family of inbred cannibals was responsible. A masked psychopath with a butcher's knife is another popular theory. Some still believe a camp counselor lost his mind and went crazy on everyone with an axe. But there’s also the mysterious, derelict factory that sits nearby, atop Kill Hill. A place where urban legends are manufactured, the grotesque and bizarre.
Twenty-five years later, the factory on Kill Hill is still said to be operational, but no one can get near it. It’s safely guarded along with the secrets within. But there are a few loose strings and hitman Frank Harmon has been sent to tie them up. His kill list is short, but the night is long and full of unspeakable horrors. With the help of a few college students on an impromptu camping adventure, Frank must contain the mess at Kill Hill before it spreads to the neighboring towns. Before it infects the entire country. Before it invades the entire world.
From the fantastical, high-octane mind of Tim Meyer, author of Sharkwater Beach and In the House of Mirrors, comes his most frightening tale yet! Summer camp this year is at your own risk.

[ZodWallop]

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US. He also wrote A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World.

Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.

The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock.

Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connects them.

As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.

[ZodWallop]

Some $0.99 Laymon titles. Two I've read and enjoyed. Two I haven't read yet:

Island
Darkness, Tell Us
Body Rides
Friday Night in Beast House