FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Adam Cesare has a few books on sale for $0.99. I haven't read Adam, but I've been keeping an eye on him because Video Night (not on sale) sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe trying these other cheapies will convince me to just pay full price.

The Con Season is currently a #1 seller on Amazon, so he obviously has his fans.

The Con Season

Horror movie starlet Clarissa Lee is beautiful, internationally known, and...completely broke.

To cap off years of questionable financial and personal decisions, Clarissa accepts an invitation to participate in a “fully immersive” fan convention. She arrives at an off-season summer camp and finds what was supposed to be a quick buck has become a real-life slasher movie.

Deep in the woods of Kentucky with a supporting cast of B-level celebrities, Clarissa must fight to survive the deadly game that the con’s organizers have rigged against her.

The Summer Job

Massive nights, picturesque days: there is nothing Claire doesn't love about her summer job in Mission, Massachusetts. Claire is just trying to keep her head down and start a new life after burning out in the city, but those kids out in the woods seem like they throw awesome ragers...

It's only once she's in too deep that Claire discovers the real tourist trade that keeps the town afloat, it's then that her soul-searching in Mission becomes a fight for her life.

Crazed parties, dark rituals, and unexpected betrayals abound in this modern folk horror novel from the author of The Con Season and Video Night.

Exponential

Five strangers drawn together at a roadside bar on the outskirts of Las Vegas. One rampaging monster, escaped from a secret facility, absorbing victims and accumulating biomass as it moves north from Arizona. The miles between them rapidly dwindling.

No: this is not the world’s best math problem, it’s Exponential the rollicking, brutal, gory, and strangely poignant horror novel from Adam Cesare.

Criminals and screw-ups need to face down science run amok in this literary tribute to films like Tremors and The Blob.

[Dr. Drib]

^ Picked up all three.

And why the hell not? -- After all, I love poignant love stories and also poignant horror stories when someone's brains are bashed in for no apparent reason. But sometimes, I get so confused about what's what...

Thank you!

[Kieran Seymour]

Mirror of the Night

An anthology of ten stories by EC Tubb. Currently free in the UK and almost certainly elsewhere as it's from Endeavour.

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

From master storyteller E. C. Tubb comes ten chilling tales of dark fantasy and supernatural horror.

Set against a wall of trees, the old mansion squatted like a decaying beast, scabbed with lichen, beneath the sagging eaves. Lightning flashed over the twisted chimneys and brought into bright prominence the flaking bricks and mouldering tiles. The relic of a bygone age, to all appearances empty and with no sign of life as Stephen Aldcock and his wife, Diane, take refuge from the storm. But as lightning flashes again against the windows, some fickle form flickers in the glass.

[Dr. Drib]

And, as you surmise, it is indeed FREE in the United States of America as well.

Got it.

THANK YOU!

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Adam Cesare Video Night

Yes, that is a good read. Thanks for his others.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Mirror of the Night

An anthology of ten stories by EC Tubb. Currently free in the UK and almost certainly elsewhere as it's from Endeavour.

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Thanks!

[ZodWallop]

The Border by Robert McCammon is $2.99 at Amazon US.

World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.

But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan—a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity's salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.

[ZodWallop]

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix $1.99 at Amazon US.

An unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist that blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of ’80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller

The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

[Kieran Seymour]

This deal's been repeated more times than Friends and Frasier combined. Well worth it at the price though.

The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert

Currently 99p at amazon.co.uk.

The Caleighs have had a terrible year . . . They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work and Eve and the kids can have some peace and quiet and perhaps they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what’s happened to them . . .

Crickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil's Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge – the stuff of local legend. A river flows past the front garden. It's perfect for them, if a bit gloomy. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. And old houses do make sounds. And it's constantly cold. And even though they shut the cellar door every night, it’s always open again in morning . .

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

This deal's been repeated more times than Friends and Frasier combined. Well worth it at the price though.

The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert

Currently 99p at amazon.co.uk.

Not on sale in the US store. But the BBC miniseries is free on Prime Video: The Secret Of Crickley Hall

[Kieran Seymour]

Another 99p deal at amazon.co.uk.

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank- or what is left of Frank -waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions…and a little flesh and blood…

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Another 99p deal at amazon.co.uk.

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

$1.99 on Amazon US

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Another 99p deal at amazon.co.uk.

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

$1.99 on Amazon US

Thanks guys!

I remember when I first read Clive Barker's Books of Blood stories in those paperbacks with the cheesy/cool Halloween mask covers. I had never read stories like those before.

Over time I've learned that I prefer Clive's short stories to his novels, but he is a master.

[ZodWallop]

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge is $2.99 at Amazon US.

I very much enjoyed this short novel and it's a perfect October/Halloween read. It's usually overpriced at $7.99. But it's worth $3.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.

Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He's willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror--and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy...

[Dr. Drib]

^ Got it.

Thank you!

(Get a load of those other titles by different authors - on the same page. They look pretty interesting)