FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by nprentiss

I'm dyin' after reading a review posted for one of Gresham's books:

5.0 out of 5 stars W.O.W.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2019
Stupendous. Brilliant. Excellent. This should be required reading in every school. Readers will love this mesmerizing tale. I should know, for I am the author!

I kind of want to check those books out. They are a new gothic horror trilogy he wrote. Apparently, something he wanted to write for a long time. I'm glad he got them out.

The ease of publishing e-books has lead to some neat things.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Oh, ouch. I don't care for that either.

More of us need to speak up so they get the message.

If they want to be script writers, let them write scripts in present tense. For novels, the occasional passage for immediacy works but not the entire novel!

I reject Kindle samples out of hand when I find they're written that way. Just no.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

It's not too late, is it?

Let the attachment below inspire you to great artistic heights! (This is one of my favorite covers - ever.)

That's pretty twisted. I like this one (don't know how to attach a picture).
https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Tal.../dp/B07Z7N21H4

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

That's pretty twisted. I like this one (don't know how to attach a picture).
https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Tal.../dp/B07Z7N21H4

Looks interesting...rolly-polly heads served on a platter, in extreme agony - with mouths open - always excite me!

Attachments: The simple way and the way to keep attachments at the correct size without violating the Posting Guidelines, just do this: Write your comment, and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Find the image on your computer and upload it. Save and exit. (If you meant how to first save the image to your computer, just 'Save image as' on the Amazon site and save it to your computer.)

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

More of us need to speak up so they get the message.

If they want to be script writers, let them write scripts in present tense. For novels, the occasional passage for immediacy works but not the entire novel!

Then again, Gravity's Rainbow.

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

More of us need to speak up so they get the message.

If they want to be script writers, let them write scripts in present tense. For novels, the occasional passage for immediacy works but not the entire novel!

I reject Kindle samples out of hand when I find they're written that way. Just no.

I used to hate present tense -- except for an occasional chapter, like the chapter written from the POV of the serial killer (or dog) or whatever. It annoyed me when I tried to get into legal thrillers because a lot of those authors thought they should use present tense because that's what Scott Turow used for Presumed Innocent. But it worked for Presumed Innocent (unless you loathe present tense) for a reason. (Because you weren't sure if the MC was telling the truth.) For most legal thrillers, it didn't work.

Then, I started reading some of the newer (at the time) young adult "problem" novels. And because a lot of them were in present tense at the time, I got used to present tense.

And now, I'm reading a lot of psychological suspense, and some of those use present tense. It often works with that type of book -- especially with unreliable narrators.

[Dr. Drib]

^

This is especially useful for unreliable narrators:

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Lolita - Nabokov
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson

Psychos, murderers, mentally challenged individuals, social misfits, etc.
And people who smoke pipes.

[ZodWallop]

Positive by David Wellington is $1.99 at Amazon.

Wellington was an early success in the self publishing biz with his hit Monster Island. He was picked up by the big boys. I read Monster Island and thought it was silly. Still, he has his fans.

Anyone can be positive . . .

The tattooed plus sign on Finnegan's hand marks him as a Positive. At any time, the zombie virus could explode in his body, turning him from a rational human into a ravenous monster. His only chance of a normal life is to survive the last two years of the potential incubation period. If he reaches his twenty-first birthday without an incident, he'll be cleared.

Until then, Finn must go to a special facility for positives, segregated from society to keep the healthy population safe. But when the military caravan transporting him is attacked, Finn becomes separated. To make it to safety, he must embark on a perilous cross-country journey across an America transformed—a dark and dangerous land populated with heroes, villains, madmen, and hordes of zombies. And though the zombies are everywhere, Finn discovers that the real danger may be his fellow humans.

[ZodWallop]

Drought by Graham Masterton is $1.99 at Amazon US.

What would happen if the water ran out?

Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don’t know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most.

But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn’t rained for months, and now, in the height of summer, the taps run dry. And not, as they first suspect, because of a burst water main. In the deprived areas where Martin works, the water’s been intentionally cut off. And it’s his job, he discovers, to tell the families he cares for not to panic.

Martin soon has more problems than lack of water. His daughter is sick with fever. And as riots over bottled water start, Martin’s teenage son is framed, and arrested, for a terrible crime. Soon Martin is left with no choice but to take drastic action to save his family, while corrupt politicians try and use the situation to their advantage, with calamitous results . . .

[ZodWallop]

Another McCammon omnibus: The Southern Novels: Boy's Life, Mystery Walk, Gone South and Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon is $3.99 at Amazon US. Again, I already have individual copies of all four.

EreaderIQ says this collection was $2.99 once upon a time. Still, a buck a book is a very good deal.

From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these four unforgettable novels.

A Boy’s Life: “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” McCammon’s World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning novel takes place in 1964 Alabama, where a twelve-year-old boy’s idyllic life takes an abrupt turn into a dark world of mystery when he and his father witness a car roll into a lake—only to discover a corpse handcuffed to the steering wheel (Kirkus Reviews).

Mystery Walk: Two boys with mysterious powers—a psychic who speaks with the dead and a faith healer—share a common bond and hold mankind’s fate in their hands in an epic showdown of good versus evil.

Gone South: A veteran’s moment of rage leads to a grisly murder and a heated chase deep into the bayou, where he encounters a pair of bizarre bounty hunters—and a strange new friend, who might help him find redemption

Usher’s Passing: Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is no fiction in this Gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, as the heir to the Usher legacy—a horror novelist—confronts his terrifying inheritance.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by nprentiss

I'm dyin' after reading a review posted for one of Gresham's books:

5.0 out of 5 stars W.O.W.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2019
Stupendous. Brilliant. Excellent. This should be required reading in every school. Readers will love this mesmerizing tale. I should know, for I am the author!

[ZodWallop]

The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Isolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong. As the evil spreads, Moonwell becomes cut off from the rest of the world…

[ZodWallop]

The Pariah by Graham Masterton is $0.99 at Amazon US.

The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John and Jane Trenton to start their life together. But disaster strikes and Jane and their unborn child are killed. John's grief is total, so when he starts to see the ghostly apparition of his wife he almost welcomes this supernatural phenomenon.

Yet all is not what it seems, and this sinister spirit is not Jane, but something altogether evil and terrifying. In a bid to rid himself of this horrific spectre he soon finds that many more in the town have been victims of unwanted visitations. And when he discovers the body of a local busybody, impossibly impaled on a still hanging chandelier, he knows something must be done. But how do you kill the undead?

As he searches for an explanation he uncovers a link to a mysterious ship, lost around the time of the nearby Salem witch trials. For three centuries the rotting wreck of the David Dark has lain beneath waves, but an awful secret is concealed in the chill waters...

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Pariah by Graham Masterton is $0.99 at Amazon US.

So I looked up the original Tor Horror cover for Pariah. Try to tell me the artist didn't wholesale steal Shelly Duvall's face from The Shining:


I used the cover anyway

[Paperbackstash]

Wow, you're not wrong. Pretty hard to deny obvious similarities there.