FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

Scare Street as a collective puts out some interesting stuff! Ron Ripley is good. His Berkeley Street comes up free periodically and is well worth the time to read. I may follow the series.

I think I have that one. Got it free also.

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

...my opinion of their factory-work...

Yes! That's what I was trying to get at in my post. You said it better than me,

[salty-horse]

Crossposted to SF/F thread.
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is $2.99 on Amazon.com

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I think I have that one. Got it free also.

It comes up free pretty often. I do love a good ghost story and this one had some originality to it. The wriiting was good too.

[ZodWallop]

I'm not British, so don't recognize TV presenter Muriel Grey. But she wrote three well regarded horror novels.

Not sure if it is a sale, but they are cheap on Amazon. Two are $1.99 each and the third (her most popular?) is an OUTRAGEOUS $3.49.

The Trickster

He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.

Life is good in Silver, a small town high in the Canadian Rockies. Sam Hunt is a lucky man. with a loving family and an honest income, he has everything he wants.

But beneath the mountains a vile, demonic energy is gathering strength and soon it will unleash its freezing terror upon Silver. In the eye of the storm, one man struggles to bury the private horrors of his childhood. He knows nothing, yet seems to know everything: Sam Hunt.

All he loves may be destroyed by an evil beyond imagining. An evil from the buried, hated past. An evil named the Trickster.

The Ancient

Alien, on a container ship.
‘Scary and unputdownable’, Stephen King

Amongst towering mountains of trash in the backstreets of Lima, three young boys are trying to raise an ancient demon. They don't think their incantation has worked; but that night a teenage drugrunner is gunned down across their makeshift altar. As his killers walk away, his body stirs. Not because it still contains a spark of life. But because something is stirring beneath it…

Port Callao. The MV Lysicrates, a three-quarter-mile long supertanker, is being loaded with hundreds of tonnes of trash. Watching from the bridge, in a bleary state of hungover gloom, is second-in-command Matthew Cotton; more interesting is the arrival of a young American student who has missed the boat she should have been on.

They should have paid more attention to the trash.

Furnace

From the author of The Trickster, an unnerving tale of latterday alchemy and the horrors brooding beneath the placid surface of life in one small town in America.

Something is being born.
The darkness is its delight, deep and black and hot.
Its growth is unstoppable.
It knows who has summoned it.
It knows that its carrier is aware and afraid.
Its time is drawing near…

When long-distance truck driver Josh Spiller pulls into the small backwater town of Furnace, Virginia, he has a lot on his mind. He’s been driving for thirty-six hours straight after busting up with his pregnant girlfriend; he’s tired and hungry, and all he wants is to get some breakfast and rest up.

But Furnace has something special in store for Josh. Amongst the surprisingly affluent houses, the neat streets and smartly-dressed townsfolk lurks the stuff of living nightmare. A sequence of events is about to be unleashed that will test Josh to the edge of his endurance. A world of sorcery and malice is waiting to gather him in. For behind the prosperity of Furnace lie terrible secrets; and a terrifying fate in store for those who take an unwarranted interest.

Even now, as Josh searches for a place to stop, his electric-blue Peterbilt roaring through the gears, the eyes of the town are upon him.

The nightmare is beginning…

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I'm not British, so don't recognize TV presenter Muriel Grey.

Never heard of her. :P

But I may check out her Horror novels if they're well regarded.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

Never heard of her. :P

But I may check out her Horror novels if they're well regarded.

From Wikipedia:

Muriel Janet Gray FRSE is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist. She came to public notice as an interviewer on Channel 4's alternative pop-show The Tube, and then appeared as a regular presenter on BBC radio. Gray has written for Time Out, the Sunday Herald and The Guardian, among other publications, as well as publishing successful horror novels. She was the first woman to have been Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art.

Most importantly, (aside from her horror novels) she was part of a punk band, The Family Von Trapp. I don't know that band. But it makes me like her.

[ZodWallop]

Black Ambrosia (Paperbacks from Hell) by Elizabeth Engstrom is $2.99 at Amazon US.

This is the first Paperback From Hell I've seen on sale. Hopefully Valencourt will start to put other books on sale.

Angelina is a killer. You'd never know it to look at her—until you look into her eyes.

Angelina doesn't kill out of hatred or fear—she kills out of love, bringing solace to her victims, guided by the seductive Voice that speaks only to her.

Angelina offers you eternal peace—at the cost of your soul!

[ZodWallop]

The Drowning Pool by Syd Moore is $0.99 at Amazon US.

I had this on my ereaderiq list, though I can't remember where I heard about it. The novel was inspired by the legend of a 19th Century Essex woman - the Sea Witch Sarah Moore.

After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake … A classic ghost story with a modern twist by a talented new writer in the genre.

Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent séance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them as But Alfie sees them too and Sarah believes that they have become the targets of a terrifying haunting.

Convinced that the ghost is that of a 19th Century local witch and namesake, Sarah delves into local folklore and learns that the witch was thought to have been evil incarnate. When a series of old letters surface, Sarah discovers that nothing and no-one is as it seems, maybe not even the ghost of Sarah Grey…

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Black Ambrosia (Paperbacks from Hell) by Elizabeth Engstrom is $2.99 at Amazon US.

This is the first Paperback From Hell I've seen on sale. Hopefully Valencourt will start to put other books on sale.

Thank you! I did read The Nest last year and enjoyed it. Have been trying to watch for the paperbacks from hell going on sale.

[radbaddude]

Last Days by Brian Evenson
Amazon US $1.99

Brian Evenson’s Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who’s cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes amputation brings one closer to God. Kline is tasked with finding the cult leader’s killer. But to get to the truth, Kline must lose himself—literally—one body part at a time.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

From Wikipedia:


Most importantly, (aside from her horror novels) she was part of a punk band, The Family Von Trapp. I don't know that band. But it makes me like her.

Cool! I don't read any of the publications where she's published so hadn't heard of her.

[ZodWallop]

In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson is $1.99 at Amazon US.

A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.

One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.

Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper the next morning—with no sign of a girl, no memory of the night before.

Annabelle Gaskin spies the camper parked behind her motel and offers the cowboy a few odd jobs to pay his board. Travis takes her up on the offer, if only to buy time, to lay low and heal. By day, he mends the old motel, insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night, in the cave of his camper, he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long, Annabelle and her boy come to realize that this strange cowboy is not what he seems.

Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he’ll have to decide how far into the darkness he’ll go for the sake of justice.

When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night, an old evil will find new life—and new blood.

[Dr. Drib]

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Got it.

Thank you!

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

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Got it.

Thank you!

Ditto

[ZodWallop]

Saving Grace by Fred Anderson is $0.99 at Amazon US.

A grieving husband has just been offered a miracle ... but some miracles come with a price.

A sunny Saturday morning turns into tragedy for Mike Ballard when his wife Annie, pregnant with their second child, is killed in a horrific accident. In the blink of an eye his life unravels and he spirals into darkness, blaming himself for their deaths in his struggle to cope with the loss.

Three days later as Mike sits alone at Annie’s grave, a stranger approaches and asks a tantalizing question: Do you believe in miracles? He shares with Mike an incredible story of his own wife’s death, and an old woman in the hills of Tennessee he says resurrected her … then provides undeniable proof of his claims.

Do you want me to keep talking? the man asks, because he’s there at the behest of the old woman, with an invitation.

Tell Mike to come see me about his Annie.

I have Fred's Charnel House, but haven't yet read it.