FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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A Man Among Ghosts - 99 cents sale (Usually 4.99)

You'll love this if you like the movie Jacob’s Ladder, Stephen King’s The Dead Zone or Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

After surviving a near-death experience, David finds himself haunted by ghosts in the old Victorian house he is renovating. These tortured souls beg for his help and offer him protection from a demonic presence that wants David dead for a crime he doesn’t remember committing. Even more surprising, he soon learns these are spirits of people who are not yet dead. Is this real, is he hallucinating, or is someone trying to drive him insane? As his paranoia ramps up, he discovers the truth is even more bizarre. The haunting won’t stop until he kills a man named “Fitz.”

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4T8NMWY...ookpagesite-20

Kobo
https://r.bookbub.com/promotion_site...raffic_source=

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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Closer to the the "literary" side of the spectrum. Was just nominated for the Kitschies. A few reviews:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/02...er-sea-by.html
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2...ulia-armfield/

Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.

[ZodWallop]

Not exactly horror, but Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King is $2.99 at Amazon and Kobo US.

In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” (The Washington Post).**

The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels…

Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands—unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans. Stephen King takes off on a “nerve-shredding, pulse-pounding race against time” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) with this acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller.

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Watchers by Dean Koontz is $1.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.

That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...

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When Things Get Dark - Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson edited by Ellen Datlow is $1 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Recent anthology. Some stories have already made their way to individual authors' collections.

Table of Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?853403

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Watchers by Dean Koontz is $1.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Two thumbs up for dog-lovers.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by curtw

Two thumbs up for dog-lovers.

Of course, if you own a dog similar to Cujo, then it would be two thumbs missing. Or perhaps a face.

But seriously: When I first read Koontz's book (when it was first published), I thought it was great.

[ZodWallop]

The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning is $1.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Looks like fantasy to me, so I'll cross post. But they're marketing it as horror and I did have it on my eReaderIQ list.

A thrilling race against the clock to save the world from fantasy creatures from a cult 80s film. Perfect for fans of Henson Company puppet classics such as Labyrinth, Dark Crystal and The Never-Ending Story.

Jack Corman is failing at life.

Jobless, jaded and on the “wrong” side of thirty, he’s facing the threat of eviction from his London flat while reeling from the sudden death of his father, one-time film director Bob Corman. Back in the eighties, Bob poured his heart and soul into the creation of his 1986 puppet fantasy The Shadow Glass, a film Jack loved as a child, idolising its fox-like hero Dune.

But The Shadow Glass flopped on release, deemed too scary for kids and too weird for adults, and Bob became a laughing stock, losing himself to booze and self-pity. Now, the film represents everything Jack hated about his father, and he lives with the fear that he’ll end up a failure just like him.

In the wake of Bob’s death, Jack returns to his decaying home, a place creaking with movie memorabilia and painful memories. Then, during a freak thunderstorm, the puppets in the attic start talking. Tipped into a desperate real-world quest to save London from the more nefarious of his father’s creations, Jack teams up with excitable fanboy Toby and spiky studio executive Amelia to navigate the labyrinth of his father’s legacy while conjuring the hero within––and igniting a Shadow Glass resurgence that could, finally, do his father proud.

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For May, Valancourt is celebrating Pride month with these two for 2.99 on Amazon



I did read The Servant as a digital borrow from the library, so skipping that one. Unusual, disturbing story.
Link - https://www.amazon.com/Servant-Robin...5680202&sr=8-1

Out For Blood - haven't heard of it but, according to their tweet, "Peyton Cooke's OUT FOR BLOOD (1991) was one of the few gay horror novels during the #PaperbacksfromHell era" - sounds interesting to me
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Blood-Joh...s%2C132&sr=8-1

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

For May, Valancourt is celebrating Pride month with these two for 2.99 on Amazon

Thanks for that!

Out For Blood - haven't heard of it but, according to their tweet, "Peyton Cooke's OUT FOR BLOOD (1991) was one of the few gay horror novels during the #PaperbacksfromHell era" - sounds interesting to me
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Blood-Joh...s%2C132&sr=8-1

I bought this one full price. I found a nice scan of the original Xtreme '90's cover.

[salty-horse]

The Spite House by Johnny Compton is $ in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Recommended by Kelly Link, among others.

A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making—The Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.

When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson property, notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Texas, needs a caretaker of sorts. The owner is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there. Provided the house’s horrors don’t drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.

The job calls to Eric, not just because there's a huge payout if they can make it through, but because he wants to explore the secrets of the spite house. If it is indeed haunted, maybe it'll help him understand the uncanny power that clings to his family, driving them from town to town, making them afraid to stop running.

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If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

One summer night in 1955, a boy and his cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Only one of them emerges.

Just as he had promised he would on that fateful night two decades earlier, Miles Teagarden—now divorced and a struggling writer—returns to his family home in Arden, Wisconsin. But the landscape he once knew so well has turned eerie and threatening. In the small town, his erstwhile friends and rivals, even his blood relatives, view him with suspicion. Their paranoia seems justified when another beautiful blonde teenage girl goes missing—much as his cousin Alison did all those years ago. Miles feels a dark force is at work, gathering strength. As the anniversary of the tragic night approaches, he begins to fear that Alison will find a way to make their date . . .

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Hey, fantastic! Peter Straub is one of my favorite horror authors. Now why didn't ereaderIQ tell me about this?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hey, fantastic! Peter Straub is one of my favorite horror authors. Now why didn't ereaderIQ tell me about this?

Perhaps they couldn't see you now! [OUCH!]

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Perhaps they couldn't see you now! [OUCH!]