FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[radbaddude]

Cunning Folk by Adam Nevill
Amazon US $0.99

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.

Within days of crossing the threshold, when hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, Tom's dreams of future contentment are threatened by an escalating tit-for-tat campaign of petty damage and disruption.

Increasingly isolated and tormented, Tom risks losing his home, everyone dear to him and his mind. Because, surely, only the mad would suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly powers. A malicious magic even older than the eerie wood and the strange barrow therein. A hallowed realm from where, he suspects, his neighbours draw a hideous power.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Cunning Folk by Adam Nevill
Amazon US $0.99

Got it!

Thank you!

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I was excited to get this, but I already have it.

Have you seen the movie? It's called Bad Moon. I haven't read the book yet, but have seen the movie twice and enjoyed it. It's free with ads on Amazon's Freevee right now.

I have not, but need to check it out!

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Ugh! Disregard my message below. You have to download an app to read the books. Not sure if I can get a refund on this.

It seems to work for ebooks (I had to go up top to eBooks/Flame Tree Press). But I have noticed a few where the 'add to basket' button is missing (including Ramsey Campbell's Ancient images).

Now my issue is keeping my choices realistic. I'm picking up Hellrider by JG Fahey (even though I didn't enjoy his Sins of the Father) because look at that cover! Also Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds by member here John Everson and Dust Devils by Jonathan Janz.

Shadow Flicker by Gregory Bastianelli also sounds very promising.

Wow really, how odd? I'm sorry, I feel bad since I'm the one who recommended it. I avoid books I have to download specific apps for

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Wow really, how odd? I'm sorry, I feel bad since I'm the one who recommended it. I avoid books I have to download specific apps for

No worries. I tagged the books in eReaderIQ. I guess I'm just spoiled by other UK publishers Rebellion/Solaris/2000AD and Angry Robot that just sell you DRM-free ePubs.

[Paperbackstash]

FINALLY Valancourt did some monthly sales today for the Month - on sale at Amazon 2.99 for Month of November

The House of the Wolf by Basil Copper

High above the Hungarian village of Lugos rise the towers of Castle Homolky, whose subterranean dungeons contain the remains of a chamber of horrors once used for the torture of enemies, and whose tragic and violent history has caused it to be known as The House of the Wolf. Into this legend-haunted region comes John Coleridge, an American professor and expert on lycanthropy, who is staying as a guest of Count Homolky while attending a conference on European folklore. After a villager is found dead with his throat torn out and a huge black wolf with seemingly preternatural powers is seen stalking the halls of the Castle, leaving scenes of bloody carnage in its wake, Coleridge and his colleagues must hunt the beast. But is the killer a wolf, or could the unthinkable be true: that one of the Castle's inhabitants is actually a werewolf?

After the success of his Victorian gaslight Gothic tale Necropolis (1980), published by the legendary Arkham House, Basil Copper (1924-2013) returned with another atmospheric Victorian chiller, The House of the Wolf (1983). This edition of Copper's classic includes an introduction by the author discussing the influences on his novel, including Universal and Hammer werewolf films and an afterword by award-winning editor Stephen Jones.

The Blood of Angels by Stephen Gregory -They warned this one is ultra dark. After reading a few more by Stephen Gregory, he does seem pretty grim

After a bruising experience as a teacher in Africa, Harry Clewe has come to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales for some peace and quiet. One day, he stops to pick up an attractive blonde hitchhiker ... and his life will never be the same again.

A desperate and wild obsession ends in a tragedy that condemns Harry to a solitary existence, a loneliness that bears its own depraved and bitter fruit. In the years that follow, his life is changed by a bizarre and ultimately dangerous succession of women. Driven on from crisis to crisis, from one catastrophe to the next, he knows joy, terror, despair ... and finally, the horror of his own worst impulses.

From the award-winning author of The Cormorant and The Woodwitch comes this disturbing and macabre story of one man's encounter with the savagery of human instincts and the cruelty of fate.

[Dr. Drib]

Thank you!

I didn't have the Stephen Gregory title.

[ZodWallop]

Wetbones by John Shirley is $1.00 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble (but not Kobo).

A flesh-and-soul-devouring addiction runs rampant through the dark playground of the Hollywood elite in this tale of horror from a Bram Stoker Award winner.

Welcome to Los Angeles, where every addiction is encouraged. . . .

Struggling Hollywood screenwriter Tom Prentice can hardly believe that the emaciated and mutilated corpse lying on the morgue slab was once his ex-wife. Then his roommate’s missing brother turns up in a local hospital having sliced open his own chest and legs for some sick, inexplicable reason. In Oakland, the Reverend Garner, a recovering addict, leaves his ministry in search of his teenage daughter, who was last seen in the company of her ghoulish kidnapper. And the Los Angeles police are meanwhile baffled in their hunt for the elusive “Wetbones” serial killer who leaves nothing of his victims behind except a damp, grisly pile of bones.

Though Tom, the reverend, and the LAPD are on separate quests for answers, they are all being led into the darkest shadows of Hollywood, where the debauchery never ceases and pleasure is a drug that devours human flesh, blood, and sanity. But the true source of the all-consuming addiction is the most horrifying revelation of all, for it is not of this rational Earth.

From International Horror Guild Award–winning author John Shirley, the acclaimed “splatterpunk” classic Wetbones combines the monstrous inventiveness of H. P. Lovecraft with the exquisite excess of Clive Barker. A true masterwork of modern terror, it’s decidedly not for the faint of heart.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

FINALLY Valancourt did some monthly sales today for the Month - on sale at Amazon 2.99 for Month of November

Thanks for the Valencourt titles. They feel like a company that doesn't go out of their way to sell their books.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Wetbones by John Shirley is $1.00 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble (but not Kobo).

OH, no! It went up to $1.99


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

OH, no! It went up to $1.99


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Doh! That's why I've been trying to stick to round numbers, like $2

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Doh! That's why I've been trying to stick to round numbers, like $2

So it went up $1.00 !!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The pain!

[ZodWallop]

I know $5 doesn't scream SALE! but The Hollow Ones, the first book in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's new project Blackwood Tapes is going for that price at Amazon. It's $10 at B&N and Kobo.

A horrific crime that defies explanation, a rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation spirals out of control in this heart-pounding thriller.

Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself -- it's the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent's body after his death.

Questioning her future with the FBI and her sanity, Hardwicke accepts a low-level assignment to clear out the belongings of a retired agent in the New York office. What she finds there will put her on the trail of a mysterious figure named Hugo Blackwood, a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries, and who is either an unhinged lunatic, or humanity's best and only defense against unspeakable evil.

From the authors who brought you The Strain Trilogy comes a strange, terrifying, and darkly wondrous world of suspense, mystery, and literary horror. The Hollow Ones is a chilling, spell-binding tale, a hauntingly original new fable from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Chuck Hogan featuring their most fascinating character yet.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Thanks for the Valencourt titles. They feel like a company that doesn't go out of their way to sell their books.

I think they prefer to sell physical copies and don't have enough of a profit to do too many discounts. Seems to be a struggling company as most of them are with smaller publishing. I definitely look forward to the sales as they are not as common and seem rather hidden

[Kieran Seymour]

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Currently 99p in the UK, or 89p for Kobo VIPs. Incredible value for a 2,000 page book, especially as a lot of the stories aren't out of copyright.

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

Contents of the original paperback edition at isfdb.org

It was one of my Halloween reads last year. There's some terrific stuff in there, and at least one story that's so unreadable it has to be seen to be believed!