FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling is $2 at Amazon and Kobo.

Picked it up from Amazon.

Thank you!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

Thanks! Still waiting for Last to Leave the Room to go on sale.

[ZodWallop]

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King is $3 at Amazon and Kobo.

From master storyteller Stephen King, his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” (The New York Times)—also a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor!

Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone—who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining—the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival...

[ZodWallop]

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay is $2 at Amazon and Kobo.

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.

The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.

The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned.

[Kieran Seymour]

A short story freebie in the UK: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier.

Amazon | Kobo

It looks like it's to publicise a new collection of her stories that's out next week.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SF&F.
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

“Do you mind me asking—what kind of help do you need?”

After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?

But you have to get your hands dirty if you want your garden to grow—and Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.

When the choices are to either bury yourself in the warmth of someone else’s fertile soil, or face the cold and disappointing world outside—which would you choose? And what if putting down roots came at a cost far higher than just your freedom?

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay—and working retail at the end of the world.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SFF.
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou is $2 on Amazon.com (only there, and it's a "digital list price" discount, so no Kobo price matching)
A Bluebeard retelling. Debut novel by a prolific short story writer.

“Harrowing…a fairytale for the ages, subverting the tale of Bluebeard to deconstruct the systems of gender, power, and the excuses people make for bad men.” —Chicago Review of Books

“A murder ballad sung in a dark room — it’s slow, haunting and strangely beautiful.” —The New York Times Book Review

The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark forest. As he grows into a boy, then into man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Trees wither at the roots, fruits rot on their branches, and the town turns against him. The man takes a wife, who bears him a son. But tragedy strikes in cycles and his family is forced to consider their own malignancy—until wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. The ghosts become a chorus, and they call urgently to our narrator as she tries to explain, in our very real world, exactly what has happened to her. The ghosts can all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin: If you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.

Natalia Theodoridou’s haunting and unforgettable debut novel, Sour Cherry, confronts age-old systems of gender and power, long-held excuses made for bad men, and the complicated reasons we stay captive to the monsters we love.

[salty-horse]

One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

A scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. This Leigh Radford debut is full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour.

Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.

But Kesta has a secret . . .

Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.

A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But Kesta is running out of drugs – and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?

[Dr. Drib]

Storybundle Horror Bundle:

Total price for all 13 books is $25 minimum.

This seems to be an undue increase. I won't be touching it at that price.

Or you can buy the 3 'regular' books for a total minimum of $5.

Here's the link if this bundle is of interest to anyone:

https://storybundle.com/ghosts?utm_s...tsandhauntings

[radbaddude]

Cursed by Leigh Kenny
Amazon US $0.99

Have you ever agreed to something without understanding the consequences?
What would you do if a cursed object came into your possession?

Burn it?

Seek spiritual help?

Pass it on?

This is the impossible choice Curtis must face as a sinister entity is thrust upon him. As the walls close in and the evil takes hold, he must act before his life is forever altered.

Curtis is haunted.

Curtis is afraid.

Curtis is... Cursed

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Carrie by Stephen King is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Carrie White is no ordinary girl.

Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.

To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first
step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.

But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she
is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .

[salty-horse]

Books 2 and 3 in the Molly Southbourne trilogy of novellas by Tade Thompson are on sale.

These are about a girl that when she bleeds, she spawns murderous clones of herself.

The Survival of Molly Southbourne is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

[Kieran Seymour]

Loads of autumnal horror on offer at Kobo here in the UK.

And just to pick a few 99p bargains at random, Interview with a Vampire, Let the Right One In, and The Woman in Black are eligible for 10x Kobo Super Points. I imagine there's more.

[BetterRead]

The Elementals by Michael McDowell is currently $2.99 at Amazon US.

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again ...

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

The Elementals by Michael McDowell is currently $2.99 at Amazon US.

Missed it!