FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SF&F.

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes is $3 on Amazon.com DRM-free (Kobo is still full price, and while it's still price-matchable, the deal ends in 2.5 hours, so you'll need to take a screenshot and convince them it's real, etc)
Was on my wishlist since it's highly regarded (Zachary Gillan @ Ancillary Book Review, Niall Harrison @ Locus, Paul Di Filippo @ Locus)

He was sent to kill a pest. Instead, he found a monster.

One of BookPage's Most Anticipated SFF & Horror of Fall 2025

Enter the decadent, deadly city of Tiliard, a metropolis carved into the stump of an ancient tree. In its canopy, the pampered elite warp minds with toxic perfume; in its roots, gangs of exterminators hunt a colossal worm with an appetite for beauty.

In this complex, chaotic city, Guy Moulène has a simple goal: keep his sister out of debt. For her sake, he'll take on any job, no matter how vile.

As an exterminator, Guy hunts the uncanny creatures that crawl up from the river. These vermin are all strange, and often dangerous. His latest quarry is different: a centipede the size of a dragon with a deadly venom and a ravenous taste for artwork. As it digests Tiliard from the sewers to the opera houses, its toxin reshapes the future of the city. No sane person would hunt it, if they had the choice.

Guy doesn't have a choice.

[BetterRead]

Humble Bundle: The Dark Worlds of James Herbert

Pay at least $18 for the following 17 titles:

• The Rats
• Lair
• Domain
• The Fog
• The Survivor
• Fluke
• The Spear
• The Dark
• Shrine
• Moon
• Haunted
• The Ghosts of Sleath
• Ash
• Creed
• '48
• Others
• Nobody True

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

Humble Bundle: The Dark Worlds of James Herbert

Pay at least $18 for the following 17 titles:

• The Rats
• Lair
• Domain
• The Fog
• The Survivor
• Fluke
• The Spear
• The Dark
• Shrine
• Moon
• Haunted
• The Ghosts of Sleath
• Ash
• Creed
• '48
• Others
• Nobody True

A wonderful, but somewhat neglected writer of horror.

Read them all for only $18 and REJOICE!

You can't go wrong with The Rats. They're such cuddly creatures, their tiny little whiskers teasing your lips as they nuzzle close...closer...

[Cactus Chef]

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)

Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.

Ligotti’s stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.

[Kieran Seymour]

I noticed at the end of last week that a few Stephen King novels had started dropping to £2.99 in the UK again. Nothing particularly exciting, but another five have joined them today including Pet Sematary and The Gunslinger (Dark Tower #1), and King's Black House collaboration with Peter Straub is also down to £3.99.

That's the best price on all three for over a decade, so grab them quick!

Kobo UK | Amazon UK

[Cactus Chef]

Strange Buildings by Uketsu is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

The addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of The Times Bestseller Strange Pictures Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely... and you'll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it. Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu's dark mysteries. Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.

Gonna be honest, I read the previous Strange Pictures and Strange Houses and I found them mediocre...they have a definite "gimmick" that gets old pretty quickly. But for those that feel differently...here's another one.

[ZodWallop]

Whisperwood by Alex Woodroe is $1 at Amazon and Kobo US. Romanian horror brought to you by Flame tree Press.

A journey into the wild woods with a character who just needs a break—and the terrible things that stare back at her.

When curious nomad Anna hears about Whisperwood, a town that’s not on any maps, that nobody goes to, and nobody comes from, she sees an opportunity to hide from her violent witch-hunting ex.

But not everything is peaceful in the isolated community. A vanishing town, a gruesome funeral rite, an emergency field surgery—these surprises and more test Anna's resolve.

Prevented from leaving the frontier settlement by folk magic she doesn’t understand, Anna lends helping hands everywhere she can, but quickly finds that investigating the forest too closely could end up being the last thing she does.

[ZodWallop]

The Sarvàn by Douglass Hoover is $1.50. Amazon exclusive, so I won't be picking it up, though it sounds very good.

Midsommer meets All Quiet on the Western Front in this masterful blend of mystery, adventure, and folk-horror.

In the midst of the First World War, a handful of allied POWs escape the torments of Germany’s most brutal internment camp only to find themselves stranded deep in the merciless wilderness of the Alps.

The locals there are odd, and their traditions ancient. With hushed voices they whisper of a beast that roams the frozen mountains. They call it... The Sarvàn.

[salty-horse]

My Soul to Take (African Immortals #4) by Tananarive Due is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Reformatory, a heart-stopping novel that continues the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world.

Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation.

Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their healing “Living Blood” throughout the world, hoping to eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel, including beloved characters from her bestselling Joplin’s Ghost, in a war of good against evil, making My Soul to Take a chilling and thrilling experience.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Sarvàn by Douglass Hoover is $1.50. Amazon exclusive, so I won't be picking it up, though it sounds very good.

I'll report back.

[salty-horse]

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review

The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.

A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.

[Cactus Chef]

The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The definitive collection of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle

Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill, as well as filmmakers like Stephen Spielberg and J.J. Abrams. Matheson revolutionized horror by taking it out of Gothic castles and strange cosmos and setting it in the darkened streets and suburbs we recognize as our own. He infused tales of the fantastic and supernormal with dark explorations of human nature, delving deep into the universal dread of feeling alone and threatened in a dangerous world. The Best of Richard Matheson brings together his greatest hits as chosen by Victor LaValle, an expert on horror fiction and one of its brightest talents, marking the first major overview of Matheson's legendary career.

[Cactus Chef]

Seems like this latest Humble Bundle would be worth cross-posting to Horror:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/b...pen-road-books

Spooky scares and fabulous fantasy await

A curated anthology is only as good as its curator, and Ellen Datlow is one of the best. A veteran editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Datlow has polished and published tons of great short fiction stories from the likes of Ted Chiang, Patricia Briggs, Kelly Link, Dan Simmons, Harlan Ellison, and more, in anthologies so rich any one of them could be a collector’s item. Now, you can expand your collection with this bundle of the best of Datlow’s genre fiction anthologies—29 books in total! Test the limits of fantasy fiction with the short stories in Salon Fantastique! Keep yourself up at night with the tales of terror featured in Fearful Symmetries! Let your imagination run to the ends of the universe and back in The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy! Don’t miss the opportunity to check out all of these collections from Datlow’s award-winning catalog, and support Active Minds with your purchase at the price of your choice!

[salty-horse]

Fever House (Fever House Duology #1) by Keith Rosson is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .

But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.

Can you resist the hand?

[Dr. Drib]

^^^^^

Gotta [English Tr.: Have got to ] love severed hands.

That reminds me: Time to take one out of the freezer.