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[ZodWallop]

The Darkest Lullaby by Jonathan Janz is $0.99 at Amazon US.

I got this a few days ago. It is still on sale right now.

The old house waited. For years there had been rumors that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex…and sacrifices. Then Lilith died and the house sat empty. Until now.

Lilith’s nephew, Chris, and his wife, Ellie, are moving in. Ellie isn’t happy about living in such a dark, foreboding place, but she wants to get pregnant and this house has a lot more room to raise a baby than their apartment. Unfortunately, she and Chris will soon learn that Lilith has other plans.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

He was one of the big 3 (or was it 4?) major contributors who wrote for the old Twilight Zone series with Rod Serling.

I've learned that from this thread! Fascinating stuff! I loved the original Twilight Zone.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

I've learned that from this thread! Fascinating stuff! I loved the original Twilight Zone.

You might want to set eReaderIQ to watch for sales on the following books:

Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
More Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
New Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Night Gallery by Rod Serling
Night Gallery 2 by Rod Serling
The Season To Be Wary by Rod Serling
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Richard Matheson
Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson
Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont

Those were the big TZ contributors.

I want to say there's a book (or books) of short stories that were adapted to Twilight Zone episodes, mixing stories from various authors. But I doubt they've been released as ebooks.

[BetterRead]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I want to say there's a book (or books) of short stories that were adapted to Twilight Zone episodes, mixing stories from various authors. But I doubt they've been released as ebooks.

This is a good one, featuring 30 of the original stories:



But you're right. It's not available as an ebook.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

You might want to set eReaderIQ to watch for sales on the following books:

Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
More Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
New Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Night Gallery by Rod Serling
Night Gallery 2 by Rod Serling
The Season To Be Wary by Rod Serling
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Richard Matheson
Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson
Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont

Those were the big TZ contributors.

I want to say there's a book (or books) of short stories that were adapted to Twilight Zone episodes, mixing stories from various authors. But I doubt they've been released as ebooks.

Thanks for the list!

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

He was one of the big 3 (or was it 4?) major contributors who wrote for the old Twilight Zone series with Rod Serling.

Charles Beaumont was another writer from that group.

In fact, I would recommend ANY short story by Beaumont.

There's a documentary available about Charles Beaumont, but we warned that it gets quite sad at times. It's called: Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man.

You can see part of it here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=183524370745

It's also available from Amazon, but the only available version appears to be a DVD-R.

[Dr. Drib]

^ Thank you for the link. I'll watch that.

I am, however, aware of his health issues involving Alzheimer's. Very, very unfortunate...

[ZodWallop]

I posted the third book in this series of novellas a while back. Now the first two are on sale, $0.99 each.

Mail Order Massacres. Here's the series synopsis:

Sea monkeys. 3-D specs. Hypno-coins. Ant farms. Kryptonite rocks. Miniature submarines made from cardboard. All available for a buck or less from the back page of comic books. And we blew our weekly allowance on these rip-offs, only to be disappointed when they turned out to be total crap.

But what if these bogus products had side effects not advertised? In horror master Hunter Shea’s MAIL ORDER MASSACRE, sometimes you do get more than you paid for . . .

Just Add Water

GROW AMAZING LIVE SEA SERPENTS!

It’s fun! It’s easy! They only cost a measly dollar. Just clip out the ad in your comic book. Then ask Mom to mail it in. A few weeks later, receive a packet of instant Sea Serpent dust. Then:

Just add water . . . and watch them grow!

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Just ask David and Patrick. Their “instant pets” are instant duds. They don’t hatch, they don’t grow, they don’t do anything. So they dump them into the sewer where Dad pours toxic chemicals . . .

WAIT UNTIL FEEDING TIME.

It’s been years since David and Patrick thought about those Sea Serpents. But now, small animals are disappearing in the neighborhood. Strange slimy creatures are rising from the sewers. And once the screaming starts, David and Patrick realize that their childhood pets really did come to life. With a vengeance. They’re enormous . . . and have a ravenous hunger for human flesh . . .

Optical Delusion

OPEN YOUR EYES WITH “X-RAY” VISION!

Put on a pair of “X-Ray” glasses and things will never look the same! These almost magical specs will make you the hit of the party! Astonishing three-dimensional X-Ray visions of what your friends—and girls—look like under their clothes! And all for just $1.

THE MORE YOU WEAR THEM . . .

Martin Blackstone punishes his son for wasting his allowance on a pair of flimsy cardboard sunglasses X-ray vision . . . yeah, right. Martin tries them on just for the hell of it—and all they do is give him a headache . . .

. . . THE DEEPER YOU’LL SEE.

Until he sees things he can’t possibly be seeing. Glimpses of things on the other side of a wall or beneath someone’s clothing. He wants to believe it’s just his overactive imagination but the “X-Ray” specs actually work. Then the fun novelty becomes a waking nightmare when the glasses burn into his face and he starts seeing horrifying apocalyptic visions no mortal man was ever meant to see. Images that alter his very personality—from a husband and father to a bloodthirsty homicidal maniac . . .

Because sometimes you can see too much.

There's also a collection of all three for $2.49.
Mail Order Massacres

[Number9]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I posted the third book in this series of novellas a while back. Now the first two are on sale, $0.99 each.



Mail Order Massacres. Here's the series synopsis:





Just Add Water





Optical Delusion





There's also a collection of all three for $2.49.

Mail Order Massacres

That sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks.

[ZodWallop]

The Searching Dead (The Three Births of Daoloth) by Ramsey Campbell is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Book 1 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.

1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can’t suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. A monstrous discovery beneath a church only hints at terrors that are poised to engulf the world as the trilogy brings us to the present day…

[ZodWallop]

The Devil's Equinox by John Everson is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Austin secretly wishes his wife would drop dead. He even says so one boozy midnight at the bar to a sultry stranger with a mysterious tattoo. When his wife later introduces that stranger as Regina, their new neighbor, Austin hopes she will be a good influence on his wife. Instead, one night he comes home to find his wife dead. Soon he's entranced with Regina, who introduces him to a strange world of bloodletting, rituals and magic. A world that puts everything he loves in peril. Can Austin save his daughter, and himself, before the planets align for the Devil's Equinox?

[ZodWallop]

Pressure by Jeff Strand is $0.99 at Amazon US. I have this in paperback from the old Leisure paperback days. I love the new 'retro' cover.

Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn't seen in years…

CHILDREN

They met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal. It was not an immediate friendship, but then one night Darren convinced his roommate to sneak off school grounds to see something glorious. There was a sleazy strip club, you see, and every once in a while the back door opened just long enough to maybe catch a quick glimpse…

Though a bond was formed from their pre-pubescent interest in naked women, Darren had another interest. A morbid curiosity about death. A curiosity that turned into something much more sinister.

FRIENDS

They crossed paths again in college and became the best of friends. But Darren wasn't just looking for a friend. He had dark, ghastly urges squirming around in his head, and he believed he saw the same things—the urge to hurt, the urge to kill—in Alex. He was looking for somebody who understood. A partner.

But Alex could never become a monster. Not even when Darren tried to bring out his friend's most deeply buried feelings of rage. Not even when Darren tried to show him the euphoria of having that much power over another human being. It just couldn't happen…right?

ENEMIES

Now Alex has a wife and a daughter. And Darren is back. He's hiding. He's patient. His mind is twisted in the worst possible way.

And he's seeking a soulmate.

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Pressure by Jeff Strand is $0.99 at Amazon US. I have this in paperback from the old Leisure paperback days. I love the new 'retro' cover.

Thanks!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Thanks!

Hey, if you bought Pressure and want a nice, high-resolution scan of the new cover, I had no luck with Amazon, Kobo, Google or Bing. But Jeff has one at his own site: https://jeffstrand.files.wordpress.c...2021_front.jpg

[ZodWallop]

They Kill by Tim Waggoner is $0.99 at Amazon US.

What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love?

Sierra Sowell's dead brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as Corliss. Corliss also transforms four people in Sierra's life into inhuman monsters determined to kill her. Sierra and Jeffrey's boyfriend Marc work to discover the reason for her brother's return to life while struggling to survive attacks by this monstrous quartet.

Corliss gives Sierra a chance to make Jeffrey's resurrection permanent - if she makes a dreadful bargain. Can she do what it will take to save her brother, no matter how much blood is shed along the way?