FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[radbaddude]

Ferocious by Jeff Strand
Amazon US $0.99

Rusty Moss has raised his niece Mia since she was a baby. Now that she's almost eighteen, he's worried that the life he's given her—living off the grid in a cabin deep in the woods—is holding her back from her full potential. But that angst gets pushed aside when the undead forest animals arrive.

At first it's just a squirrel—shockingly violent and almost impossible to kill. Followed by a grizzly bear, also aggressive and resilient, even when point-blank shotgun blasts to the face are involved.

Now the cabin is surrounded by all manner of zombie creatures. They have no way to call for help. The truck that could take them to safety is three miles away, stuck in the mud.

But Rusty and Mia have their courage. They have their wits. And, most importantly, they have an axe and a fully fueled chainsaw...

[Paperbackstash]

I really like Jeff Strand as an author, grabbed!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Ferocious by Jeff Strand
Amazon US $0.99

Thanks for that!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hell Train by Christopher Fowler. It is Fowler's attempt to do a story in the vein of the old Hammer films.

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

Looks and sounds intriguing. Have you read it? I put it on my ereaderiq.

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Not yet. It's on my TBR after I finish Lonesome Days, Savage Nights and then read 11/22/63.

Well, 11/22/63 was supposed to be a group read and the other person wasn't ready to start, so I started Hell Train.

I've only read the first few chapters. The writing is very good. Smooth and professional. I was a bit put off by each chapter seeming to be an introduction that doesn't yet tie in to the others.

The first chapter has an American screenwriter paying a visit to the Hammer studio/mansion in the mid 60's. He's hired to write a script. When discussing possibilities with the head of Hammer, he mentions Peter Cushing had wanted to do a movie on a train.

I'm not a Hammer fanatic, but it was fun to see all the name checking done here.

Chapter two switches to an unnamed girl bored at home. She opens a forbidden game called Hell Train and starts playing with it. The game starts with an evil train leaving her own village of Chelmsk.

Chapter three is where what seems like a traditional Hammer horror begins. An English con artist is on the run and gets lost on the trains somewhere in Eastern Europe as World War I is breaking out. He gets off in the village of Chelmsk where everyone is treating the visiting Englishman pretty badly. He's planning on boarding the midnight train out of the village, even though the villagers keep telling him they are not aware of any midnight train.

That's it so far. I am curious to see how the threads wind up tying together.

Incidentally, I've had Fowler's Rune in paperback since forever, but haven't read it. For some reason it is not available as an ebook in the States (though several other titles by him are), but is available in the UK.

[ZodWallop]

Three of the five books in Mike Carey/M.R. Carey's Felix Castor series are on sale for $1.99 a piece. Hopefully book 1 goes on sale. it's the only one I'm missing.

Felix Castor is sort of a non-copyright infringing version of John Constantine. Carey was a long-time writer on Hellblazer. He also wrote the Lucifer and Unwritten series at DC before becoming a novel writer. His most popular book is likely The Girl With All The Gifts.

Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.

Vicious Circle
Dead Men's Boots
Thicker Than Water

[salty-horse]

400 Boys and 50 More by Marc Laidlaw is FREE today on Amazon.com
This is a huge anthology of the author's SF/F and Horror stories.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

400 Boys and 50 More by Marc Laidlaw is FREE today on Amazon.com
This is a huge anthology of the author's SF/F and Horror stories.

Thank you!

[Tarana]

Here's one of my favorite books.
Ghost Story By Peter Straub $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Supernatural

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Story-P...t%2C176&sr=1-4
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ghost-story-11

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Here's one of my favorite books.
Ghost Story By Peter Straub $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Supernatural

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Story-P...t%2C176&sr=1-4
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ghost-story-11

Ghost Story is one of the best horror novels I've ever read.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Ghost Story is one of the best horror novels I've ever read.

Better than 'Gary the Friendly Zombie'? *

* He wants to be friends with your brains!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Better than 'Gary the Friendly Zombie'? *

* He wants to be friends with your brains!

It's even better than Cat's Cradle, though just barely.

[Paperbackstash]

Ack, memories! I had that book as a teen and re-bought it as an adult. Creepy thing

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

It's even better than Cat's Cradle, though just barely.

And I was thinking Vonnegut when you wrote that! I'm glad I was wrong. (This was before you uploaded the cover.)

I do remember that cover, but I've never read it.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

And I was thinking Vonnegut when you wrote that! I'm glad I was wrong. (This was before you uploaded the cover.)

I do remember that cover, but I've never read it.

From what I've read of Johnstone, you aren't missing anything.

[ZodWallop]

Nathaniel by John Saul is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I've not read Saul. My mom used to love his books. For $2, I decided to pick it up.

For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear. Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit retumed to avenge the past. But soon . . . very soon . . . some will learn that Nathaniel lives still--that he is darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel--he is the voice that calls to young Michael Hall across the prairie night . . . the voice that draws the boy into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling, forbidden barn . . . that chanting, compelling voice he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror.