FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Here's a FREE PDF download of issue 1 of a magazine titled Witch House: Amateur Magazine of Cosmic Horror.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Qa...r8DWnLV_5/view

The PDF is quite readable (though small) on my Kindle Oasis and, I would imagine, even better suited to the Kobo Sage.

Issue number 2 will be available later in the year.

(I have no affiliation with the magazine.)

Thank you! Easily readable on desktop.

[ZodWallop]

3 Ronald Malfi books are $1.99 a piece.

Little Girls

Years ago, Laurie escaped the troubled house where she was raised. Now she is returning, with her husband and ten-year-old daughter, to claim the estate. But even though her father exorcised his demons in a final act of desperation, the past refuses to die. Laurie can feel it lurking in the broken moldings and empty picture frames. She even hears it laughing in the moldy greenhouse deep in the woods . . .
At first, Laurie thinks she’s imagining things. But when she meets her daughter’s new playmate, she notices her uncanny resemblance to another little girl who used to live next door—and died next door. As Laurie’s uneasiness grows stronger, her thoughts get more disturbing. Is she slowly losing her mind like her father did? Or is something truly unspeakable happening?

Come With Me

Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.

Yet Aaron is unprepared to discover the dark secrets Allison kept, the death and horror that make up the tapestry of her hidden life. And with each dark secret revealed, Aaron becomes more and more consumed by his obsession to learn the terrifying truth about the woman who had been his wife, even if it puts his own life at risk.

Cradle Lake bounced back up right as I was going to purchase it!
Cradle Lake

New beginnings . . .

In the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains, an aging house leaves much to be desired, but Alan Hammerstun hopes it will be the fresh start he and his wife, Heather, need after her two miscarriages and later suicide attempt. But Heather remains distant and depressed and Alan is soon drawn to the woods behind the house—and the small lake hidden there. When he sees an injured child healed by its waters after being hit by a car, Alan becomes privy to the town’s greatest secret.

But for every benefit the lake bestows, it demands an exacting price. And when Alan dares to defy the warnings, an ancient evil enters his house and his mind, spawning nightmares and paranoia. Soon, nothing is off limits to its malignant power—even Alan’s wife . . .

[ZodWallop]

Some early stuff by Robert McCammon is $2.99 a pop at Amazon US.

McCammon books often go on sale for cheaper. But for some reason Baal and The Night Boat (also on sale) aren't often included.

Baal - His first novel. He called it his 'angry young man' novel

A woman gives birth to a child whose evilness threatens all mankind Mary Kate is an ordinary woman: a waitress in a diner, stuck in a loveless marriage to an English-major-turned-cabbie. But whoever assaults her in a New York City alley is far from ordinary. As the man’s icy grip burns her skin, she couldn’t grasp the dark fate that awaits her. The rape leaves her carrying a child, who she and her husband name Jeffrey. As they try to live as a family, a mysterious force poisons them against each other. Finally overcome with hate for her husband, Mary Kate kills him, sending herself to jail and the child to an orphanage. There the boy takes a new name, Baal, and develops sinister powers that flourish as he approaches adulthood. When Baal becomes a man, the whole world will tremble before him.

The Night Boat - The first I read. Not a masterpiece, but a fun quick read. Recommended.

A scuba diver unearths a sunken U-boat that holds a terrible secret Robert Moore had a cushy life in Baltimore. The son of a bank president, he could have had the old man’s job if he’d just waited in line. But Moore isn’t the patient type, and rather than spend his life trapped behind a desk, he decamped for the Caribbean, to pass his days diving beneath the perfect blue sea. One day, diving deeper than usual, he spies a sunken ship. His investigations disrupt an unexploded depth charge, which hurls Robert to the surface with the sunken ship not far behind. The U-boat, still seaworthy after all these decades, drifts towards the island and gets caught on the reef. A strange knocking echoes from inside the hull, as though something within is still alive. When Robert opens the long-closed hatch, he’ll learn that some sunken treasure is better left undisturbed.

Bethany's Sin

A family moves to a small town dominated by a murderous cult Despite its eerie name, Bethany’s Sin is a pleasant place. After a life of grim poverty, this new community seems like heaven to Evan Reid and his family. With its quaint shops, manicured lawns, and fresh summer smell, the town charms the Vietnam veteran, his wife, and their daughter like nowhere else they have ever been. But beneath that cheerful façade lurks something deadly. As soon as they enter their new house, Evan is consumed by fear. He can’t place its source, but there is something about the town’s mayor, Kathryn Drago, which makes him uneasy. By day she is a harmless retired archaeologist. But at night she leads an Amazonian cult whose next ritual calls for a secret ingredient: the blood of Evan Reid.

[ReadingManiac]

Austin Crawley's The Locked Door is free on a Bookfunnel giveaway.

https://books.bookfunnel.com/dark-reads/8fjna9hql6

I wouldn't normally mention Bookfunnels but I do recommend this story and you don't have to join a mailing list to get that one.

[Dr. Drib]

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FREE HERE:

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-locked-door-2

OR:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...ley/1126484965

[ZodWallop]

Ghost Mine by Hunter Shea is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Deep in a Wyoming mine, hell awaits. Nat Blackburn is given an offer he can't refuse by President Teddy Roosevelt. Tales of gold in the abandoned mining town of Hecla abound. The only problem - those who go seeking their fortune never return. Along with his constant companion, Teta, a hired gun with a thirst for adventure, Nat travels to a barren land where even animals dare not tread. Black-eyed children, strange lights and ferocious wild men venture from the deep, dark ghost mine...as well as a sinister force hungry for fresh souls.

[salty-horse]

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling is $3.99 in the US (Amazon.com and elsewhere)

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town.

Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to.

Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling is $3.99 in the US (Amazon.com and elsewhere)

Thanks for that!

[ZodWallop]

Swan Song by Robert McCammon is $1.99 at Amazon US. I thought someone missed this last time.

[Dr. Drib]

All of Ruby Jean Jensen's ebooks are on sale for $1.00 at Smashwords. The sale will end soon.

I purchased the remaining 9 titles I was missing.

Here you go:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/rubyjeanjensen

Begone, evil dolls!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

All of Ruby Jean Jensen's ebooks are on sale for $1.00 at Smashwords. The sale will end soon.

I purchased the remaining 9 titles I was missing.

Here you go:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/rubyjeanjensen

Begone, evil dolls!

Can you recommend me like... five? Except for The Girl Who Didn't Die. I picked that one up because it is FREE!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Can you recommend me like... five? Except for The Girl Who Didn't Die. I picked that one up because it is FREE!

Yes, I got that free one, too.

There are so many I have not read, but one that I plan to read lickety-split (as soon as I finish Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent, by Mircea Eliade) is Annabelle.

Below are some other titles (see images) that I'm keeping an eyeball on - The left eyeball. That would be the one below the book covers.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Yes, I got that free one, too.

There are so many I have not read, but one that I plan to read lickety-split (as soon as I finish Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent, by Mircea Eliade) is Annabelle.

Below are some other titles (see images) that I'm keeping an eyeball on - The left eyeball. That would be the one below the book covers.

Okay, I used the fool-proof formula of looking up the original covers and picking the ones that looked the most lurid/cheesy.

Home Sweet Home - Clear winner!
Annabelle
Chain Letter
Victoria
Pendulum

I would have gotten Smoke, but Smashwords didn't seem to have that one. Amazon does though.

If I buy more, they will be Jump Rope and Lost and Found. The titles are on sale through April 7, so I'll have to read one of her books pretty soon.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

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FREE HERE:

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-locked-door-2

OR:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...ley/1126484965

Cool!

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Ghost Mine by Hunter Shea is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Damn, not UK. I checked the Look Inside to make sure it wasn't another present tense. I haven't trusted him since the Loch Ness one.