Free and Bargain Horror Ebooks September 2012

[kyteflyer]

This one looks a bit horrorish
Dust at Amazon US

*Winner of the $15,000 Governor General’s Award
*Winner of the Mr. Christie's Award
*An American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
*Nominated for an Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America)
*Over 60,000 copies sold


For fans of Stephen King and Ray Bradbury...

Imagine a depression-era town where it hasn’t rained for years. A pale rainmaker with other-worldly eyes brings rain to the countryside and mesmerizes the townspeople, but the children begin to disappear one by one. Only young Robert Steelgate is able to resist the rainmaker’s spell and begin the struggle to discover what has happened to his missing brother and the other children.

"Read the riveting first chapter of Dust and you're already past the point of no return. Arthur Slade writes with the art and grace of a hypnotist, and you won't be able to put this book down. It's sensational!" Kenneth Oppel, New York Times bestselling author of AIRBORN and SKYBREAKER.

About the Author:
Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He has been writing fiction full time for fifteen years and is the author of sixteen bestselling books, including the "Northern Frights" series, "Jolted," and "The Hunchback Assignments." He lives in the magical city of Saskatoon, Canada.

I haven't read it yet, but it looked good enough to pick up (having been a Stephen King and Ray Bradbury fan, I'm hopeful)

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

This one looks a bit horrorish
Dust at Amazon US



I haven't read it yet, but it looked good enough to pick up (having been a Stephen King and Ray Bradbury fan, I'm hopeful)

I think this is supposed to be YA, but the writing looks like it would appeal to adults also. I snagged it. Thanks for posting.

[kg3]

Thanks for this kyteflyer!

-Also, it was originally published by HarperCollins in 2001.

Originally Posted by kyteflyer
This one looks a bit horrorish
Dust at Amazon US

I haven't read it yet, but it looked good enough to pick up (having been a Stephen King and Ray Bradbury fan, I'm hopeful)

[Indio777]

Bloody Hands: An Inspector Monde Tale of Strange and Terrible Adventures (Inspector Monde Shorts)

Book Description
From the author of Wizards and The Spellbinder comes a ghostly tale.

You can buy all the Inspector Monde stories in the The Inspector Monde Mysteries, available on Kindle and in Paperback. This is story #4

Spring in Paris, a time for lovers, a time for strolls, and if you are a building tradesman, it is a time for work to resume after the long winter layoff. The new owner of a landmark Milliner's shop anxiously awaits renovations to begin. Dispensing his crew to the basement level, the men puzzle over measurements that do not match the architect's plans. None could predict the apparition dripping blood from hands ravaged and torn, tips of the bone protruding from each small finger. Only Inspector Monde is equipped to deal with that which cannot exist, or so says the Inspector's boss. This time they will need more than a priest to deal with a crime so heinous that the final solution will shock all who witness it. When ghosts cannot exist, only Inspector Monde can plan the final solution to lay the soul to rest, but this time has he gone too far?

Inspector Monde walks the dark side of Paris where the supernatural can be found. Every police force has an Inspector Monde though they try to deny it. When the blood chills and the hairs on the back of the neck rise they send for him and don't look too closely at what he does. For the Inspector does not particularly believe in the Law but will fight for Justice to his last breath.

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by sufue

Just curious - what is the reason for this post? I didn't see anything wrong in post #1, which is the only post before this one?????

I guess the original post #2 broke the rules and was edited and replaced with the reminder.

Either that, or we have entered the Twilight Zone.

[NightBird]

Dr. Orient by Frank Lauria is free from Ereads. Originally published in 1970.

THE SPELLBINDING NOVEL OF A PSYCHIC WAR
FOR THE SOUL OF A YOUNG GIRL

+ A coven of witches and warlocks—among them some of New York’s most prominent celebrities—toying with sexual perversion, Black Magic and human sacrifice…

+ A hot downtown discotheque where an incredibly beautiful sixteen-year-old seduces young men into the service of Satan…

+ A defrocked priest whose consuming ambition and awesome occult powers
make him famous enough to lure a capacity crowd to Yankee Stadium to witness a dark “miracle”—the cure of the Vice-President’s daughter…

Doctor Owen Orient, psychiatrist, physician, psychic adept—and his team of Telepaths—stake their lives against the ravening evil known as… Susej.

The book that launched the DOCTOR ORIENT series.

Free from Anarchy Books, horror anthology Vivisepulture.

Welcome to our anthology, a collection of weird and bizarre tales of twisted imagination by Neal Asher, Tony Ballantyne, Eric Brown, Richard Ford, Ian Graham, Lee Harris, Colin Harvey, Vincent Holland-Keen, James Lovegrove, Gary McMahon, Stan Nicholls, Andy Remic, Jordan Reyne, Ian Sales, Steven Savile, Wayne Simmons, Guy N. Smith, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jeffrey Thomas, Danie Ware, Ian Watson and Ian Whates. Artwork by Vincent Chong.

The anthology is dedicated to the late Colin Harvey, with great affection.

In the tradition of Poe, Kafka, Borges and H. G. Wells, this collection of weird stories are written with the primary drive of presenting twisted deviations of normality. Whether it's the deviant factory workers of Neal Asher's Plastipak™ Limited, the pus-oozing anti-cherub of Ian Graham's Rotten Cupid, the acid-snot disgorging freak of Andy Remic's SNOT, or Ian Watson's alternate zombie-crucifixion, each story will drag your organs up through your oesophagus and give your brain a chilli-fired beating.

FOCUS ON -
• WEIRD TALES
• DISTURBING CONCEPTS
• DEVIATED BLACK HUMOUR
• NO GENRE LEFT UNGOUGED

Free from Evil Jester Press, The Love of the Dead by Craig Saunders.

When Beth Willis, who normally speaks for the deceased, is given a message from a dead medium, she steps beyond her world, into the spirit realm.

D.I. Coleridge is a man marking time, until a call from Beth gives him a lead on an elusive killer who takes trophies from his victims. A killer who walks through both worlds, taking lives. A man with powers no mortal can possess. A man, but something else, too.

If Coleridge and Beth are to survive, they must understand him...but some men cannot be fought. Some creatures cannot be bested.

Death calls on all in time. But if Beth and Coleridge are to win, they have no choice but to call on Death themselves.

[NightBird]

Some freebies from Severed Press. Zombies galore!

2012 AD: Mayan Apocalypse

DECEMBER 21ST 2012 The most accurate calendar the world has ever seen - the 5,125 year old Mayan long count calendar turns over to Zero. Are we on the brink of APOCALYPSE? In the Highlands of Guatemala an ancient terror rises from the cornfields... In India a renowned physicist calculates not just the end of the world but of time itself, but what did the ancient Maya know that she doesn't?... What secret monstrosity do the pyramids of Costa Rica hide? ...With the planets aligned Mayan Gods gather to end the fourth and final age of man. Severed Press brings you 10 short stories exploring the Mayan 2012 End of Days myth. WHERE WILL YOU BE DECEMBER 21ST 2012?

Dead America: A Zombie Novel by Luke Keioskie.

Life's tough in America. Especially when you're dead. Faraday thought finding a runaway girl would be easy money. But when the girl turns up dead - the first American in decades who hasn't relived as a zombie - Faraday must hit the streets to find her killer. Standing in his way are undead gangbangers, a police force rife with bigotry and lifism, and the zombie crime lord of Harlem. But with the help of a necrophilic pathologist, a severed head named Dorothy, and a reporter that would literally give her right arm for a story, Faraday must discover why the dead girl didn't come back to life. And he better be quick before the animosity between the living and the dead sparks a riot that could burn New York City to the ground. In a country where the afterlife is the same as life before death, can anyone really live at all? Welcome to Dead America. Land of the dead and home of the grave.

Nightmare of the Dead: Rise of the Zombies by Vincenzo Bilof.

In a world of war and mayhem, a twisted nightmare of undead cannibals begins.

The outlaw Neasa Bannan uncovers a horrifying conspiracy engineered by the psychopathic mastermind behind the Confederacy's deadly flesh-hungry weapons. A homicidal gunslinger and a brotherhood of killers emerge out of Neasa's tragic, blood-soaked past while the living dead ravage the land.

With the fate of the country in the balance, Neasa must decide: save the Union from the undead menace, or surrender to Saul's vision of ultra-violence.

Contaminated: A Zombie Survival Novel by Suzanne Robb.

Dr. Arthur Covington may hold the key to the most important discovery in the history of humankind. He is, however, not the only interested party.

If he is to survive treachery and attempts on his life in his bid to escape a secure, high-tech facility, he will have to rely on others - but who can he trust?

Underground, an explosion rocks the facility. Someone drops a viral agent.

In a new world where none can be trusted, Covington's life hangs in the balance. It's a race against time...and the end of the world...because it's not just the living he has to fight against. The dead are rising. Dead men walk the halls below the earth, and the only thing keeping him from being contaminated is his gas mask...and it won't last forever.

My Heart Belongs to You: A Psycho Thriller by Michael Walton.

For six consecutive years, the serial killer dubbed Cupid has struck, leaving a pair of lovers brutally murdered on February 14 at exactly 7 p.m.

Each year, a man and a woman bound by love would be kidnapped, and two days later, slaughtered in a barbaric ritual that left them entwined for eternity. They would be found in a frozen, gruesome human sculpture that reflected the twisted and tortured mind of Cupid.

Richard Turner, a detective inspector with the metropolitan police has been chasing the shadow of death since the first murder had been committed back in 2006, but he was no closer to ending Cupid’s trail of horror, than he was on day one.

This year however, Cupid made a mistake. This year, he has snatched Tom Wilson and his fiancée Karen Carter. That meant that he would have an extra man hunting him, for Tom Wilson has a friend, a friend you would not want as an enemy. This year, Cupid would need to look over his shoulder, because that man was ex-SAS trooper John Hanson, and he was coming for his friend. He was coming like a train.

[Dr. Drib]

Got them!

Thank you.



Don

[kg3]

FREE at Amazon:

Risen - Jan Strnad [Horror]

Amazon US---Amazon UK

-This book was previously published by Pinnacle (Kensington) in 2004 under the pseudonym J. Knight

Welcome to Anderson. It's quiet here and that's how we like it. Except....

Madge Duffy sliced her husband's throat last week. Thought she killed him, but then John walked out of the morgue none the worse for wear.

The new preacher's calling it a "miracle," but I don't know. It isn't right.

I think there might be other people coming back, too.

Like Deputy Haws, for one. He's got a bullet hole in his one good shirt and he won't talk about it.

You know Peg Culler down at the diner...the one with the little girl on life support? Well, she's talking about pulling the plug, and nobody ever thought she'd do that, not in a million years. She thinks it might be the only way to get her back.

Then there's that gang of kids that hangs around the reservoir...not one of them can look you in the eye without breaking into a cold sweat. They're keeping a secret, and it's got them all on edge.

Something's going on in this town of ours, something that makes your skin crawl and your teeth grind in the night. I don't know what it is, but I know this:

It scares me.

-This is under the Thriller/Suspense category at Amazon, but all Amazon Reviews and other reviews outside of Amazon call it Horror.

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Got them!

Thank you.



Don

You're welcome! And here's another one from SP they put up after I went to bed:

Chemical Z: Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse by Ricky Kay.

Strange goings on in his tenement building in Scotland prompt one man to start a journal. With a trail of events leading to the occupants of the flat upstairs, his journal pieces together those events with a startling conclusion...the creation of a virus that is taking over the town. A virus that kills the living, then brings them back to life as flesh eating monsters.

Mysterious house fires around the country. Bodies buried in the garden, and his girlfriend missing after a night out goes tragically wrong.

This journal follows an ordinary man's journey as he witnesses the birth of a virus that takes over the town and eventually the world.

[Dr. Drib]

Thank you, NightBird. I picked up the newest one you just listed.



Don

[DrNefario]

James Herbert's Ash appears to be £0.20 at Amazon UK right now.

Edit: Here's a link now I'm not on my iPad.

[ozron]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

James Herbert's Ash appears to be £0.20 at Amazon UK right now.

Thanks, got it! There are a few of his books marked down now. Picked them all up.

[NightBird]

Personal Demons by Gregory Lamberson is free again from Medallion Press.

Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads—an elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as the Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at Tower International, a controversial genetic-engineering company. Beneath the polished exterior of the corporate identity and the CEO—who has a reputation as the frontiersman on the cutting edge of science—is a deranged mind. As Jake delves deeper into this frightening laboratory, he discovers much more than unethical practices performed in the name of human progress. Sequestered in rooms veiled in secrecy is the worst crime the world will ever see—the theft of the human soul. Horrifying and gruesome, this is a gripping, suspense-filled novel that offers intense arguments about science, ethics, and human life.

[jhempel24]

Originally Posted by sufue

Just curious - what is the reason for this post? I didn't see anything wrong in post #1, which is the only post before this one?????

So authors don't come in and promote their work, there is a section on the forum for that one. It was just a general message, not a warning to the OP.