FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Desertway]

Stephen King's Cujo is $2.99 on Amazon US.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018ER7LCU

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks for the link.

If it's not too pricey, I'll pick it up.

i wanna say it was $6.50 when I got it.

[salty-horse]

Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Tagged as horror on Goodreads, but maybe it isn't.

A multigenerational and deeply autobiographical gothic tale of Hollywood dreams and upstate New York reality.

Foreclosure Gothic reimagines the American Gothic against the backdrop of today's Hudson Valley. The story tells of ex-Hollywood actor Vic Greener as he falls in love with the elusive Heather Roswell and the couple, following in the footsteps of Vic's father, resolves to make a life restoring one foreclosed home after another. Then comes the uncanny, destabilizing arrival of new tenants in their duplex, and the Greener's shocking discovery upon their departure.

With evocative and unsettling black and white photos throughout, this debut novel is at once a skewed portrait of three generations of Greener men, an intimate look at both childhood and parenthood and an examination of the friction between chasing one's dream and working to make money.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

i wanna say it was $6.50 when I got it.

You got it for a bargain, because it's now $12.99.

Unfortunately, I only pay that much (and higher, but under $20) for literary novels, or for fiction that I cannot wait to read right now!

It'll come back down; I would bet my brains on it!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Tagged as horror on Goodreads, but maybe it isn't.

I love Gothic Fiction, especially Southern Gothic. (Think Harry Crews, Joyce Carol Oats, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner, among others.)

I may have to give this one a try. I'll read a sample and see how it goes.

Thank you!

[salty-horse]

I think this is the first Hailey Piper novel I've caught on sale.

A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness.

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge.

As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.

Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper masterfully blends horror, erotica, and psychological thriller in this captivating and chilling story.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I think this is the first Hailey Piper novel I've caught on sale.

A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

That sounds terrific! Thanks for the share.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

That sounds terrific! Thanks for the share.

On a similar vein, Silvia Moreno-Garcia has a King in Yellow story Flash Frame at the end of this PDF:
https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/wp-c...er-Nitrate.pdf

[salty-horse]

Jacob by David Gerrold is $3 on Amazon.com (only)

Winner of the Lord Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Novel of the Year: The first horror novel from the author of Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles" script.

Includes the bonus short story "Jacob in Manhattan."

With a writing legacy that includes Star Trek, Land of the Lost, and the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novella The Martian Child, David Gerrold knows what it's like to be an author. Writing about vampires should be easy for him, right? But real vampires are far more sinister in real life than they are in fiction. Jacob is the story of an author's encounters with the undead creature who gives him success, forbidden knowledge, and ultimately, a choice.

Jacob is a cunning survivor. Orphaned in Seattle in the mid-nineteenth century, he could have been someone's convenient meal. Instead, he becomes the "daykeeper" for a man he knows only as Monsieur. Then he discovers the hidden community of nightsiders—men who live in secrecy and darkness—the true apex predators.

To be a nightsider is to experience heightened senses, bursts of super-strength, and frequent hallucinogenic episodes. Nightsiders also need to lie dormant to recover from their excesses. The daykeeper must be a protector against the daylight. But Jacob wanted more than that; he craved the promise of immortality. And so a century later, Jacob tells his story, this time to an ambitious young writer. It's a different kind of interview. Is it a seduction? Or is he just playing with his food? And who will write the final chapter?

[salty-horse]

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

THIS PLACE HATES YOU...Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.

On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere

One friend walks up – but never comes back down.

Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy – and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods…

FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.

The Fog by James Herbert is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

A special fiftieth-anniversary edition of a horror classic from James Herbert, bestselling author of The Rats.

It started with a crack that ripped the earth apart. Then out of the bottomless pit creeps a malevolent fog that leaves a deadly trail in its wake.

John Holman is on a secret assignment from the Department of the Environment when he is dragged into the clutches of this oppressive fog. After a series of grisly axe murders, rampaging livestock and the near-loss of his own sanity, it becomes clear to John that this unstoppable fog is destined to twist the minds and devastate the lives of all those it encounters.

Yet the true horror is only just beginning . . .

‘James Herbert comes at us with both hands’ – Stephen King

A chilling story of madness and murder, The Fog explores the immense destruction chemical weapons can cause – and is a stark reminder of humanity's frailty in the face of uncontrollable forces.

[salty-horse]

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Secrets in the flames. Answers in the ashes.

Riley and her brother Oliver set off in the pitch-black night, fleeing their troubled home. They are heading for Nowhere—an abandoned ranch, once the playground of its former eccentric movie-star owner, now a haven for runaways.

What awaits could be the freedom they crave.

But this mysterious clan guards dark secrets, and the scorched grounds hold the ghosts of the past. Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have escaped the devil they knew, something darker lurks in the burnt shell of Nowhere.

Something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary…

Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies.