FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

80p in UK. I'm tempted to just grab it but I've ordered a sample and will make a point of reading it today to decide whether it's for me. The blurb sounds really interesting!

Read the first chapter of this and immediately bought it. What a find!

[Dr. Drib]

^ (He's talking about 'Nightscape', by Stephen R. George.)

I, too, picked it up but I haven't started it.

[BetterRead]

The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot is currently $2.99 at Amazon US and £2.45 at Amazon UK.

Michael Talbot's The Delicate Dependency (1982) is often cited as one of the best vampire novels ever written. This highly anticipated new edition, the first since the book's original publication, includes a new foreword by Jillian Venters.

"The tension builds page by page to a stunning climax . . . I doubt that I will ever forget it." - Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger and The Wolfen

"[O]ne of the most impressive explorations of a vampire mind ever written . . . a novel of considerable suspense . . . compelling and deeply original." - Darrell Schweitzer, Encyclopedia of the Vampire

[Dr. Drib]

^ Got it.

Thank you!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot is currently $2.99 at Amazon US and £2.45 at Amazon UK.

Thank you!

[ZodWallop]

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US.

"CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." --Stephen King

"Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro

THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi's themselves…

THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself…

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot is currently $2.99 at Amazon US and £2.45 at Amazon UK.

Also thank you from me

[ZodWallop]

Ghost Story by Peter Straub is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US.

I think I shared this not too long ago. And hopefully everyone here has already read it. But man, if you haven't, I urge you to pick it up. It's a classic on the level of 'Salem's Lot (which was an inspiration to Ghost Story).

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?

In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.

But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

[ZodWallop]

The Passage by Justin Cronin is $2.99 at Amazon US.

“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

[ZodWallop]

Black Horizon by Robert Masello is $1.99 at Amazon US.

This was originally a 1989 paperback. I love old horror like this. But the original cover isn't lurid enough to make me smile, so I didn't bother sharing it.

The gates between life and death have been opened. Musician Jack Logan holds the key. In the streets of New York, he brought a man back from the dead—in plain and shocking sight of a TV news camera crew. Now the whole world is aware of his miraculous power. The media wants to expose him; the scientists to exploit him. But worst of all, the tortured souls of the dead—including his own mother—are reaching out from the void, luring him into the eternal domain, transforming his gift into the ultimate curse. Living or dead, they struggle to seize and control the secret that lies beyond the . . . black horizon.

[Dr. Drib]

Here's a FREEBIE magazine that is most probably defunct, called Dark Worlds Quarterly. Four issues are available for download. They're PDFs and they look gorgeous. There's a lot of interesting and diverse reading. Here's the link:

http://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas....s-quarterly-4/

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ (He's talking about 'Nightscape', by Stephen R. George.)

I, too, picked it up but I haven't started it.

Officially neither have I yet, finishing off a couple of reads before I get stuck into the next ones. For some reason grocery shopping is really cutting into my free time.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Here's a FREEBIE magazine that is most probably defunct, called Dark Worlds Quarterly. Four issues are available for download. They're PDFs and they look gorgeous. There's a lot of interesting and diverse reading. Here's the link:

http://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas....s-quarterly-4/

Oooh, thank you for that! Looks very interesting!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

Officially neither have I yet, finishing off a couple of reads before I get stuck into the next ones. For some reason grocery shopping is really cutting into my free time.

I think I'll start on Nightscape next.

I started reading Kill River last night. I shared it back when all the author's books were on sale for a buck each.

I almost quit the book immediately. The book is set in the eighties, but right at the beginning the author is beating you over the head with it. The kid is listening to a Go-Go's cassette on her Walkman while eating Pac-Man cereal... But it calmed down. I'm pretty sure it's the guy's first book. I'll keep going.

[BetterRead]

Eltonsbrody by Edgar Mittelholzer is currently $2.99 at Amazon US and £2.44 at Amazon UK

When Woodsley, a young English painter, arrives in Barbados and finds no lodging available, he thinks himself fortunate to be invited to stay at Eltonsbrody, a mansion belonging to the eccentric widow Mrs Scaife. But behind the locked doors of the house's disused rooms lurk terrible secrets, and soon strange and blood-curdling events begin to unfold. The tension builds towards a shocking and unforgettable conclusion, when the full horror of Eltonsbrody will be revealed.

One of the most prolific and important of 20th-century Caribbean writers, Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) was at his best in Gothic novels like My Bones and My Flute (1955) and Eltonsbrody (1960). This first-ever reissue of Mittelholzer's weird and chilling tale reproduces the original dust jacket art and includes a new introduction by John Thieme.

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