FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

The Attraction by Douglas Clegg is $0.99 at Amazon US

Some Mysteries Should Remain Buried
Five college students hit the road to travel cross-country, away from college pressures. Seeking fun and adventure, they pull over to a roadside gas station after they see signs along the desert highway that read Come See the Mystery!

What's the “unspeakable horror” the desert billboards advertise? And why is it locked up in a glass coffin? From the twisted imagination of Douglas Clegg comes this short novel (200 pages) of first loves, first trips, and first horrors.

[Dr. Drib]

I have this, but have yet to read it. -- Thanks.

(For anyone out there who owns the collection, Coming of Age: Three Dark Novellas, be aware that The Attraction is one of those three.)

[Number9]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Attraction by Douglas Clegg is $0.99 at Amazon US

Got it! Thanks! 👍

[ZodWallop]

Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry is $1.99 at Amazon US. This is the second of the Pine Deep novels. The other two were also on sale fairly recently.

The award-winning Pine Deep saga continues...

Something evil has awakened in the town of Pine Deep. While a local newsman tries to piece together the gruesome events of a long-buried crime, others are preparing for the return of an unstoppable scourge. Bodies mutilated beyond description, innocents driven to acts of vicious madness—a monstrous legacy is preying on the living and the dead. There are those in Pine Deep who are not what they seem. Who are driven by a thirst for blood and revenge. And who are quietly building an army of the undead...

[Dr. Drib]

My God! Someone needs to do some nail trimming!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

My God! Someone needs to do some nail trimming!

Proof that in these Coronavirus-ridden days, manicures and pedicures have fallen by the wayside.

[ZodWallop]

Helltown by J. L. Williams is FREE at Amazon US.

I got an eReaderIQ alert on it, so I was tracking it, but I don't remember why. I can't say this is a recommendation. It's short, listed as fifty-thre pages.

Four teenagers are driving home from Cleveland on the night before Halloween. They're heading back to Akron late when one of them suggests they take a detour and check out the local tourist attraction (Helltown,Ohio) located just a few miles off the main highway. What they find of the place isn't at all what it seems and they'll have to put their heads together to escape the town's haunting grasp.

[radbaddude]

Haven't read this but believe it is horror.

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Amazon US $1.99

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn't right at the Sun Down, and before long she's determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden…

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Haven't read this but believe it is horror.

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Amazon US $1.99

That book immediately made me think of the Gay Talese book The Voyeur's Motel (turned in to the Netflix documentary Voyeur). I have no clue if the two books have anything in common.

At any rate, it sounds interesting and I picked it up. Thanks!

[Dr. Drib]

Picked up the Talese novel. Sounds like some great reading! Can't wait to start it, but only after I check into a hotel first and make certain there aren't any holes in the bathroom and bedroom.

Thanks!

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Helltown by J. L. Williams is FREE at Amazon US.

I got an eReaderIQ alert on it, so I was tracking it, but I don't remember why. I can't say this is a recommendation. It's short, listed as fifty-thre pages.

Free on UK too. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helltown-J-.../dp/B00Q9AK4OM

Price is right so I nabbed it.

[radbaddude]

She Has A Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker
Amazon US $0.99

After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child—this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter would spark an obsession. She'd creep into his thoughts, his every waking moment, until he finally finds her again exactly one year later, sitting upon the same bench, only to disappear again soon after.

The body of a man found in an alley, every inch of his flesh horribly burned, yet his clothing completely untouched. For Detective Faustino Brier, this wasn't the first, and he knew it wouldn't be the last. It was no different from the others. He'd find another just like it one year from today. August 9, to be exact.

Isolated and locked away from the world in a shadowy lab, a little boy known only as Subject "D" waits, grows, learns. He's permitted to speak to no one. He has never known the touch of another. Harboring a power so horrific, those in control will never allow him beyond their walls.

All of them linked in ways unimaginable.

[CWatkinsNash]

Just popping in to say to everyone who hunts down the deals! It's very much appreciated!

[ZodWallop]

A couple of Mary SanGiovanni books are on sale, $1.99 each.

I believe these are repeats, as I own both already.

Chills

“True Detective” meets H.P. Lovecraft in this chilling novel of murder, mystery, and
slow-mounting dread from acclaimed author Mary SanGiovanni . . .

It begins with a freak snowstorm in May. Hit hardest is the rural town of Colby, Connecticut. Schools and businesses are closed, powerlines are down, and police detective Jack Glazier has found a body in the snow. It appears to be the victim of a bizarre ritual murder. It won’t be the last. As the snow piles up, so do the sacrifices. Cut off from the rest of the world, Glazier teams up with an occult crime specialist to uncover a secret society hiding in their midst.

The gods they worship are unthinkable. The powers they summon are unstoppable. And the things they will do to the good people of Colby are utterly, horribly unspeakable…

Savage Woods

Bram Stoker award-nominated author Mary SanGiovanni returns with a terrifying tale of madness, murder, and mind-shattering evil . . .

Nilhollow—six-hundred-plus acres of haunted woods in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens—is the stuff of urban legend. Amid tales of tree spirits and all-powerful forest gods are frightening accounts of hikers who went insane right before taking their own lives. It is here that Julia Russo flees when her violent ex-boyfriend runs her off the road . . . here that she vanishes without a trace.

State Trooper Peter Grainger has witnessed unspeakable things that have broken other men. But he has to find Julia and can’t turn back now. Every step takes him closer to an ugliness that won’t be appeased—a centuries-old, devouring hatred rising up to eviscerate humankind. Waiting, feeding, surviving. It’s unstoppable. And its time has come.

[Kieran Seymour]

A Lume freebie. Originally published in 1961 as The Unpossessed (ISFDB Entry)

The Undead by John Glasby
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People spoke of seeing strange lights, of terrible screams in the middle of the night, of men who vanished and were never seen again, all in the vicinity of the manor.

On the lonely moor stood five ancient headstones. There were those who'd been buried there for three centuries, people who had mingled with inexplicable things of the Dark.

People like the de Ruys family, the last of whom had died three hundred years ago leaving the manor house deserted.

Until Angela de Ruys came from America, claiming to be a descendant of the old family. Then the horror began...