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[BetterRead]

Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 is currently $2.99 at Amazon US.

Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing. Included here are "In the Bag," which won the British Fantasy Award, and two World Fantasy Award-winning stories, "The Chimney" and the classic "Mackintosh Willy."

In its first publication, a decade ago, Alone With the Horrors won both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. For this new edition, Campbell has added one of his very first published stories, a Lovecraftian classic, "The Tower from Yuggoth." From this early, Cthulhian tale, to later works that showcase Campbell's growing mastery of mood and character, Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.

I've been wanting to read more Ramsey Campbell. This sounds like a perfect choice.

[radbaddude]

Silver Shamrock Publishing has a bunch of deals.

Cherry picked these that I've read recently and gave 3/5 or more stars.

Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Amazon US $0.99

About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord’s Church of Holy Voices—a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. And like most legends, there’s truth buried among the roots and bones. In 1983, the church burned to the ground following a mass suicide. Among the survivors were Jacob’s six children and their grandparents, who banded together to defy their former minister. Dubbed the “Stauford Six,” these children grew up amid scrutiny and ridicule, but their infamy has faded over the last thirty years. Now their ordeal is all but forgotten, and Jacob Masters is nothing more than a scary story told around campfires. For Jack Tremly, one of the Six, memories of that fateful night have fueled a successful art career—and a lifetime of nightmares. When his grandmother Imogene dies, Jack returns to Stauford to settle her estate. What he finds waiting for him are secrets Imogene kept in his youth, secrets about his father and the church. Secrets that can no longer stay buried. The roots of Jacob’s buried god run deep, and within the heart of Devil’s Creek, something is beginning to stir…

Cricket Hunters by Jeremy Hepler
Amazon US $0.99

Celia (Garcia) Lundy was fifteen in the fall of 1998 when Abby Powell, one of her five friends who called themselves the Cricket Hunters, disappeared without a trace. Cops scoured the central Texas town of Oak Mott searching for Abby. Interviewed everyone. Brought in the Texas Rangers to assist. Three key suspects emerged and were focused on, but no evidence was found. Eventually, the case went cold, and the passage of time buried the truth of Abby Powell’s fate.

Fifteen years later, as the anniversary of Abby’s disappearance approaches, Cel’s life is upended when her husband Parker, also once a Cricket Hunter, goes missing. When bizarre clues surface that point to a link between Parker’s and Abby’s disappearances, Cel is forced to delve back into the past in order to navigate the present. With the help of her abuela, a self-proclaimed bruja, she embarks on a tumultuous journey fraught with confrontation and trickery, spells and spirits, theft and murder, in order to find out what happened to her husband, and why.

In the Scrape by J. Newman & m. Steensland
Amazon US $0.99

Most kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone’s raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more than to escape from their abusive father. As soon as possible, they plan to run away to California, where they will reunite with their mother and live happily ever after.It won’t be easy, though. After a scuffle with a local bully puts Jake’s arch-nemesis in the hospital, Sheriff Theresa McLelland starts poking her nose into their feud. During a trip to the family cabin for the opening weekend of deer-hunting season, Jake and Matthew kick their plan into action, leaving Dad tied to a chair as they flee into the night. Meanwhile, the bully and his father have their own plans for revenge, and the events to follow will forever change the lives of everyone involved.

[Paperbackstash]

Great sale for Silver Shamrock,. I just saw on their Twitter page but see if you had already posted about it.

Also can recommend
Blood Red Sky by Paul Kane


Midnight in the Graveyard (Long anthology)

Bottled

[salty-horse]

The Toll by Cherie Priest is $2.99 on Amazon.com

State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east to west, and you’ll cross six bridges. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven.

But you’d better hope not.

Titus and Davina Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car . . .

When, much later, a tow-truck arrives, the driver finds Titus lying in the middle of the road, but Davina is nowhere to be found.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Silver Shamrock Publishing has a bunch of deals.

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Great sale for Silver Shamrock,. I just saw on their Twitter page but see if you had already posted about it.

Great. Now I have this stuck in my head.

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Great. Now I have this stuck in my head.

JC, what have you done.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Money Back Guarantee by Hunter Shea is $0.99 at Amazon US. This is a short story or novella at 73 pages.



This is the third in a series called Mail Order Massacre and they all sound like a hoot. The first one is about Sea Monkeys dumped in the sewers, the second is about X-Ray Specs that work too well and now there's this one about the cardboard submarine.

I imagine soon there will be an omnibus of all three. But at $2.99 a pop for books under 100 pages, I think they're overpriced. I added them to ereaderiq for a $0.99 sale.

The omnibus set of all three stories is on sale for $3.99 now. I've got my never-ending series of $1 coupons for accepting later deliveries, so purchased them at your desired equivalent of a buck apiece.

[salty-horse]

Mexican Gothic by Silivia Moreno-Garcia is $2.99 on Amazon.com

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.

Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Mexican Gothic by Silivia Moreno-Garcia is $2.99 on Amazon.com

I really must read a sample of that and decide whether I want it. It's getting good comments in book groups.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

Silver Shamrock Publishing has a bunch of deals.

Cherry picked these that I've read recently and gave 3/5 or more stars.

Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Amazon US $0.99

Cricket Hunters by Jeremy Hepler
Amazon US $0.99

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Mexican Gothic by Silivia Moreno-Garcia is $2.99 on Amazon.com

Originally Posted by curtw

The omnibus set of all three stories is on sale for $3.99 now.

Thanks guys. I picked them all up.

[ZodWallop]

The Hole by Hye-young Pyun is $1.99 at Amazon US.

This will be my third Pyun book after The Law of Lines and City of Ash and Red

Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award
Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.

In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.

A bestseller in Korea, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun's The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. As Oghi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by radbaddude

JC, what have you done.

Hahah, I know your pain with this. That song gets stuck in my head, too.

[Kieran Seymour]

A couple of freebies from Lume Books, both by Marc Alexander and originally published by Hamlyn here in the UK around 40 years ago under the name Mark Ronson.

Bloodthirst
amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

Her spirit has awoken…


1610.

Countess Elizabeth Bathori has been walled up alive in her castle for murdering 650 young girls.

Her reason: to bathe in their blood.

Her sinister life of drinking and bathing in her victims’ blood has become only a haunting legend…

But is her evil influence really dead?

Now, three centuries later during the Second World War, the German troops are retreating from Hungary. With the turning tides of war, a group of fleeing Germans take refuge in a ruined crypt.

They disappear.

And when they are found, it is in the worst possible circumstances.

They have been murdered, strangely and savagely.

Their death unleashes upon the world a horror that was once thought to have disappeared… but now, we shall see that it has been lying in wait ever since the Countess’ death…

Her bloodthirst still rages – and she will claim many more victims before it is quenched.

Ogre
amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

After walking in on his wife during an act of infidelity, Richard Finlay’s life is turned on its head.

To get away from his thoughts, Richard decides to move to the remote Cumbrian village of Greysike.

However, Greysike is suddenly hit with a wave of brutal deaths and all fingers are pointing to the newcomer…Richard Finlay.

The locals become wracked with terror at the horrific, inhuman nature of the murders and Richard falls victim to their fear (and drink) driven attempts at retribution.

However, his reputation is saved when a notorious murderer nicknamed the Leopard Man, who is rumoured to be in the area, is caught in the act and killed, the villagers think that is the end of their nightmare.

But the disappearances continue. As Finlay pieces together the chilling evidence he becomes aware of unspeakable menace.

The whole community is put in terrifying danger as it continues to satisfy its craving for human flesh…

Their detective work leads them to an old, long abandoned, possibly Roman mine that wreaks of death and decay…

…This must be the source.

For in the old mining tunnels far below, an age-old creature has awoken from its timeless slumber.

As Richard Finlay, Patricia Derbyshire and Karl Bruggermann descend into the old mine shaft they find the unimaginable creature and things just keep getting worse…

…Trapped.

With authorities on their case to cover up such an unexplainable monster, the trio must hurry to bring an end to the horrific deaths before nothing more can be done.

[Dr. Drib]

All six (6) of your links do not work.

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

All six (6) of your links do not work.

Oh yes they do!

Sorry. That's what happens when I post after making early-morning coffee but before drinking it. Too many quotation marks - all sorted now.