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A couple of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula books are on sale for $1.99 each.
Anno Dracula Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories Here's a description of the series taken from its Wikipedia page: The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman—named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. While Dracula is a central figure in the events of the series, he is a minor character in the books themselves, and usually appears in only a few climactic pages of each book. |
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Another Kim Newman book is on sale for $1.99: The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Sounds more like fantasy than horror. But Kim is worth checking out: A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy’s, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend. They soon discover that the Hooded Conspiracy runs through the School, and it's up to the Moth Club to get to the heart of it. |
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McFall by Scott Nicholson is $1.99 at Amazon. Looks to be a follow-up to The Red Church and Drummer Boy.
I don't like series in horror fiction (or much anywhere else), but I have read and enjoyed several of Scott's novels. |
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Robert McCammon has a few books on sale at Amazon:
Swan Song is $1.99. An epic port-apocalyptic horror novel that's almost impossible not to compare to The Stand, even if the comparison is unfair. Stinger is $1.99. An alien bounty hunter arrives in a desolate West Texas desert town. Boy's Life is $1.99. Not a horror novel. More a novel of childhood similar to Ray Bradbury or Stephen King. One of his most highly regarded novels. The Wolf's Hour is $2.81. A werewolf SAS officer in WWII. I haven't read it yet, but have been told repeatedly that I am wrong for not having done so. |
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Bargain @ $1.99 from HarperCollins in Canada & the US (should be the same price at all retailers):
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a standalone supernatural psychological suspense centred around one family's experience of an exorcism. This won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil. |
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Bargain @ $1.99 from HarperCollins in Canada & the US:
The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition by the late William Peter Blatty (ISFDB, Wikipedia), the classic novel which was adapted into the iconic film and is apparently now the basis for a TV series as well. Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist is now a major television series on FOX. It remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon: It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one. Inspired by a true story of a child’s demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying. Two years after its publication, The Exorcist was, of course, turned into a wildly popular motion picture, garnering ten Academy Award nominations. On opening day of the film, lines of the novel’s fans stretched around city blocks. In Chicago, frustrated moviegoers used a battering ram to gain entry through the double side doors of a theater. In Kansas City, police used tear gas to disperse an impatient crowd who tried to force their way into a cinema. The three major television networks carried footage of these events; CBS’s Walter Cronkite devoted almost ten minutes to the story. The Exorcist was, and is, more than just a novel and a film: it is a true landmark. Purposefully raw and profane, The Exorcist still has the extraordinary ability to disturb readers and cause them to forget that it is “just a story.” Published here in this beautiful fortieth anniversary edition, it remains an unforgettable reading experience and will continue to shock and frighten a new generation of readers. |
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Letters to the Damned by Austin Crawley is .99 today
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Speaking of '70's blockbuster books that became blockbuster movies, Peter Benchley's Jaws is also $1.99.
I haven't read the book myself, but from what I hear it is one of the rare cases of the movie being better than the book. |
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More Robert McCammon is on sale at Amazon:
Mine is $1.99: A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother’s vengeance in this terrifying thriller. It won a Bram Stoker award Usher's Passing is $1.99: Poe’s classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina |
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Ray Garton's admittedly (intentionally?) silly Frankenstorm is $1.99 at Amazon: "Remember when paperback originals were cool? Sex, action, suspense? Try FRANKENSTORM. It's old school." -Stephen King
A massive hurricane hits California and things go to hell: A local radio talk show host specializing in conspiracies and a paramilitary paranoid are both sure the homeless people going missing are tied to the pharmaceutical company doing research in an abandoned hospital. They're right. There is also a police officer who has gone insane and is dragging a man and his young son around with him hostage while the officer goes on an unprecedented killing spree. Then there is the single mother trying to get money for her son's illness who takes on a delivery job in spite of the storm. It was originally published as a serial novel of six very short books. This is the compilation of all six. |
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I just bought all those books then remembered I have a $5 Amazon credit from Bing. Doh!
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