FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by nprentiss

Do I hear a challenge....?

If you don't....well, then I may be forced to write the story...on my cassette player. (Witches who rarely bathe comes to mind. It's not so bad if they're riding 'sidewood'. But astride: Ouch!)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Evil in Me by Brom is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo. As per usual with Brom, it has an incredible cover.

Back up to full price. But thought I'd share the cover image anyway.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Back up to full price. But thought I'd share the cover image anyway.

I like the chorus: The singing blue blobs. Sort of like evil squid Tribbles with teeth.

[Desertway]

Stephen King's Under the Dome is $2.99 at Amazon US.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030H7UIU

[Cactus Chef]

[Removed the links, since the description is misleading, borderline fraudulent.]

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Twilight Zone, an anthology of Twilight Zone-like short stories

That blurb is written in the future tense, and I think Peter S. Beagle's story ended up not being included.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Desertway

Stephen King's Under the Dome is $2.99 at Amazon US.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030H7UIU

Quicker than me!

Here's the B&N and Kobo links:
B&N
Kobo

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

That blurb is written in the future tense, and I think Peter S. Beagle's story ended up not being included.

Well, crap! I think you might be right. Looking at the ToC, I don't see Harlan Ellison or Peter S. Beagle included. Which is particularly frustrating, given that it was for both of them that I purchased the book!

I might have to file a complaint w/ Kobo and ask for a refund. Surprised no one else has raised that on either the Kobo or Amazon listings yet.

[ZodWallop]

John Everson has two Giallo-inspired novels on sale, a buck each.

For those not in the know, Giallo was the Italian precursor to the American slasher movies of the '80's. They were very stylish horror films where a murderer, usually wearing black gloves and a trenchcoat kills a bunch of people before being unmasked in a twist ending. They were inspired by American crime novels, which were published in Italy with yello (giallo) covers.

The two books are:
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds - Amazon, B&N, Kobo

Somebody is murdering the Songbirds…

A modern Giallo, Everson's homage to the stylish Italian mystery thrillers. When Eve Springer arrives in Belgium to study with the world-famous Prof. Ernest Von Klein at The Eyrie, an exclusive music conservatory, it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But that dream is soon to become a nightmare.

When the star of the school’s piano program is strangled with a piano wire, the only clue to the killer is a grainy picture of the victim during her final moments, mouth wide and screaming, posted on the girl’s own Facebook account, alongside a classic music video. What does it mean? Eve soon finds herself taking the girl’s place as the enclave’s star pupil, in line for a coveted scholarship and a new member of the famed jazz combo, the Songbirds.

When Eve is drugged and another Songbird murdered at a campus party, she suddenly finds herself on the list of suspects. Another picture is posted online of the victim in her final moments, and this time, Eve is sure the hands around the girl’s throat… are hers! Could she have killed the girl while under the influence of whatever someone had slipped in her drink? The police and others at the Eyrie are suspicious; the murders began when she arrived. Her new boyfriend Richard insists that she could not be the killer. But who would want the Songbirds dead? One of the other Songbirds, like Gianna, the snarky sax player who seems to hate everyone? Or Philip, the creepy building caretaker and occasional night watchman? Or could it be Prof. Von Klein himself, who seems very handy with a camera and has a secret locked room behind his office where the light always seems to be on after dark?

Whoever it is, Eve knows she needs to figure it out. Because when a dead canary is left as a bloody message on the keys of her piano, she knows her own life may be in deadly danger.

The Bloodstained Doll - Amazon, B&N, Kobo

The latest homage to the Italian Giallo film genre by award winning John Everson, with nods to the sensational movies of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Luciano Ercoli, Mario Bava and more.

When Allyson's mom dies unexpectedly, she thinks her world has hit rock bottom. But that's before she goes to live with her estranged Uncle Otto in Germany. When a child's empty casket is unearthed in the backyard during a violent storm, suddenly people close to her uncle start turning up dead. Is there a connection? As the noose tightens and murders draw closer to Berger Mansion, Allyson and her new boyfriend Andrew discover a dark truth hidden in the attic. Soon their lives are at stake if they don't discover why each broken body is decorated with a Bloodstained Doll.

A modern Giallo, building on Everson's previous homage to the stylish Italian mystery thrillers, Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds.

[SomeSteve]

End of Watch by Stephen King, the third book in the Bill Hodges trilogy, is $2.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/End-of-Watch-.../dp/B018RE0APU

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/end-of-watch-1

[SomeSteve]

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons is £2.99 at Amazon UK and Kobo UK, €3.49 at Amazon Germany, Amazon France, and possibly other European Amazon sites.

The blurb is what caught my eye on this one, which, possibly because I'm not much of a horror fan, I'd never heard of.

'Carrion Comfort is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that' STEPHEN KING

Now the question arises, what are the other two?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carrion-Com.../dp/B004EYT568

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/carrion-comfort-3

https://www.amazon.de/Carrion-Comfor.../dp/B004EYT568

https://www.amazon.fr/Carrion-Comfor.../dp/B004EYT568

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Now the question arises, what are the other two?

Based on another quote, Someone on Reddit thinks it's The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SF&F.
Model Home by Rivers Solomon is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Recent release. Was on my wishlist.

The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a “natural” death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?

Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SF&F.
Subcutanean by Aaron A. Reed, a procedurally-generated novel where each copy is different, is now free.
This is an indie horror/fantastical novel that I read and enjoyed, so it's OK to post here.

Anyway, the source code to generate the novel is now available, along with 10,000 pre-generatd copies.

Insecure college senior Orion loves music, books, and his best friend Niko. When the two of them find a secret basement in their rambling old off-campus house, at first Orion’s thrilled. It’s another secret to share, another adventure to maybe, at last, bring them closer together.

But something's wrong: the basement doesn't end. Blandly decorated halls stretch on for miles past peeling wallpaper, empty bedrooms, and countless stairwells always leading down. Soon they realize Downstairs is a snarled tangle of possibilities, more and more opening up the deeper they go. Something down there multiplies everything: architecture, emotions, even people.

Together they must navigate an increasingly dangerous labyrinth that peels back their friendship to raw and angry roots, filled with two-faced doppelgängers, treacherous architecture, and long-buried secrets. Most dangerous of all is Orion's consuming obsession: somewhere down there, is there a Niko who loves him back?

Subcutanean is a unique novel that changes with every printing. Each copy contains a unique telling of the story: no two are ever quite the same.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Cross-posted to SF&F.
Subcutanean by Aaron A. Reed, a procedurally-generated novel where each copy is different, is now free.
This is an indie horror/fantastical novel that I read and enjoyed, so it's OK to post here.

Anyway, the source code to generate the novel is now available, along with 10,000 pre-generatd copies.

What a neat idea.