FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Found this on overdrive to request -- thanks! Picked up the Toxic book.

[ZodWallop]

Skull Moon by Tim Curran is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Montana Territory, 1878.

Wolf Creek is under siege by a vicious, flesh-eating evil that stalks the night, leaving dismembered and devoured corpses in its wake. It is unknown, unseen, and unstoppable.

Enter Joseph Longtree, deputy U.S. Marshal. He knows there is a rhyme and reason behind the killings, but to discover the truth will mean penetrating local superstition, corruption, and vice, which will ultimately bring him face to face with a monstrosity out of Native American folklore.

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Skull Moon by Tim Curran is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Thanks!~

[ZodWallop]

In 2019, DC gave Joe Hill his own comic imprint, Hill House Comics. They put out five horror miniseries, two written by Hill and the rest written by others. All are worth reading, a couple were excellent.

All five series have been collected and those collections are on sale for $3.99 each (the cost for an individual issue when they were first published). Try a couple:

Basketful of Heads by Joe Hill (Author), Leomacs (Illustrator), Dave Stewart (Illustrator)
One of the best

June Branch-trapped with four cunning criminals who have snatched her boyfriend for deranged reasons of their own. Now she must fight for her life with the help of an impossible 8th-century Viking axe that can pass through a man’s neck in a single swipe-and leave the severed head still conscious and capable of supernatural speech.
Each disembodied head has a malevolent story of its own to tell, and it isn’t long before June finds herself in a desperate struggle to hack through their lies and manipulations...racing to save the man she loves before time runs out. But is June Branch a woman fighting for her life-or a deranged axe murderer with a basketful of paranoid fantasies? The truth is even more horrifying than a basketful of heads.

The Dollhouse Family by Mike Carey (Author), Peter Gross (Artist), Vince Locke (Artist)
The other best one

On Alice's sixth birthday, her dying great-aunt sent her the birthday gift she never knew she always wanted: a big, beautiful 19th-century dollhouse, complete with a family of antique dolls. In no time at all, the dollhouse isn't just Alice's favorite toy...it's her whole world. And soon, young Alice learns she can enter the house to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming children's novel: the Dollhouse family.
But while the Dollhouse family welcomes her with open arms, in the real world, her family life is becoming much more complicated...and deep within the Dollhouse's twisting halls, the Black Room waits, with an offer to Alice. The house can fix all this, the Black Room says. All she has to do is say the words...
From there unfolds a twisty, surreal, multigenerational horror tale that echoes into centuries past, into Alice's tormented future, and into the beating heart of the madness that makes up our world...literally.

Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks (Author), Kelley Jones (Artist)

In the gaslit splendor of late 19th-century New York, rage builds inside 14-year-old Daphne. The sudden death of her father has left her alone with her grief-stricken mother who becomes easy prey for a group of occultists promising to contact her dead husband. While fighting to disentangle her mother from these charlatans, Daphne begins to sense a strange, insidious presence in her own body...an entity with unspeakable appetites. What does “Brother” want? And could Daphne stop him even if she tried?

Plunge by Joe Hill (Author), Stuart Immonen (Artist)

In the aftermath of a devastating tsunami, an exploration vessel known as the Derleth begins sending an automated distress signal from a remote atoll in the Bering Strait. The only problem is that the Derleth has been missing for 40 years. Marine biologist Moriah Lamb joins the Carpenter Wreck Removal team to recover the Derleth’s dead...only to find that in this remote part of the Arctic Circle, the dead have plenty to say to the living…
There’s something down in the icy darkness of the Arctic sea...something that doesn’t want to be found. Unlike on land, where terror shows itself as the long-lost crew of the Derleth emerges from caves. They seem as though they haven’t aged a day-it’s as if they’re exactly the same as the day they disappeared...except they’re all missing their eyes. Will the salvage crew survive to bring their findings to shore? What danger waits for them if they fail? What dangers await us all should they succeed?

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado (Author), Dani (Artist)

Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The coal mines beneath it are long since abandoned. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people in Shudder-to-Think? Well, they’re not doing so well either.
When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags begin a surreal and terrifying journey to discover the truth about the strange town that they call home. Like so many women in Shudder-to-Think before them, all they have is a void where the truth once was. But as time passes, El finds herself needing to know more about what has happened, while Octavia wants nothing more than to forget the forgetting. Can these two teens reconcile their differences before the horrible things lurking beneath their town emerge and swallow them whole?

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The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror by Stephen Jones is $1.99 at Amazon US.

A shame they didn't include The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein. But I guess you can't have everything.

Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil... with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver​, Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more!

The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare the unwary traveler . . .

These concepts have been the archetypes of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been given a name: Folk Horror.

This type of storytelling has existed for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had it roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or places “left behind.” All four writers are represented in this volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others.

Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way “natural” in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire...

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A shame they didn't include The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein...

That can be obtained cheaply via my next purchase: The Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK. Only a buck. I don't even think it's on sale. Just regular price.

Now T.E.D. needs to release ebooks of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods.

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Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin is $3 on Amazon.com
Was on my wishlist.

Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin is $3 on Amazon.com
Was on my wishlist.

I bought the book. I appreciate queering genre fiction. Though TBH, this one sounds a little too weird. On the upside, it is usually when my expectations are low that I am most pleasantly surprised.

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Cross-posted to SF/F thread.
Rebellion Publishing have a sale on their website, $1 each:

• A Hole In The World by Weston Ochse
• Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
• A Broken Darkness by Premee Mohamed
• The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed
• Brain-Eating Britain (Anthology)
• Tomes of the Dead (anthology)
• Circus of Sins by Natasha Rhodes
• Creatures (anthology of Frankenstein stories)
• Dante's Girl by Natasha Rhodes
• Dracula: Rise of the Beast by David Thomas Moore
• Dreams of Shreds and Tatters by Amanda Downum
• Grave Secrets by Alice James
• Heartbreak Incorporated by Alex De Campi
• Poe (anthology) edited by Ellen Datlow
• Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack by Nate Crowley
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
• The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
• The Last Angel by Natasha Rhodes
• The Liar of Red Valley by Walter Goodwater
• Three Stories About Ghosts (anthology)

[Dr. Drib]

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These titles look very interesting.

Thank you for the list. I know I'll be buying some of them.

[ZodWallop]

Snowblind by Christopher Golden is $2.99 at Amazon US.

In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Stephen King--Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age.

The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures danced in the wind and gazed through children's windows with soul-chilling eyes. People wandered into the whiteout and were never seen again. Families were torn apart, and the town would never be the same.

Now, as a new storm approaches twelve years later, the folks of Coventry are haunted by the memories of that dreadful blizzard and those who were lost in the snow. Photographer Jake Schapiro mourns his little brother, Isaac, even as---tonight---another little boy is missing. Mechanic and part-time thief Doug Manning's life has been forever scarred by the mysterious death of his wife, Cherie, and now he's starting over with another woman and more ambitious crimes. Police detective Joe Keenan has never been the same since that night, when he failed to save the life of a young boy . . . and the boy's father vanished in the storm only feet away. And all the way on the other side of the country, Miri Ristani receives a phone call . . . from a man who died twelve years ago.

As old ghosts trickle back, this new storm will prove to be even more terrifying than the last.

Spellbinding in scope and rooted deeply in classic storytelling, Christopher Golden has written a chilling masterpiece that is the best work of his career and a standout supernatural thriller. With richly textured characters, scarred and haunted by the ghosts of those they loved most, Snowblind is rooted deeply in classic storytelling. Christopher Golden has written a chilling masterpiece that is both his breakout book and a standout supernatural thriller.

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Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?

We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.

One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing.

Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He’ll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes—sometimes you have to become a monster first.

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Autumn by David Moody is $2.99 at Amazon US.

A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...

Without ever using the 'Z' word, Autumn offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thank you for the list. I know I'll be buying some of them.

The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack is a quirky one about a zombie starting a blue collar revolution. I first learned about it from an Adrian Tchaikovsky recommendation. I passed on it because it seems a bit too "disgusting" for my taste, but you might like it.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack is a quirky one about a zombie starting a blue collar revolution. I first learned about it from an Adrian Tchaikovsky recommendation. I passed on it because it seems a bit too "disgusting" for my taste, but you might like it.

Yes, that was one I had my eye on.

(You're right about my taste: It seems wonderfully quirky and delightfully disgusting!)