Michael R. Collings $2.99-$4.99 (US) [Horror/SF] (Amazon/BN/Kobo)

[NightBird]

Michael R. Collings is an Emeritus Professor of English at Seaver College, Pepperdine University. He has written over twenty volumes of poetry, novels, short fiction, bibliographies, and studies of the writers Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, and Orson Scott Card, many of them being published by the Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press. He lives and works in Idaho.

HORROR:

Devil's Plague $2.99

Product Description
The scene lay tranquil and peaceful--except for the young woman's body, battered and broken at the foot of Porcupine Falls. Who was responsible? Was it the local boy, enamored and fearful of rejection; the stranger with the hidden past; or a serial killer? It's up to Lynn Hansen, recently arrived from L.A., and her new friend, Victoria Sears, to explore the intimacies of death, and solve the mystery of the Devil's Plague!

http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Plague-...2396025&sr=1-8

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Dev...el+r.+collings

The House Beyond the Hill $2.99

Product Description
The quiet suburb seems peaceful enough, until loner Donny Mann succumbs to the irresistible urge to drive the web of the Southern California freeways, armed with a stolen .38 -- and the unspeakable need to fire it. He finds his victims soon enough -- an old, black Cadillac alone on a dark stretch of highway. Three people witness the shooting. Three people see the Caddy crash. Three people know that no one left the wreck. But when the police arrive, they find the car empty of anything save blood ... and the horror locked in its trunk!

http://www.amazon.com/House-Beyond-H...2396025&sr=1-2

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The...el+r.+collings

The Slab $2.99

Product Description
1066 Oleander Place seems a typical tract house in the Southern California town of Tamarind Valley. What no one grasps is that this house is deadly: dark, dangerous, EVIL to the core. It consumes all who enter it, one by one--spiritually, psychologically, physically. Even to visit the place challenges fate--and promises a VERY BAD TIME for everyone there. In the tradition of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, a phantasmagoria of fear, horror, and terror!

http://www.amazon.com/Slab-Novel-Hor...2396025&sr=1-1

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The...el+r.+collings


Were Means Man and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror (16 Horror stories)

Product Description
Enter into a kaleidoscope of atmospheres, landscapes, characters, and alien worlds, and along the way meet:


* A murderer forced to confess by pressure from his own confederates;

* A monstrous creature that slaughters ruthlessly by day, and that by night…dreams;

* A psychic vampire with a curiously restrained taste for fine chocolate;

* An alien with the inexplicable ability to create beauty…and death;

* A world whose polluted environment means extinction for one species…and life renewed for another;

* A gravedigger whose avocation is providing plots for fledgling storytellers.

All of these—and more—lie compressed within the pages of Wer Means Man, and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror. This volume collects short stories by Michael R. Collings, author of The House Beyond the Hill, Wordsmith, Three Tales of Omne, and Singer of Lies and a widely known scholar of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Ranging from fully developed narratives to short-shorts hinging on ambiguities in a single word, these stories offer something for every taste…as long as that taste runs toward the uncanny, the eldritch, and the macabre.


Two versions at BN, one $3.99

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Wer...el+r.+collings

and one $4.99:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Wer...el+r.+collings

$4.99 at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Means-Other-Wo...395340&sr=1-17

$4.49 at Kobo (minus any coupons):

http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Wer-Means...7zQ/page1.html

SF/Fantasy

Singer of Lies $2.99

Product Description
He is young and intelligent and highly trained. He is Erik Baanfeld-shipwrecked on a long-forgotten Colony world, where brawn and brute strength are more valued than knowledge. Physically untrained, and emotionally unprepared in the barest skills of survival, he seems compelled to spend a short and very unpleasant life as a half-naked savage worked like a beast of burden, on a world so sunk into barbarism that its inhabitants have no concept of the wheel. It's either that-or die! His only possible chance, his only hope of becoming one with the Folk, is to become a singer-and not just any singer, but a Singer of Lies!

http://www.amazon.com/Singer-Lies-Sc...2396025&sr=1-9

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sin...el+r.+collings

Wordsmith - A Science Fiction Story (2 Complete Novels) $4.99

Product Description
This is Omne, a world of perpetual clouds without metals, machines, or technology, whose people harbor the secrets of an unimaginable power that can be used for destruction--or redemption! For the first time, both Wordsmith books (The Veil of Heaven and The Thousand Eyes of Flame) are assembled into one volume -- more than 530 pages of great science fiction!

http://www.amazon.com/Wordsmith-Scie...2396025&sr=1-6

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Wor...el+r.+collings

Three Tales of Omne (A Companion to Wordsmith) $2.99

Product Description
This is Omne, a world enveloped by perpetual clouds, without metals, machines, or technology, whose people harbor the secrets of an unimaginable power for destruction—or redemption…about to be unleashed by the Coming of the Wordsmith….

But before it became Omne, it was Colony, home of a small group of refugees from Earth, struggling to survive on a new planet and understand its rules…unaware of their gradual transformation into something no longer quite human. This is the story of how it all began….

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Tales-of...2396025&sr=1-7

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Thr...el+r.+collings

[Dr. Drib]

These do not appear to be "deals" at all, but are apparently the regular price in digital.



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