FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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We Are Here To Hurt Each Other by Paula Ashe
Amazon US $0.99

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. A landscape of urban decay and human degradation, this collection finds the psychic pressure points of us all, and giddily squeezes. Try to run, try to hide, but there is no escape: we are here to hurt each other.

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Road of Bones by Christopher Golden $3.99 at Amazon US.
$3.99 is high, but the book is normally $15.

An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's Road of Bones, a "tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell" (Stephen King) supernatural thriller.

Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.

But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union's gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.

Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix "Teig" Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, "the coldest place on Earth", collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl -- and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be.

Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig's companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past.

[Kieran Seymour]

A 1970s set ghost story. Haven't read it, and in fact hadn't heard of it until today, but it sounds like the perfect piece of October reading material...

99p Daily Deal in the UK today.

The Apparition Phase - Will Maclean.

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

Twins Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers, spending their evenings in the attic of their parents' suburban house, poring over reports of the unexplained. Obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions, they decide to fake their own, and use it to frighten a girl at school.

But what was only supposed to be a harmless prank sets in motion a deadly and terrifying chain of events that neither of them could have predicted...

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Doing this on my cell phone. Please forgive any misspellings or weird words.

Soul-Eater by Dana Brookins is $2.99 at Amazon US.

NO ONE LIVED IN THE HOUSE IN PELLAM WOODS...

The mansion in Pellam Woods had been shipped in, piece by piece, and reconstructed in the forest at the edge of town. The citizens of Edgar Falls wondered who would build such a grand house in their sleepy little backwater. But the house sat vacant….

THEN THE DYING BEGAN….

A mother lights her home ablaze, burning her six children alive…

A young boy drowns himself in a lake....

Twelve year old Bobby Topin sensed something evil inside the house. Something that tried to crawl inside his mind. One by one, the townsfolk are falling victim to their darkest impulses. And only Bobby knows that the house where no one lives is home to a malevolent force...

SOUL-EATER

Check out the original cover!

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Let There Be Dark by Allen Lee Harris is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Don’t think about it…
Don’t talk about it…
And if you feel a prickling on the back of your neck…
DON’T TURN AROUND!

Matt Hardison doesn’t believe in the Shadowstealer, an evil spirit that could steal a person’s shadow and demand they sacrifice pieces of themselves. It was just a local boogeyman, a gruesome campfire yarn to frighten youngsters; not something that adults took seriously.

‘The Shadowstealer’ is Matt’s new novel, a bestseller featuring the creepy legend that frightened him as a child. However, Matt has forgotten one very important thing about the Shadowstealer: it can only claim your shadow if you believe in it...

And his new book has just created thousands of believers…

LET THERE BE DARK

Again, the original cover.

[Paperbackstash]

Man, that original cover rocks.

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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Man, that original cover rocks.

The reviews on Amazon are very good. Maybe an undiscovered gem?

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The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler is $2.99 at Amazon US.

This is one of those MASSIVE paperback Otto Penzler collections. The Kindle version is listed as having +1,600 pages. A very good deal.

Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations.

The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon.

These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight.

Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!

[Kieran Seymour]

Happy 75th birthday to Stephen King!

And here's a 99p Daily Deal bargain in the UK to mark the occasion:

Different Seasons

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

It's a collection of four novellas, including two of his most famous stories - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Body. Highly recommended.

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Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Happy 75th birthday to Stephen King!

And here's a 99p Daily Deal bargain in the UK to mark the occasion:

Different Seasons

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

It's a collection of four novellas, including two of his most famous stories - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Body. Highly recommended.

Apt Pupil is one of the scariest things he's written.

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Whisper Down the Lane by Clay Chapman
Amazon US $1.99

Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school’s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn’t celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . .

In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last—and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him.

Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same?

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Whisper Down the Lane by Clay Chapman
Amazon US $1.99

Oh yeah! I have this one and have been meaning to read it.

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Toxic Shadows by Tim Curran is $0.99 at Amazon US. I read Curran's Deadlock a while back and really enjoyed it.

Cut River, Michigan. Population: 0. The town the Devil built. Once it was a sleepy backwater town and once there were people in it.Then a lurking pestilence ate the flesh from its bones. A pestilence born in the smoldering graveyards of nameless, forgotten battlefields. And now there is only a shifting darkness in Cut River, a darkness populated by hideous shadows that pretend to be people. Seven strangers will arrive. If they can stay alive until dawn, they'll survive. But to do that will mean engaging in a bloody war of attrition against the things that crawl and hunt in the night. Things that wear the faces of men, women, and children. Toxic Shadows.

Welcome to Cut River. Welcome to the graveyard.

War is Hell.

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

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one.
The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry...

New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.

The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.

Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.

And neither are the rest of us.