FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I've not read Blindness by Jose Saramago, but I remember when the book came out. It sounds terrific.

It does. I ended up picking it up from the sale.

As for The Ballad of Black Tom, I listened to the audio on Scribd, but would enjoy reading the story. Curious on the others included in the collection.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

As for The Ballad of Black Tom, I listened to the audio on Scribd, but would enjoy reading the story. Curious on the others included in the collection.

When I bought it, there wasn't a collection. The novella was a stand-alone.

The collection does sound very promising though. And it's a buck cheaper than the stand-alone!

[ZodWallop]

It's been on sale before, but I'll share it every time:

Ghost Story by Peter Straub is on sale for $1.99. Ghost Story is one of the best horror novels I've ever read. If you're thinking about it, buy it already!

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?

In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.

But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

It's been on sale before, but I'll share it every time:

Ghost Story by Peter Straub is on sale for $1.99. Ghost Story is one of the best horror novels I've ever read. If you're thinking about it, buy it already!

Got it. Thank you

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by svenlind

Got it. Thank you

Now if you hate it you will know never to trust my judgement again

(Though honestly, I can't imagine anyone hating Ghost Story. It is a gen-u-wine classic.)

[BetterRead]

In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson is currently $1.99 at Amazon US.

A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

In this bold, confident debut, Davidson takes the vampire myth to 1980s West Texas, perfectly capturing the feel of the era and place . . . Davidson successfully makes the lines between genre and literary fiction bleed together in a complex novel of horror, human nature, and the American South." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1XNTF7/

[ZodWallop]

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff is $2.99 at Amazon US.

I read the book a few years ago and really enjoyed it. It's a series of interlinked short stories and, really, the first one is by far the best. If the rest of the book never quite equals the beginning, it's still a very interesting and creative horror fantasy.

I haven't yet seen the TV series.

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

[ZodWallop]

Devolution by Max Brooks is $2.99. His follow-up to zombies is Bigfoot.

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death.

Yet it is also far more than that.

Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.

Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before.

[ZodWallop]

A Shadow on the Wall by Jonathan Aycliffe is $1.99 at Amazon US.

This is an old fashioned ghost story and was described as 'slow' by more than one reviewer. But that may be just your cup of tea.

Some things are best left undisturbed . . .

In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church’s crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague the church, Atherton calls upon fellow antiquarian and Cambridge professor Richard Asquith to help investigate the strange events that began in the wake of the tomb’s disturbance.

The two discover tantalizing hints of whom and what may have been laid to rest in the tomb, but the unforeseen circumstances force Asquith to give up his inquiries and leave the small village of Thornham behind. Asquith tries to put the frightening experiences behind him and focus on his new wife and family. But death and disappearances abound, and Asquith soon has no choice but to confront the darkness that has followed him from that ancient church into his own home.

[ZodWallop]

Snowball by Gregory Bastianelli is $0.99 at Amazon US. This is one of the Fiction Without Frontiers books.

A group of motorists become stranded on a lonely stretch of highway during a Christmas Eve blizzard and fight for survival against an unnatural force in the storm. The gathered survivors realize a tenuous connection among them means it may not be a coincidence that they all ended up on this highway. An attempt to seek help leads a few of the travelers to a house in the woods where a twisted toymaker with a mystical snow globe is hell bent on playing deadly games with a group of people just trying to get home for the holidays.

[ReadingManiac]

A repeat but Letters to the Damned by Austin Crawley is on .99 on Amazon, all countries.

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Damne.../dp/B01J1QBS3Q

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Snowball by Gregory Bastianelli is $0.99 at Amazon US. This is one of the Fiction Without Frontiers books.

Looks good, thank you! I have been wanting to read more winter based horror and mysteries this year.

[ZodWallop]

Allison by Jeff Strand is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Allison can break your bones with her mind, and she can't control her power.

Now forty-five years old, she's spent her life trying to stay away from other people. But a random encounter with a couple on the street leaves her believing that she may have done something horrible. Something unforgivable.

Killer-for-hire Daxton and his girlfriend Maggie know the truth. Instead of easing Allison's anguish, they come up with a cruel plan to take advantage of it. But with Allison's abilities exposed, there may be a grisly body count very soon...

[radbaddude]

The Line That Held Us by David Joy
Amazon US $1.99

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world. The Line That Held Us is a story of friendship and family, a tale balanced between destruction and redemption, where the only hope is to hold on tight, clenching to those you love. What will you do for the people who mean the most, and what will you grasp to when all that you have is gone? The only certainty in a place so shredded is that no one will get away unscathed.

[ZodWallop]

Sins of the Father by JG Faherty is $0.99 at Amazon US. This is one of the Fiction Without Frontiers/Flame Tree Press books.

"With SINS OF THE FATHER, JG Faherty injects new life into one of H. P. Lovecraft's most storied settings – the demon-haunted town of Innsmouth. With a tale that spans from Innsmouth to Arkham, from the spaces between the stars to the depths of the sea, from Miskatonic's marbled halls to Antarctica's icy plains, Faherty will have you smelling the stench of rotting fish...and feeling the fingers of clammy, cold hands around your throat." -- Brett J. Talley

Henry Gilman has spent years trying to separate himself from his father’s legacy of murder and insanity. Now he has the chance – all he has to do is figure out who’s been killing people in Innsmouth. Then he’ll be a hero and win the heart of the woman he loves, Flora Marsh. But soon he’s caught in a web of danger, with the undead stalking the streets at night, a terrible monster lurking below the city, and a prophecy of destruction about to come true. In the process, his actions cause unwanted consequences and to save Flora he has to do the very thing he’s spent his life trying to avoid: follow his father’s footsteps into madness.