FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[salty-horse]

I don't know how you find it amusing to mock people's physical appearance, especially when it's affected by a genetic disorder.


A bunch of Horror is on sale today. Here's a couple by Tananarive Due:

The Between is $2 (Kobo, Amazon.com

When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake.

When Hilton's wife, the only elected African American judge in Dade County, Florida, begins to receive racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons lurking outside are matched by his internal terrors—macabre nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are these bizarre dreams the dark imaginings of a man losing his hold on sanity—or are they harbingers of terrible events to come?

As Hilton battles both the sociopath threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep, the line between reality and fantasy dissolves . . .

Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between is the haunting story of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves as he slowly loses himself.

My Soul to Keep is $3 (Kobo, Amazon.com)

When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever.

Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force that Stephen King called 'An eerie epic' is sure to win Due a legion of new fans.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I don't know how you find it amusing to mock people's physical appearance, especially when it's affected by a genetic disorder.

You and I feel differently. I'll leave it at that.

A bunch of Horror is on sale today. Here's a couple by Tananarive Due:

I've heard good things about Due. Where would you start?

Edit: I'd already purchased My Soul to Take and The Between (which sounds great!) is off sale

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I've heard good things about Due. Where would you start?

Edit: I'd already purchased My Soul to Take and The Between (which sounds great!) is off sale

Not really a horror reader, so start with what you have. I listen to Due and Barnes' podcast, and I think LeVar Burton told them couldn't get through it, so good luck.

[salty-horse]

Little Eve by Catriona Ward is $3 on Kobo US, Amazon.com
Winner of the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.
The cover features one my favorite modern publishing tropes: Upside down houses are evil.

“A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth.

The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction.

A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong.

And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.

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When The Reckoning Comes By LaTanya McQueen is on sale for 1.99

Harper Collins link - which links to Amazon, Kobo and all stores
https://www.harpercollins.com/produc...ent=promo-deep

A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.

More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse—the boy she secretly loved—arrested for murder.

But now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celine’s wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. Mira hopes to reconnect with her friends, and especially, Jesse, to finally tell him the truth about her feelings and the events of that devastating long-ago day.

But for all its fancy renovations, the Woodsman remains a monument to its oppressive racist history. The bar serves antebellum drinks, entertainment includes horrifying reenactments, and the service staff is nearly all black. Yet the darkest elements of the plantation’s past have been carefully erased—rumors that slaves were tortured mercilessly and that ghosts roam the lands, seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who tormented them, which includes most of the wedding guests.

As the weekend unfolds, Mira, Jesse, and Celine are forced to acknowledge their history together, and to save themselves from what is to come.

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Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke
$1.49 Amazon US
pp. 84

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat together overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him to eat candy whenever he wants and set his own bedtimes. Some might say that such leniency is starting to take its toll on the father, given how his health has declined.

What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life.

[ZodWallop]

Cross-posting from non-fiction, because it seems like fans of a couple of genres would enjoy the book.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is $1.99 at Amazon,B&N and Kobo US.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.

“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.

Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.

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The Graveyard Apartment - 1.99 on Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B01D8F656Q

One of the most popular writers working in Japan today, Mariko Koike is a recognized master of detective fiction and horror writing. Known in particular for her hybrid works that blend these styles with elements of romance, The Graveyard Apartment is arguably Koike’s masterpiece. Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike’s novel is the suspenseful tale of a young family that believes it has found the perfect home to grow into, only to realize that the apartment’s idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and that longer they stay, the more trapped they become.

This tale of a young married couple who harbor a dark secret is packed with dread and terror, as they and their daughter move into a brand new apartment building built next to a graveyard. As strange and terrifying occurrences begin to pile up, people in the building start to move out one by one, until the young family is left alone with someone... or something... lurking in the basement. The psychological horror builds moment after moment, scene after scene, culminating with a conclusion that will make you think twice before ever going into a basement again.

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A Head Full of Ghosts on sale for 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B00MTSKHKO

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.

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Valancourt Publishing Sales for April 2023 - They alternate sales a month at a time

Both 2.99 this month

Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Nov...t%2C135&sr=1-1

Childgrave by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076CFBS61

They did not put Hellhound on sale with the rest of their author's works this month.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Valancourt Publishing Sales for April 2023 - They alternate sales a month at a time

Both 2.99 this month

Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Nov...t%2C135&sr=1-1

Childgrave by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076CFBS61

They did not put Hellhound on sale with the rest of their author's works this month.

Not on sale at Kobo. Bummer. I've been trying to avoid Amazon.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

The Graveyard Apartment - 1.99 on Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B01D8F656Q

Kobo link.

Hey, this sounds great! Thanks!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Valancourt Publishing Sales for April 2023 - They alternate sales a month at a time

Both 2.99 this month

Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Nov...t%2C135&sr=1-1

Childgrave by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076CFBS61

They did not put Hellhound on sale with the rest of their author's works this month.

Got them.

Thank you!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Valancourt Publishing Sales for April 2023 - They alternate sales a month at a time

Both 2.99 this month

Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Nov...t%2C135&sr=1-1

Childgrave by Ken Greenhall -
Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076CFBS61

They did not put Hellhound on sale with the rest of their author's works this month.

BTW: Please feel free to share any Valencourt books you see on sale. I have several in my ereaderIQ alerts, but would have missed these if it weren't for your post.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

BTW: Please feel free to share any Valencourt books you see on sale. I have several in my ereaderIQ alerts, but would have missed these if it weren't for your post.

Absolutely. I follow them on Twitter and finally figured out this year they'll do limited themed sales that last each month, so I'll try to post them monthly as I always check. I try to collect these but they can be kind of pricey sometimes.