FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I've always been somewhat ambivalent about his work... (I have most of his ebooks, but I'm just in no hurry to read them.)

We're in the same Hautala boat!

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We Will Rise by Tim Waggoner is $0.99 at Amazon US.

In Echo Hill, Ohio, the dead begin to reappear, manifesting in various forms, from classic ghosts and poltergeists, to physical undead and bizarre apparitions for which there is no name. These malign spirits attack the living, tormenting and ultimately killing them in order to add more recruits to their spectral ranks.

A group of survivors come together after the initial attack, all plagued by different ghostly apparitions of their own. Can they make it out of Echo Hill alive? And if so, will they still be sane? Or will they die and join the ranks of the vengeful dead?

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A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs is $2 on Amazon.com
Includes the novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow.

The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.

In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself.

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The Damnation Game by Clive Barker is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.

As time passes, Mamoulian haunts Whitehead using his supernatural powers (such as the ability to raise the dead), urging him to complete his pact with him. Eventually Whitehead decides to escape his fate after a few encounters with Mamoulian and having his wife, former bodyguard, and now his daughter Carys taken away from him. With hope still left to save Carys, Marty Strauss, although reluctant to get involved in the old man Whiteheads deserved punishment, decides to get involved and attempt to save the innocent gifted addict from being another victim to the damnation game.

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Hell Train by Iain Rob Wright is $0.99 at Amazon US. This is marked as part of a series, Cursed Manuscripts. But that is mostly marketing. The books are unrelated.

From multi-time Amazon bestselling author of over 40 books, Iain Rob Wright, comes a modern day ode to Stephen King's The Langoliers. Horror meets mystery in a novel you'll never forget, and you won't want to catch a train ever again. Grab your copy of Hell Train today to see what so many readers have been screaming about.

Welcome aboard. Your destination is Hell.

Clip and Xavi are students in love, and have just boarded a train in order to catch their afternoon lectures. But they aren't going to make their destination today. Fate has other plans for them.

The world is about to stop making sense, and Clip and Xavi's bright futures are going to be cut very short. The train just entered a tunnel, but it doesn't seem to be coming out the other end. It's almost as if the tunnel goes on forever. And ever. And ever.

And ever.

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For a short time Jonathan Janz's novella has a pre-preorder price of 99 cents

The Dismembered
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLGRY5LM...eniuslink=true

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

For a short time Jonathan Janz's novella has a pre-preorder price of 99 cents

The Dismembered
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLGRY5LM...eniuslink=true

Thanks.

I'll get this when it comes out. It looks very enjoyable.

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The House That Fell from the Sky by Patrick Delaney is $0.99 at Amazon US.

When twenty-nine-year-old Scarlett Vantassel comes to the conclusion that her life doesn’t resemble any of the things she actually wanted for herself, she drops out of school and moves back home, attempting to reconnect with the people she left behind. But a shadow falls over her return one early October morning when a sinister house miraculously appears in the center of the city, sparking a media frenzy that attracts attention nationwide.



Soon after the newspapers label it, "The House that Fell from the Sky," Scarlett’s childhood friend Hannah becomes obsessed with the idea that the house holds the key to discovering whether there really is life after death. Undeterred by her friends' numerous warnings, Hannah becomes increasingly consumed with the desire to enter the house, convinced it would allow her to reconnect with her recently deceased mother.



Despite a series of escalating events suggesting that the house may be more dangerous than anyone ever thought possible, a privately owned company seizes control of the property and hosts a lottery to lure the city’s residents, promising the winners a large cash reward if they dare to enter the house.

 To Scarlett’s horror, Hannah uses her vast wealth to secure a spot among the winners to gain access to the house.

Now, it’s up to Scarlett, her older brother Tommy, and her friend Jackson to face their fears and journey into a place where nothing is ever quite as it seems, and decide if they can help a friend in need, or if Hannah truly is lost.

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Subhuman by Michael McBride is $1.99 at Amazon US.

At a secret Antarctic lab, scientists make a shocking discovery—one that is ancient, terrifying, and very hungry—in this horror thriller series debut.

Five of the world's top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human. Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica, the submerged ruins of a lost civilization hold the key to the strange mutations that each scientist has encountered across the globe: A misshapen skull in Russia; the grotesque carvings of a lost race in Peru; the mummified remains of a humanoid monstrosity in Egypt...

When a series of sound waves trigger the ancient organisms, a new kind of evolution begins. Latching onto a human host—crossbreeding with human DNA—a long-extinct life form is reborn. Its kind has not walked the earth for thousands of years. Its instincts are more savage than any predator alive. And its prey are the scientists who unleashed it...

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ZodWallop:

Have you seen this book anywhere?

It's looks to be deliciously disgusting!

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

ZodWallop:

Have you seen this book anywhere?

It's looks to be deliciously disgusting!

Hey Dr! Indeed I have. There's also a sequel called The City with an even more lurid cover (see attached) and that one was toned down.

Here's the uncensored image:

Spoiler:

Richard Haigh is actually a pen name for British schlock-meister Laurence James. There's a small publisher Piccadilly Publishing that has been republishing his westerns and a series of Hell's Angels fantasies he wrote. I emailed them to ask if they had any plans to reprint any of his horror work. I'll let you know if they reply.

Here's an article by Grady Hendrix about The Farm.

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Floating Dragon by Peter Straub is $1.99 at Amazon US. I'd highly recommend picking it up. Aside from King, Straub was my favorite horror author. Floating Dragon is maybe overly ambitious, with a sentient(?) chemical fog and an ancient supernatural evil threatening the little town of Hampstead.

Straub admired 'Salem's Lot and the way King involved a whole town in his horror story, so Straub took a crack at it twice, with Ghost Story and Floating Dragon being the results. Both are well worth a horror fan's attention.

The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous unstoppable creation of man’s power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child’s play...

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

There's a small publisher Piccadilly Publishing that has been republishing his westerns and a series of Hell's Angels fantasies he wrote. I emailed them to ask if they had any plans to reprint any of his horror work. I'll let you know if they reply.

Alas, this was my response:

At the moment I'm afraid we have no plans to reissue THE FARM or THE CITY. But there are plenty more Laurence James books to come throughout 2023.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Alas, this was my response:

Well, that's a damn shame about no plans to reprint the horror novels.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Well, that's a damn shame about no plans to reprint the horror novels.

I figured it was a long shot. Piccadilly Publishing is mainly focused on bringing back old westerns. They have branched out, but I don't think anything else has hit like the westerns have.

On the upside, the author's estate is able to be contacted. Maybe some other indie publisher could republish some of his horror novels.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but this author Laurence James wrote the first 33 Deathlands books (well, the first one was half written when the original author died and he took over).