FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Lots of Christopher Golden on sale at $2.99 a pop:

Strangewood

As TJ Randall, he pens the tales of Strangewood, the most popular series of children's books since The Wizard of Oz. As Thomas Randall, he is a recently divorced father coping with joint custody, which permit him with only weekend visits with his young son. But when his son is hospitalized with an incurable catatonia, the reality and fantasy of Thomas's life start to merge... His son has been taken hostage into the world Randall created. Strangewood is at war.

The Ferryman

Janine Hartschorn left David Bairstow for a man who abandoned her once he discovered she was pregnant with his child. A miscarriage almost ended her life. Now she and David are reaching for a second chance.

But something is determined to keep them apart. Something with the power to conjure up ghosts from David?s past and make them real. Something Janine knows from her near-death experience.

Wildwood Road

Michael and Jillian Dansky seemed to have it all–a happy marriage, two successful careers, a bright future. But late one October evening, all that changed. Driving home from a Halloween masquerade, Michael momentarily nods off behind the wheel–and wakes to find nothing is the same.Standing by his car is the little girl he came within a breath of running down. She leads Michael to her “home,” an empty house haunted by whispers, and sends him away with a haunting whisper of her own: “come find me.” But in the weeks to follow, it’s clear that someone–or some thing–doesn’t want Michael to find her: ominous figures in grey coats with misshapen faces are following him everywhere. And then Jillian wakes one morning replaced by a cold, cruel, vindictive woman Michael hardly recognizes as his wife. Michael must now search not only for the lost girl, but for a way to find the Jillian he's always loved, and to do so he must return to where the nightmare began. Down an isolated lane where he’ll find them, or die trying.

The Boys Are Back In Town

For Will James, facing his tenth high school reunion is far from his finest hour, especially since his life has not gone as planned. Dumped at the altar by his high school sweetheart and with dreams of being a prize-winning reporter dashed by his job at a Boston tabloid, he's not sure he is ready to face his former peers. But what he discovers at the reunion is more than he bargained for. It seems one of his buddies had died several years back -- even though Will received an e-mail from him only a few days ago.

It's not long before other people Will was convinced were alive turn out to be dead as well, or married to other people, or childless where they used to have children. And new memories are swarming in to replace what Will is convinced was his old life, until he no longer knows what is real and what is not. The only thing knows for sure is that if he can't figure out why he’s the only one who recalls this other life, very soon his memories will be eclipsed by this new, darker reality.

The Waking Trilogy

Akane Murakami died for a boy she did not love.

So begins Christopher Golden’s terrifying horror trilogy, THE WAKING. Published under the pseudonym Thomas Randall, the first book in the series drew raves and chills from readers and reviewers alike. Featuring a cast of both teenagers and adults, THE WAKING TRILOGY is for all readers who love horror, mystery, suspense, and ancient folklore. A decade after its debut, the trilogy is finally complete in this single volume that includes the first print publication of the final book in the series.

THE WAKING: DREAMS OF THE DEAD

When Kara Harper starts her new school in Japan, she has no idea she's about to confront an ancient evil. But before long, Kara begins to have nightmares, and soon students turn up dead, viciously attacked by someone . . . or something. As Kara makes friends, she learns that there are secrets haunting the student body. Is the spirit of a murdered girl seeking revenge? Or is the killer more ancient and terrifying than an outsider can understand?

THE WAKING: SPIRITS OF THE NOH

Kara is finally starting to fit in at her boarding school in Japan -- after all, nothing bonds you with your classmates like having an ancient demon put a curse on you. Hoping life can go back to normal, Kara joins her friends Sakura and Miho in putting on a play for the Noh drama club. It's the story of the Hannya, a snake demon who inhabits the body of a beautiful woman. But when a few members of the Noh club go missing, Kara fears that the real Hannya has been awakened...

THE WAKING: A WINTER OF GHOSTS

Kara's life has been a whirlwind of terror, as a demon's curse keeps waking ancient, evil creatures to torment her and her friends. When a student goes missing during a visit to a mountain forest, Kara and her friends are sure the curse has struck again. This time, it's a demon of winter, whose power is more chilling than anything they've encountered so far. And then it gets worse: the demon kidnaps Kara's boyfriend, Hachiro, with whom she's just starting to fall in love. Desperate to save him, Kara ventures back into the snowy woods, where dark forces await her…

The Ocean Dark

In the uncharted waters of the Caribbean, far from the usual shipping lanes, lies a mysterious island surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships--an island so remote that it's the perfect rendezvous point for a handful of Central American arms dealers and the Antoinette, a gun-smuggling cargo ship out of Miami. Amid the wreckage of ships new and old, the crew of the Antoinette--and the undercover FBI agent on board--enter what looks like a haven for modern pirates, only to discover that it hides something far more terrifying.In Washington, two Department of Defense scientists might understand what is about to happen. On an FBI ship monitoring the Antoinette's illegal trade, armed agents might be able to intervene. But this assumes that the Antoinette's crew survives their first encounter with a creature virtually unknown to man, yet whose eerie songs nevertheless echo down the corridors of mankind's darkest legends.

[ZodWallop]

Strange Ink by Gary Kemble is $1.99

After moving into a new house in Queensland, Australia, journalist Harry Hendrick wakes up with tattoos that aren’t his...

When washed-up journalist Harry Hendrick wakes one morning with a hangover and a strange symbol tattooed on his neck, he shrugs it off as a bad night out. But soon more tattoos appear: grisly, violent images which come accompanied by horrific nightmares...

He begins to dig deeper. Harry’s search leads him to a sinister disappearance, torment from beyond the grave, and a web of corruption and violence tangled with his own past. One way or another, he has to right the wrongs.

[Dr. Drib]

Here's a nice-looking FREE ebook by Clark Ashton Smith: Lair of the Eldritch Dark: The Collected Works of Clark Ashton Smith (Illustrated) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Lair-Eldritch...k+Ashton+Smith

This appears to contain all of his poetry, along with a nice, huge helping of fiction.

1150 pages.

This is a great bargain. I already have everything (I think), as I am a HUGE fan of Smith's work.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Here's a nice-looking FREE ebook by Clark Ashton Smith: Lair of the Eldritch Dark: The Collected Works of Clark Ashton Smith (Illustrated) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Lair-Eldritch...k+Ashton+Smith

Very nice find! Thank you!

[Hollow Man]

The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus is $2.99 at Amazon USA.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus is $2.99 at Amazon USA.

Your avatar is appropriate.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Your avatar is appropriate.

I've had this avatar for so unbelievably long that I sometimes forget it's there. This being one of those times. 😆

[salty-horse]

Come Closer by Sara Gran is $3 on Amazon.com

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.

The new voice in Amanda’s head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Come Closer by Sara Gran is $3 on Amazon.com

Oh, No: The price is now one cent higher!!!!

[ZodWallop]

Hide and Seek by Jack Ketchum is $0.99 at Amazon US.

Hide and Seek is a book about games. Reckless, dangerous games. Games you might even want to play yourself if you’re with the right people. But shouldn’t. Not ever. In a small Maine town, a group of thrill-seeking college kids finds a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house turning into a reality of stark terror.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus is $2.99 at Amazon USA.

Here's an interview with the author:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGO5gWyIHo

BTW, this Lovecraft eZine channel is great. It's hosted by Laird Barron's friends who set up his fundraiser, which made me check it out. They have tons of interviews with authors and editors and they all seem like a cool bunch that are fun to hang out with.

Unrelated, I also found some amusing Grady Hendrix videos.
Here's a lecture and panel about his co-authored non-fiction book Paperbacks from Hell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31tNLFx-_t4

And a discussion with Stephen Graham Jones about the best either/or in Horror (mostly movies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HbDPCntH5U

[ZodWallop]

Sleeping Beauties by Owen King, Stephen King is $1.99 at Amazon US.

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanted to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a woman’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.

[salty-horse]

New Fears II edited by Mark Morris is $2 in US stores (links)
An anthology of new stories, published in 2018.
Table of contents: https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?676466

[Dr. Drib]

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And direct from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Fears-II-...s%2C175&sr=8-1

[ZodWallop]

Autumn: Dawn by David Moody is FREE at Amazon US. I've not read any of David Moody's books, but he was an early success in self publishing. I remember hearing about Autumn before there was a Kindle.

WELCOME TO LONDON

Population seven million • 99.9% of them dead • the survival of the rest balanced on a knife-edge

THE WORLD IS DEAD

Two months ago, billions of people were killed by a deadly germ. Days later, they rose up again in massive numbers. Since then, cities worldwide have become corpse-filled, rat-infested, germ-choked hellholes.

A group of people are trapped in central London, hopelessly outnumbered by the dead. They hear rumours of a safe haven in the north – a self-sufficient community where people from across the country have gathered to try and rebuild their lives. But the decaying ruins of the capital are vast and sprawling, and they’re going to need an army to get away from this place.

There are other people here, waiting in the shadows to be found. Can enough of them band together to make a difference, or has the country – maybe even the entire world – already been lost to the dead?

The first book in a new trilogy set in the nightmare world of David Moody's international best-selling AUTUMN series.