FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Some doors are locked for a reason.

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But pregnant and widowed just weeks after their wedding, with her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her late husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure—a silent companion—that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition—that is, until she notices the figure’s eyes following her.

A Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect—much like the companions themselves.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

"There was a brightness to him that made her eyes ache." Isn't that why they make sunglasses, so when you meet someone you're attracted to your eyeballs don't get burned? These are important aspects to consider in a horror novel.

Here, try some of MY writing that I just now made up: He reached over and popped her eyeball out like popping a pimple. Then, being an accomplished juggler, he did what jugglers do best.



Seriously: Thanks!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

"There was a brightness to him that made her eyes ache." Isn't that why they make sunglasses, so when you meet someone you're attracted to your eyeballs don't get burned? These are important aspects to consider in a horror novel.

Sounds like the author needs to learn from Corey Hart

Corey Hart: vampire hunter!

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by Desertway

How can I NOT take the opportunity to be labeled a weird connoisseur? I'm in.

Okay, you guys have convinced me. I am also a weird connoisseur

[ZodWallop]

The Sea, the Stars by Tim Meyer is $1 at Amazon.

After their uncle’s death, a pair of estranged siblings reconnects to sort through the belongings in his seaside home. When they stumble upon a mysterious box, they open themselves up to a world of nightmares… A disturbing Lovecraftian horror tale.

[Paperbackstash]

Hm, Valancourt has released two new sales for January, which is unusual

Plague of Gulls for 2.99 (I got this previously from library)
https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Gulls-...s%2C114&sr=8-1

and

Felix Timmerman's macabre 1910 collection INTIMATIONS OF DEATH
https://www.amazon.com/Intimations-D...s%2C112&sr=8-1

[Dr. Drib]

^^^

Thank you for this listing.

I'll probably have to get them both!

[Correct author's name: Felix Timmermans]

[radbaddude]

Limbs: A Love Story by Tim Meyer
Amazon US $0.99

I am not a monster.

Ray Bridges, a professional electronics salesman, is looking for love in all the strange places. He spends most nights sneaking into support group meetings for the disabled in order to satisfy his deepest, darkest desires—to hook up with unfortunate, down-on-their-luck women who’ve recently lost a limb. There's a name for Ray’s preference; it’s called acrotomophilia, a paraphilia involving amputees.

Conflicted, Ray wishes he could change. But he can’t. His body won’t let him. Nor will his mind. He’s destined to live this life, forever. That is . . . until he meets the perfect girl. Falls in love with her. Only problem: her arms and legs are attached.

Unable to find her attractive, Ray embarks on a dark, twisted journey of self-discovery, one that will force him to make an impossible choice: abandon his pursuit of true love or find a way to make it work, even if that means getting the girl of his dreams to shed an appendage.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Hm, Valancourt has released two new sales for January, which is unusual

Plague of Gulls for 2.99 (I got this previously from library)
https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Gulls-...s%2C114&sr=8-1

and

Felix Timmerman's macabre 1910 collection INTIMATIONS OF DEATH
https://www.amazon.com/Intimations-D...s%2C112&sr=8-1

Thanks for the Valencourt info. I've said it before: Sometimes it feels like they just don't want to sell books.

[ZodWallop]

Two cheap Stephen King books. $2 each. Get 'em while they last:

Carrie - Amazon, B&N, Kobo

Cycle of the Werewolf - Amazon,B&N, Kobo

[ZodWallop]

Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story by Clive Barker is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

From The Books of Blood to Hellraiser to Imajica, Abarat, and Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker’s extraordinary vision knows no bounds. With Coldheart Canyon, the New York Times bestselling master of dark fantasy who has been called “a cross between Stephen King and Gabriel Garcia Marquez” (Boston Herald) thrills readers with a “Hollywood ghost story” as audacious and chilling as anything he (or anyone else) has ever written.

Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood Hills. But the original owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden.

[ZodWallop]

Experimental Film by Gemma Files is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo.

The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series “explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling” (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy).

Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918.

Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

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Cross-posted to SF&F.
The Destroyer of Worlds by Matt Ruff is $2 in the US. (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
Sequel to Lovecraft Country.

n this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.

Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery, but an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a life-and-death pursuit.

Back in Chicago, George Berry is diagnosed with cancer and strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure—but only if George brings Winthrop back from the dead.

Fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret—and far more dangerous—agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep.

Hippolyta isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Letitia’s sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos.

Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he’s found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. But first he has a score to settle . . .

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Modern gothic fantasy.

I dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen….

Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago.

All she left behind were dark rumors—and her home. Everyone agrees that it’s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway.

I should be scared, but in the dream I don’t hesitate.

Opal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. When she gets the chance to step inside Starling House—and make some extra cash for her brother's escape fund—she can't resist.

But sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House, and Arthur’s own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around.

In my dream, I’m home.

And now she’ll have to fight.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Cross-posted to SF&F.
The Destroyer of Worlds by Matt Ruff is $2 in the US. (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
Sequel to Lovecraft Country.

I was coming to share the same. I question the need for a sequel to Lovecraft Country, but hey, $2.

BTW: The Lovecraft Country TV series on HBO is highly recommended. I might have liked it more than the book.

[BetterRead]

The $2.99 Specials for February from Valancourt Books. Available on Kindle worldwide.

Requiem at Rogano by Stephen Knight

London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in pattern to the present-day crimes. What possible connection could there be between these horrific events separated by almost 450 years? Brough and Calvin are determined to find out—but they are not prepared for the terrible truth they will uncover.

Originally published in 1979, this new edition of Knight's novel, a page-turning supernatural thriller whose plot twists will keep readers enthralled, features an introduction by Bernard Taylor.

Shadows of War by Robert Westall

Master storyteller Robert Westall (1929-1993) loved writing about three subjects above all: World War II, cats, and ghosts, and all three of these interests are on display in this collection featuring eleven of Westall's finest wartime stories, several of them supernatural. Originally published between 1982 and 1997, these stories are gathered together here for the first time and will delight readers of all ages.