FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

IIRC you got Revelator when I posted about it before. It also has a similar setting.

Yep. That one is definitely on my to read list!

[salty-horse]

Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon
Reprint anthology. Came across this (several months long?) deal by accident while listening to an old interview with Angela Slatter, who has two stories in this.
Contents:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?429640

EDIT: Actually, all 3 anthologies in this series are on sale: Kobo, Amazon

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon
Reprint anthology. Came across this (several months long?) deal by accident while listening to an old interview with Angela Slatter, which has two stories in this.
Contents:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?429640

EDIT: Actually, all 3 anthologies in this series are on sale: Kobo, Amazon

This is a wonderful series. And, as mentioned, all 3 are on sale. And the price is only $5.97

ENJOYABLE STORIES.

[ZodWallop]

Horror Show by Greg Kihn is $1.50 at Amazon (full price elsewhere). It was something of a cult classic when it was released. Kihn (he did the song Jeopardy) really loves this stuff and it shows.

A Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best First Novel: This endlessly inventive thriller pays homage to 1950s Hollywood horror films—with a demonic twist

Schlock horror director Landis Woodley lives in a decaying mansion in the Hollywood Hills. When he abandoned the movie business—after being reduced to filming skin flicks and peep shows—he also left a laundry list of enemies, including the IRS. But avid fan Clint Stockbern is determined to write a piece on the alcoholic recluse for Monster magazine. Woodley agrees to the interview—for $600 in cash.

As the tape recorder starts rolling, Stockbern travels back in time with Woodley. He hears recollections of Attack of the Haunted Saucer, the worst movie of all time, and Blood Ghouls of Malibu. But he really wants to know about Woodley’s masterpiece, Cadaver. Shot on location in the Los Angeles County morgue, the film was rumored to have used real corpses and everyone associated with the production has been fatally haunted since its 1957 release. But the truth is far more terrifying than Stockbern imagined. Is a dead Satanist, possessed by the devil, reaching out beyond the grave? Or is the reporter the final victim in a diabolical scheme dreamed up by mortals?

Horror Show is a wild and wacky romp that sends up mid-century Hollywood horror movies and schlockmeisters Roger Corman, William Castle, and Ed Wood.

For fun, here's the Jeopardy video. I loved it when I was a kid. Fun and creepy.

[salty-horse]

This isn't horror, but is about Lovecraft.

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge is $5 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.

Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them.

A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.

As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Horror Show by Greg Kihn is $1.50 at Amazon (full price elsewhere). It was something of a cult classic when it was released. Kihn (he did the song Jeopardy) really loves this stuff and it shows.



For fun, here's the Jeopardy video. I loved it when I was a kid. Fun and creepy.

It's a shame he died just a few weeks ago. [August 13, 2024 (aged 75)]

Unfortunately, he had Alzheimer's disease.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

It's a shame he died just a few weeks ago. [August 13, 2024 (aged 75)]

Unfortunately, he had Alzheimer's disease.

Oh no! I didn't know!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

This isn't horror, but is about Lovecraft.

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge is $5 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Horror or no, The Night Ocean sounds pretty good.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Oh no! I didn't know!

And I didn't know he was responsible for two hit songs even though I'm familiar with the name, having had his albums (at one time), and being very familiar with those two songs.

I just never associated him with that horror novel.

A very talented person!

ADDED: In that video, I see a slight resemblance to ol' Indiana Jones. (Just imagine the hat.)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Horror or no, The Night Ocean sounds pretty good.

I just purchased it. It sounds like a wonderful read.

Thank you, salty-horse.

[BetterRead]

Time again for the latest $2.99 Valancourt deals at Amazon. Prices are good through 9/15.

The Third Grave by David Case.

When archaeologist Thomas Ashley is invited to remote Devonshire by Lucian Mallory to examine and decipher millennia-old papyrus scrolls, he is unable to resist the offer, despite knowing of Mallory’s sinister and unsavory reputation. The scrolls, retrieved from an ancient necropolis, purportedly contain Egyptian secrets of resurrection and immortality. From the moment of Ashley’s arrival, it is clear something is terribly wrong: a gruesome murder has been committed, and everyone is fearful a madman is on the loose. But the truth is far more shocking....

Wicked Stepmother by Michael McDowell & Dennis Schuetz, writing as Axel Young

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now Louise has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children. But what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children?

Wicked Stepmother (1983) is the second of the camp classics written by Michael McDowell in collaboration with Dennis Schuetz.

Valancourt calls it a "wickedly fun 80s thriller".