FREE/BARGAIN - Horror/Supernatural

[Paperbackstash]

Last Days by Adam Neville is on the daily Amazon Sale for 2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Ada...=vSmF5vuGsCSO-

Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle's brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding an organization that became a testament to paranoia, murderous rage, and occult rituals. The shoot's locations take him to the cult's first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizonan desert where The Temple of the Last Days met its bloody end. But when he interviews those involved in the case, those who haven't broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events plague the shoots. Troubling out-of-body experiences, nocturnal visitations, the sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly artifacts in their room make Kyle question what exactly it is the cult managed to awaken – and what is its interest in him?

[Paperbackstash]

NOS4A2 is on sale with Amazon Book Sale for 1.99

https://www.amazon.com/NOS4A2-Novel-...=vSmF5vuGsCSO-

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.

Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.

Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special—something Vic can never replace.

As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all—or die trying.

[ZodWallop]

Not horror. But crossposted because it was written by Charles Beaumont.

The Intruder by Charles Beaumont is $3 at Amazon (full price everywhere else).

The Supreme Court has ordered an end to racially segregated schools, and folks in the predominantly white Southern town of Caxton are prepared grudgingly to comply with the ruling. But when Adam Cramer, a handsome and smooth-talking young man, arrives in town and begins to make incendiary speeches and stoke the flames of racial prejudice, the situation quickly turns deadly. Who is Cramer, and what is the sinister truth behind his real agenda? As tensions build and violence flares, it all leads to an explosive and surprising conclusion!

As compelling and relevant today as when first published, Charles Beaumont’s The Intruder (1959) has lost none of its power to shock, and modern readers will find Cramer’s bigoted rhetoric eerily familiar in light of today’s civil rights debates. Beaumont (1929-1967), better known for his Twilight Zone scripts and his weird and brilliant short fiction, earned widespread acclaim for this novel, which was adapted for a controversial 1962 film by director Roger Corman, who contributes a new introduction to this edition.

[BetterRead]

New $2.99 title from Valancourt Books at Amazon. Now through May 31.

The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume 4, edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle

The stories in this volume will take you inside the vivid dreams of a woman who can kill in her sleep; to the set of a reality show where contestants may be transformed into specimens of beauty--or into freak show monsters; to a hotel where guests are besieged by a powerful hurricane--and by something even more terrible and deadly. You will read of the bizarre and macabre adventures of a man seeking a skeleton in 1960s London as a gift for his medical student cousin--and his quest's shocking outcome. You will learn how a simple grammar mistake can lead to a terrible and untimely end for a traveler in Venice.

These are strange, sinister, and scary stories, by turns suspenseful, horrific, and darkly humorous. Featuring a lineup of rarely reprinted classic tales together with new stories destined to become future classics, this collection is a horror anthology like no other.

https://www.amazon.com/Valancourt-Bo...dp/1948405792/

[salty-horse]

This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer is $3 in the US / WW (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
Brought to my attention by this SFF180 review

Take only pictures. Leave only bones.

This trip is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, Dylan is going to document her achievement on Instagram and finally cement her place as the next rising star in rock climbing.

Seven months later, three bodies are discovered in the trees just off the highway. All are in various states of decay: one a stark, white skeleton; the second emptied of its organs; and the third a mutilated corpse with the tongue, eyes, ears, and fingers removed.

But Dylan is still missing—and no trace of her, dead or alive, has been discovered.

Were the climbers murdered? Did they succumb to cannibalism? Or are their impossible bodies the work of an even more sinister force?

This dread-inducing debut builds to a bloodcurdling climax, and will leave you shocked by the final twist.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer is $3 in the US / WW (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
Brought to my attention by this SFF180 review

Got it!

Thank you!

[salty-horse]

Break The Bodies, Haunt The Bones by Micah Dean Hicks is $2 on Amazon.com
This one was also reviewed by SFF180.

Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town’s hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to them, and people avoided those streets, locked those doors, stopped going into those rooms . . . They could hurt you. Worse, they could change you.

Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn’t want to know. Henry, Jane’s brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, there are more dead than living.

When new arrivals begin scoring precious jobs at the last factory in town, both the living and the dead are furious, sparking a conflagration. Buffeted by rage on all sides, Jane must find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills them.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Break The Bodies, Haunt The Bones by Micah Dean Hicks is $2 on Amazon.com
This one was also reviewed by SFF180.

Southern Gothic mentioned, and I HAD to have it, I tell you.

Thank you!

[ZodWallop]

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

I've had this one on my wishlist.

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.

Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

When the United States invades Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion—and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago—is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.

And unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.

[Kieran Seymour]

The £2.99 price reductions on Stephen King books here in the UK have been ongoing for the best part of eighteen months now - usually five or six titles at one time. The last few days, however, they've gone mad. There's also a few novellas from his novella collections priced at £2.99, but then the complete collections often come round at the same price.

Currently £2.99
Hearts in Atlantis
The Regulators (Richard Bachman)
Sleeping Beauties (with Owen King)
Gerald's Game
Danse Macabre (non-fiction)
Just After Sunset
The Dark Tower - 4 - Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower - 5 - Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower - 6 - Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower - 7 - The Dark Tower
The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime)
Elevation
Cujo
Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining)
Cell
From a Buick 8
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Rose Madder
Dolores Claiborne
Lisey's Story
Gwendy's Button Box (#1) (with Richard Chizmar)
Gwendy's Final Task (#3) (with Richard Chizmar)
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (novella from Different Seasons)
The Body (novella from Different Seasons)
The Langoliers (novella from Four Past Midnight)

Currently £3.49
The Talisman (with Richard Straub)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Four Past Midnight

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

The £2.99 price reductions on Stephen King books here in the UK have been ongoing for the best part of eighteen months now - usually five or six titles at one time. The last few days, however, they've gone mad. There's also a few novellas from his novella collections priced at £2.99, but then the complete collections often come round at the same price.

Currently £2.99
Hearts in Atlantis
The Regulators (Richard Bachman)
Sleeping Beauties (with Owen King)
Gerald's Game
Danse Macabre (non-fiction)
Just After Sunset
The Dark Tower - 4 - Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower - 5 - Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower - 6 - Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower - 7 - The Dark Tower
The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime)
Elevation
Cujo
Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining)
Cell
From a Buick 8
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Rose Madder
Dolores Claiborne
Lisey's Story
Gwendy's Button Box (#1) (with Richard Chizmar)
Gwendy's Final Task (#3) (with Richard Chizmar)
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (novella from Different Seasons)
The Body (novella from Different Seasons)
The Langoliers (novella from Four Past Midnight)

Currently £3.49
The Talisman (with Richard Straub)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Four Past Midnight

I'm almost of a mind to help Stephen King out financially by buying these titles once again. Especially if I can mention that his publisher has gone mad!

Mad, I tell ya!

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'm almost of a mind to help Stephen King out financially by buying these titles once again. Especially if I can mention that his publisher has gone mad!

Mad, I tell ya!

(looks at The Tommyknockers)

Did we ever doubt it?

[ZodWallop]

Wizrd by Steve Zell is $0.75 at Amazon US. This is a reprint of a '90's horror novel, still using the original cover.

Pinon Rim: more than just a hole in the ground, it's a gateway to hell.

It was a town that died with a powerful ancient secret. Now, Pinon Rim is ready to live again...and remember. Fourteen-year-old Bryce Willems is the new kid in the old boomtown. With his intense, brilliant painter father and inquisitive, budding stepsister, he's beginning to appreciate the desert charms of his new home.

Then he stumbles onto an abandoned mine called Wizrd-the resting ground of a vengeful Indian spirit that has found no rest; a presence that grants you everything you want and then takes away everything you love; a place where Bryce, the loyal son, will struggle to save his family, and must fight to stay alive.

[salty-horse]

Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell is $3 on Amazon.com

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty.

Only a few blocks away, amidst the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth. On a crusade to crush Lena's evil empire, the judge has sentenced three of her family members to death. And now she wants revenge.

One Sunday, all the Stallworths receive invitations-to their own funerals. Can even the wealth and power of the Stallworth family protect them from Lena's diabolical lust for vengeance?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell is $3 on Amazon.com

Michael McDowell was a genius at storytelling. Southern Gothic Horror to warm your arthritic bones. I urge everyone to buy everything by him!

Do it right now! (I'll be watching to make certain you do! If you don't, something warm and wet will drop from your ceiling to land on your face...something with twitching, soft-padded little feet that resembles a nose. And it likes to snuggle.)