Books tagged: classic horror

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Just Before Dark    by Jack MacLane
Price: $2.99 USD. 74650 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on June 8, 2010. .

You never know what you might find in a junkyard, especially when your uncle isn’t the kindly old gentleman you think he is. He’s actually the kind of man who would put someone into a car that’s about to be run through the crusher, just to get rid of him. Frank Castella isn’t so easy to get rid of. His spirit is back, and a lot of people are going to die.
The Kill    by Alan Peter Ryan
Price: $4.99 USD. 83370 words. Published by Bob Booth on September 23, 2010. .

Alan Peter Ryan's novel, published in 1982, is the story of a young couple who flee the city to rural Deacons Kill in the Catskills. Their home becomes the target of an invisible evil that lives in the nearby wood. They join with their neighbors to confront the monster. A fine example by a World Fantasy Award-winning author of a theme explored extensively by Golden Age (70s & 80s) horror writers.
The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology    by Andrew Barger
Price: $5.58 USD. 84620 words. Published on November 26, 2010. .

Award winning finalist in the Next Generation Book Awards, Andrew Barger read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He even includes background for each of the stories, author photos and provides a list of stories read. Download today
The Black Cat and the Ghoul (Coscom Entertainment Monster Novella Series)    by Keith Gouveia
Price: $4.99 USD. 31730 words. Published by Coscom Entertainment on January 11, 2011. .

After killing his wife, John Mohr is sentenced to die. But when an unlikely visitor turns into a reluctant partner, John embraces the monster within and becomes the underworld’s instrument of death. Doomed to walk the earth as an undead aberration with an insatiable hunger, John must send souls to Hell in his place or face its wrath. A continuation of Edgar Allan's Poe's story, "The Black Cat."
Shadow Games    by Ed Gorman
Price: $2.99 USD. 57500 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on August 13, 2011. .

Cobey Daniels had it all. He was rich, he was young, and he was the hottest star in the country. Then there was that messy business with the teenage girl...and it all went to hell for Cobey. But that was a few years ago. Now Cobey's pulled his life together again, they're letting him out of the hospital, and he's ready for his big comeback. But the past is still out there, waiting for him.
Stolen Souls    by Jeffrey  Sackett
Price: $2.99 USD. 129180 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on September 27, 2011. .

The Mummy's Curse For centuries they slept, buried in the dust of ancient Egypt, Lost, but never totally forgotten...Now the seven caskets have come to Greenfield, a peaceful college town in upstate New York...where a young museum curator thinks she has made the acquisition of a lifetime...where the horror is about to begin.
Metamorphosis In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)    by BookCaps 
Price: $2.99 USD. 87320 words. Published on January 13, 2012. .

A business man wakes up and discovers he has been turned into a cockroach of sorts! Beginnings don't get much better then that! Unfortunately, a hundred years has made most translations of Kafka's classic work feel a bit dated. BookCaps can help with this fresh translation for the modern reader.
The Defeat    by Jay M Horne
Price: $0.99 USD. 2850 words. Published on May 12, 2012. .

Sarah and Bill are in for a well earned vacation. But when their friend Rich's speedboat wrecks on a coral reef, they find themselves stranded on a desert island. The island they wash up on, is inhabited by some dreadful creatures. Will they be found? A story created in the mind of a 10yo is retold here for the first time. Classic bedtime horror.