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Today we feature the list of January 2010 digital bestsellers at the Horror Mall.
I really enjoy Horror Mall eBooks because many titles are digital reprints of out-of-print or expensive-to-purchase books like Tim Waggoner’s short story collection Broken Shadows, or Wrath James White and J. F. Gonzalez’s distrubing Hero which is still available in the very expensive hardcover format or the not quite so dear hardcover format.
As you can see, ebooks really can make a lot of financial sense.
Horror Mall’s Bestselling eBooks for December 2009
- Cold Comforts by Tom Piccirilli
- Broken Shadows by Tim Waggoner
- Judas Goat by Greg F. Gifune
- The Uncertainty of Darkness by Greg F. Gifune
- Vessel by Greg F. Gifune
- The Stranger by Ronald Malfi
- Hero by Wrath James White and J. F. Gonzalez
- Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
- Jenna Sighed by Michael Mcbride
- Skin Flowers by Gina Ranalli
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Cold ComfortsAuthor: Piccirilli, Tom |
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After years toiling in obscurity, Thomas, a crime fiction author, is finally able to leave personal tragedy and poverty behind. A Hollywood benefactor has offered him a chance at success and celebrity. But deadly trouble looms when a beautiful woman comes between them. And Thomas discovers that the pain that drives him and ghosts haunting him aren’t content with staying in the past, but begin to appear in the night at every turn. Incapable of distinguishing the dead from the living, his life from fantasy, Thomas tries to navigate his way through a bloodstained landscape of lust and murder. |
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Broken ShadowsAuthor: Waggoner, Tim |
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Fissures appear in the darkness. Shadows break, collapse, and crumble away to nothing, revealing that they are far more than the mere absence of light. Shadows are our friends. Shadows protect us. Because what lies behind the darkness is so much worse . . . Fourteen stories by the author of Like Death, Pandora Drive, and Darkness Wakes. This is the ebook version of the ultra-rare Delirium X-Series collection which only had a 100 copy print run and is now almost impossible to get. Table of Contents:
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Judas GoatAuthor: Gifune, Greg F. |
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Who is the Judas Goat? It had been twenty years since Lenny Cates had seen or heard from his old college flame Sheena. Theirs had been a brief and tumultuous relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has died in a freak accident and has left her entire estate to him, he feels compelled to investigate the last days leading to her untimely death. As Lenny arrives in town to settle her affairs, he begins to dig deeper into Sheena’s life and learns her final days were cast in shadows of loneliness, depression and experiments in black magic. Soon, Lenny will discover that Sheena’s death has awakened something insatiably demonic and old as mankind, something lying in wait and growing stronger in a quiet little town where the horrors of the past never truly die, pain is eternal, and nothing is as it seems. Look closer . . . sometimes evil hides in plain sight. |
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The Uncertainty of DarknessAuthor: Gifune, Greg F. |
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These three short stories were originally published in the very hard-to-find hardcover edition of Heretics (see #2 in the Digital Bestseller List for December 2009). Table of Contents:
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VesselAuthor: Gifune, Greg F. |
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Three short stories by “One of the best writers of his generation” as stated by both the Roswell Literary Review and horror author Brian Keene. These three short stories were originally published in the very hard-to-find hardcover edition of Heretics (see #2 in the Digital Bestseller List for December 2009). Table of Contents:
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The StrangerAuthor: Malfi, Ronald |
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It happened outside a motel in rural Florida . . . A strange thing, a peculiar thing. At first, David thought it was simply a mistake — the stranger who sat behind the wheel of David’s own car in the parking lot of the roadside motel. Had the man gotten into the wrong car? Was he lost? Hurt? But when the doors are locked from the inside and a gun is set on the dashboard, David realizes this was no mistake. And that was when the insanity started . . . |
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HeroAuthor: White, Wrath James and Gonzalez, J. F. |
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Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need. But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle’s in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of “Physical Therapy” consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture. And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life. This is #6 in Bloodletting Books novella series. |
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Monstrous AffectionsAuthor: Nickle, David |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be. Can it be love? Bram Stoker Award-winning author David Nickle takes multiple stabs at the question in his first collection of short fiction, Monstrous Affections. Three stories are published here for the first time. Others have appeared in places like Cemetery Dance, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Queer Fear 2, and the Northern Frights series. Monstrous Affections also features an introduction by award-winning editor, author and journalist Michael Rowe. Table of Contents:
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Jenna SighedAuthor: McBride, Michael |
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Jenna Wallace, a research assistant for Pembroke-Smith, the world’s leading pharmaceutical conglomerate, is part of a top-secret team working on a cure for one of the most nefarious contagions the planet has ever known. Through the genetic alteration of their test subjects, they have created mutated capable of killing even the most virulent strains within the host. These modified white blood cells are more than simply resistant to the pathogen. They aggressively seek out foreign microbes and destroy them. But there are side-effects. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. |
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Skin FlowersAuthor: Ranalli, Gina |
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Digital Chapbook #1 from Cargo Cult Press. Tony Croft has always hated his grandmother’s folksy name for the mushrooms that periodically popped up in his garden, the fleshy fungus threatening the serene beauty he worked so hard to maintain. Gardening is one of Tony’s passions. Meticulous by nature, he enjoys the pattern. Dig. Plant. Bury. And his other passion? He burys that, too. Skin Flowers is the story of what happens when Tony Croft’s carefully arranged passions intersect. |
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