Bestselling Horror eBooks for January 2010

by The Undead Rat on February 8, 2010

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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

  1. Cold Comforts by Tom Piccirilli
  2. Broken Shadows by Tim Waggoner
  3. Judas Goat by Greg F. Gifune
  4. The Uncertainty of Darkness by Greg F. Gifune
  5. Vessel by Greg F. Gifune
  6. The Stranger by Ronald Malfi
  7. Hero by Wrath James White and J. F. Gonzalez
  8. Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
  9. Jenna Sighed by Michael Mcbride
  10. Skin Flowers by Gina Ranalli

Cold Comforts is a chilling new horror novella and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Cold Comforts

Author: Piccirilli, Tom
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: Delirium Books

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.


Horror Mall
Broken Shadows is a chilling new horror short story collection containing fourteen stories and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Broken Shadows

Author: Waggoner, Tim
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital

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:

  • When God Opens A Door
  • Zombie Dreams
  • Portrait Of A Horror Writer
  • Waters Dark And Deep
  • Met A Pilgrim Shadow
  • Open House
  • Extern
  • ‘Til Voices Drown Us
  • Knock, Knock
  • Outside The Lines
  • Provider
  • Broken Glass And Gasoline
  • The Tongue Is The Sweetest Meat
  • Ghost In The Graveyard

Horror Mall
Judas Goat is a chilling new horror novel is now part of the Digital Download collection

Judas Goat

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novel
Publisher: Darkside Digital

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.


Horror Mall
The Uncertainty of Darkness is a chilling new horror chapbook containing three horror short stories and is now part of the Digital Download collection

The Uncertainty of Darkness

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Chapbook
Publisher: Darkside Digital

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:

  • Creep
  • Snow Angels
  • The Uncertainty of Darkness

Horror Mall
Vessel is a chilling new horror chapbook containing three horror short stories and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Vessel

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Chapbook
Publisher: Darkside Digital

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:

  • Restoration
  • Past Tense
  • Vessel

Horror Mall
The Stranger is a chilling new novella in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

The Stranger

Author: Malfi, Ronald
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: Delirium Books

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 . . .


Horror Mall
Hero is a chilling new horror novella and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Hero

Author: White, Wrath James and Gonzalez, J. F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: Bloodletting Books

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.


Horror Mall
Monstrous Affections is a chilling new horror short story collection and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Monstrous Affections

Author: Nickle, David
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

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:

  • Introduction: The Geniality of Monsters by Michael Rowe
  • The Sloan Men
  • Janie and the Wind
  • Night of the Tar Baby
  • Other People’s Kids
  • The Mayor Will Make a Brief Statement and Then Take Questions
  • The Pit-Heads
  • Slide Trombone
  • The Inevitability of Earth
  • Swamp Witch and the Tea-Drinking Man
  • The Delilah Party
  • Fly in Your Eye
  • Polyphemus’ Cave
  • The Webley

Horror Mall
Jenna Sighed is a chilling new horror novella and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Jenna Sighed

Author: McBride, Michael
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: Darkside Digital

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
— Albert Einstein

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.


Horror Mall
Skin Flowers is a chilling new horror novella and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Skin Flowers

Author: Ranalli, Gina
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: Cargo Cult Press

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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The Third Dark Dream

by The Undead Rat on February 7, 2010

Welcome to the final segment of the first weekend spotlight featuring African American horror authors. This weekend is inspired by the Dark Dreams anthologies edited by Brandon Massey.

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Whispers in the Night the third Dark Dreams Anthology is a collection of horror short stories by African American writers and edited by Brandon Massey

Whispers in the Night (A Dark Dreams Anthology #3)

Editor: Massey, Brandon
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 304pp.
Pub. Date: July 1, 2007
Publisher: Dafina/Kensington

Beyond Your Darkest Dreams —
From the deceptive safety of your very own bed to the seeming stillness of country roads and the bustle of urban streets, your darkest realities reveal themselves as you enter hidden realms, crossing the threshold into one man’s tortured mind — a mind haunted by the mocking, derisive voices of his youth.

Quench your insatiable thirst for terror at a bar where the drinks are abominable and the patrons never leave. Relive the infamous, harrowing Middle Passage that brought millions of African slaves to America, but this time with a spellbinding twist. . .

Lie Your Deepest Fears —
From scenes of pulsating ecstasy to unspeakable tragedy, surrender yourself to a world inhabited by bizarre sex cults and violent gangs. Meet the malevolent entities that feed on human misery in the midst of a hurricane’s wrath. Endure a sweltering summer on a swamp inhabited by mischievous spirits intent on possessing the most innocent within their slimy grasp.

Submit to the tantalizing temptation and the irresistible pull of the unknown in eighteen stories that will illuminate the horrors within — and without. And whatever you do, don’t turn off the lights.

Table of Contents:

  • Summer by Tananarive Due
  • Scab by Wrath James White
  • And Death Rode with Him by Anthony Beal
  • Are You My Daddy? by Lexi Davis
  • To Get Bread and Butter by Randy Walker
  • Dream Girl by Dameon Edwards
  • My Sister’s Keeper by Chesya Burke
  • The Wasp by Robert Fleming
  • Hell Is For Children by Rickey Windell George
  • Flight by Lawana James-Holland
  • Hadley Shimmerhorn: American Icon by Michael Boatman
  • Nurse’s Requiem by Maurice Broaddus
  • WET PAIN by Terence Taylor
  • The Taken by Tenea Johnson
  • Mr. Bones by Christopher Chambers
  • Rip Crew by B. Gordon Doyle
  • Power and Purpose by L. R. Giles
  • The Love of a Zombie is Everlasting by Tish Jackson
  • Ghostwriter by Brandon Massey
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The Second Dark Dream

February 6, 2010

Welcome to the first weekend spotlight featuring African American horror authors. This weekend is inspired by the Dark Dreams anthologies edited by Brandon Massey. Today’s anthology is the second in a series of three collections by African American horror authors.

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The First Dark Dream

February 5, 2010

Welcome to the first weekend spotlight featuring African American horror authors. This weekend is inspired by the Dark Dreams anthologies edited by Brandon Massey. Today’s anthology is the first in a series of three collections.

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African-American Horror Author Book List

February 3, 2010

This is the Best African-American Horror Author Book List. Despite that, it is a work in progress. I’m sure there are more people out there writing horror who are of African American heritage than I have listed here.

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Horror and the National African American Read-In

February 1, 2010

February has traditionally been known as Black History Month and as part of that month of exploration and celebration, the Black Caucus of NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) and the full body of the NCTE itself have created The National African American Read-In.

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