Bestselling Horror eBooks for August 2010

by The Undead Rat on September 1, 2010

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Today we feature the list of August 2010 digital bestsellers at the Horror Mall.

Horror Mall’s Bestselling eBooks for August 2010

  1. Scabs by Wrath James White
  2. The Corporation by J. F. Gonzalez
  3. Immun3 by Michael Mcbride
  4. Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
  5. AAAIIIEEE!!! by Jeffrey Thomas
  6. Screaming To Get Out by J. F. Gonzalez
  7. Lowland Rider by Chet Williamson
  8. Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk
  9. Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson
  10. Major Karnage by Gord Zajac

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Wrath James White's Scabs is a chilling collection of horror short stories in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

Scabs

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital

A man haunted by the children that teased him when he was young destroys anyone who tries to love him.

An OBGYN has a religious conversion that leads to an act of terrorism.

A promiscuous man tries desperately to hold onto a woman.

A former drug dealer runs from the demons of his past.

The ghost of a former classmate visits the one boy who was kind to her when she was alive.

The daughter of a mafia hit man uses her skills of persuasion to get a former lover to acknowledge his son.

These are tales of pain and regret, revenge and redemption. Blending the emotional with the extreme, the perverse with the profound, the violent and visceral with the philosophical and the socio-political, these stories epitomize the controversial style that has made Wrath James White a genre favorite.

Horror Mall
The Corporation by J. F. Gonzalez is a horror novel about the dangers of corporate life a Morning Star publication in ebook format

The Corporation

Author: Gonzalez, J. F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story
Publisher: Morning Star

Michelle Dowling found her dream job. The offer on her desk from Corporate Financial Consultants included a high five figure salary, generous benefits and cushy perks. Finally, after a escaping the psychological abuse of an emotionally cold mother and a series of dead-end jobs she could start planning a future with her fiance, Donald.

However, Michelle forgot the cardinal rule for any job offer; always read the fine print. She really should have gotten more detail about her overtime hours, company policies, and exactly what they meant when they said “Welcome to the Corporate Financial family.”

Michelle isn’t afraid of hard work. She’s a dedicated employee, the kind any manager would want for his firm. But this Corporation requires much more than just dedication . . .

Horror Mall
Immun3 is a horror novella about wholesale death and destruction by Michael McBride

Immun3

Author: McBride, Michael
Cover Artist: Zach McCain
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub.: June 2010 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved. An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King. The Gulf War is over. Nirvana releases the album Nevermind. The Soviet Union collapses.

The year is 1991, and the world is changing.

For Landon Crane, the future couldn’t look brighter. He’s madly in love with a beautiful girl who’ll be leaving with him for college in just over a month. The small mountain town of Mineral Springs will be hosting the largest Independence Day celebration in its history to welcome home war hero Travis James, highlighting the ultimate summer of freedom.

The year is 1991, and nothing will ever be the same.

Travis has returned with more than the Medal of Honor. He’s brought something else with him, something capable of inflicting unimaginable pain and suffering. Before the night is through, Landon and the rest of the residents of Mineral Springs will be forced to answer the most terrifying question of all.

Who among them will survive?

Immun3 is a mini-hardcover (4.5 inches by 6.25 inches) novella side-sewn with a graphic wraparound cover on the boards.

Horror Mall
Jeffrey Thomas's Punktown is a chilling collection of horror short stories in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

Punktown

Author: Thomas, Jeffrey
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital

In the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows . . .

Table of Contents:

  • The Reflections of Ghosts
  • Pink Pills
  • The Flaying Season
  • Union Dick
  • Wakizashi
  • Dissecting the Soul
  • Precious Metal
  • Sisters of No Mercy
  • Heart for Heart’s Sake
  • The Ballad Of Moosecock Lip
  • Face
  • The Pressman
  • The Palace Of Nothingness
  • The Rusted Gates Of Heaven
  • Immolation
  • Unlimited Daylight
  • The Library of Sorrows
  • Nom de Guerre
  • The Color Shrain

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Jeffrey Thomas's AAAIIIEEE!!! is a chilling collection of horror short stories in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

AAAIIIEEE!!!

Author: Thomas, Jeffrey
Cover Art: Travis Anthony Soumis
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital

From subtle stories of ghosts and encroaching madness to extreme tales of erotic and visceral terror, this collection’s contents span the breadth of the horror spectrum.

In these pages one will encounter: a mysterious channel on a hospital room’s television . . . a concentration camp where the dead may seek retribution . . . a music star’s unearthly and distasteful approach to fame . . . a woman in love with a dangerous fallen angel . . . the ghost of an insane parent resurrected by an otherworldly force.

Whether one’s appetite runs from the traditional to the experimental, AAAIIIEEE!!! has a dark confection for every trick or treat bag.

Table of Contents:

  • Rat King
  • Chapel
  • The Yellow House
  • Fallen
  • Mrs. Weekes
  • Psychometric Idol
  • Black Walls
  • JohnEmpathy
  • Mass Production
  • John Sadness
  • Thunderheads
  • Pale Fruit
  • Lost Alleys
  • The Red Spectacles
  • Gun Metal Blue
  • The Sister
  • Hapi Birthday
  • Family Matter
  • Dust
  • Ouroborus
Horror Mall
Screaming to Get Out by J. F. Gonzalez is a chilling new horror short story in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

Screaming to Get Out

Author: Gonzalez, J. F.
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story
Publisher: Morning Star

Jesse has a new, cushy job as a Business Intelligence Analyst at a large corporation. The pay is great, the benefits are generous.

But it’s unlike any white-collar job he’s ever had.

His first clue that something isn’t right comes when he shows up to work one morning and realizes his co-workers never left the day before. His supervisor, Donald, berates him for not staying overnight like everybody else. You were hired as a Business Intelligence Analyst . . . it is what we pay you to do and it is what you are . . .

With those chilling words from Donald, the message is clear: you have no life outside of your job. Get used to it.

When Donald performs an act of psychological cruelty to the department secretary during a department meeting, Jesse realizes he cannot work for this company.

But quitting his job is the least of his problems because something far more dark and evil is happening than he could ever imagine . . .


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Lowland Rider is a horror novel of homelessness and great evil by Chet Williamson and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Lowland Rider

Author: Williamson, Chet
Cover Art: Neil Jackson
Format: Digital Audio Book MP3
Time: 7 hrs. 22 mins.
Type: Horror Novel
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Macabre Ink Digital
Original Pub: August 1988 (Mass Market Paperback — Tom Doherty Assoc.)

Jesse Gordon, driven to a shocking murder by the killing of his wife and infant daughter, condemns himself to life underground in the New York City subway system.

Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which must be bought by a price far greater than death . . .

Publisher’s Note:
Free e-Book Included With Purchase!

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Nexus: Ascension is an original horror novel ebook by Robert Boyczuk

Nexus: Ascension

Author: Boyczuk, Robert
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novel
Pub. Date: August 15, 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

After returning from a thirty-year trade mission, the crew of the Ea wake from cryonic suspension to find that their home world, Bh’Haret, is dead.

“Screamer” satellites have been strung around their planet warning of a plague.

A scan of the surface of Bh’Haret reveals no trace of human life — only crumbling cities. Their fuel and other supplies nearly exhausted, the crew has little choice but to make planet fall on Bh’Haret, infected with a virulent and deadly disease.

In a desperate scramble to save themselves, the crew members of the Ea must each, in his or her own way, come to terms with the death of their world — and try to rekindle a belief in the possibility of life.

Horror Mall
Ash Wednesday is a horror novel of ghosts and hidden guilt by Chet Williamson and is now part of the Digital Download collection

Ash Wednesday

Author: Williamson, Chet
Cover Art: Neil Jackson
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novel
Pub. Date: July 14, 2010
Publisher: Macabre Ink Digital
Original Pub: February 1987 (Hardcover — Tor)

Nominated for the 1987 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel

In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared.

These aren’t ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments — the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don’t move, and they don’t speak.

Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone.

Murders are revealed, rapes and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage.

Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible.

As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder.

Author’s Note:
Chet Williamson wrote in his blog: “This edition also contains the final chapter that was edited out of the first edition, so is complete for the first time.”

Horror Mall
Major Karnage is a horror novel ebook about life after war by Gord Zajac

Major Karnage

Author: Zajac, Gord
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novel
Pub. Date: August 15, 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

Don’t talk to him about the war!!!!

It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies.

Karnage and his troopers have been deemed unfit to live in normal society. Like a bit of old chewing gum stuck under a coffee table, the world has left The War and its scarred, unstable veterans behind.

The military has been disbanded and World Peace has descended upon the Earth. Its inhabitants live happy, profitable lives under the global rule of the benevolent Dabney Corporation. All is tea and roses in this new, sanitized world . . .

Until a terrifying threat from beyond the stars rears its squiggly head!

An invading armada of aliens threatens to destroy the Earth, and it’s up to Major Karnage to stop them — as long as he doesn’t accidentally blow his own head off first.

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August’s Book Cover Spotlight: The Condemned

by The Undead Rat on August 30, 2010

This entry is part 8 in the series Monthly Book Cover Spotlight: 2010

This month’s Book Cover Spotlight falls on a book by an author who was, at the time I first saw it, unknown to me. The painting on the cover, however, immediately caught my attention.

The Condemned by David Jack Bell has never fallen off my radar since. The cover art, which I think is also titled “The Comdemned” was painted by Dave Kendall.

The Condemned is a horror novel in the days of war in a city where the dead walk and eat by David Jack Bell

David’s website is RustyBaby.com: Dave Kendall Illustration. He has a gallery with book cover art, role-playing game illustrations, card game images and comic book pages — some of which is for sale.

For a long time I couldn’t put my finger on what it was about the painting which drew me. Part of it was the color scheme — I’m always fascinated by horror art which doesn’t use black as a major color. The yellows and oranges create a striking overcast day.

The elements of this painting that keep drawing my eye:

  • The creature on the car with arms just a little too long to be human is the first thing that caught my eye.
  • Junked cars, rusted, damaged from collision and time, are not only important to the story itself but convey a sense of a long abandoned city better than any other image I’ve ever seen.
  • The crumbling buildings and dust spewing through the streets in the background lock down that sense of desertion.

The art did what all great cover art should do — it attracted my attention and stuck in my mind long after I’d seen the book online.

The Condemned is a horror novel in the days of war in a city where the dead walk and eat by David Jack Bell

The Condemned

Author: Bell, David Jack
Book Cover: Dave Kendall
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 224pp.
Pub. Date: January 8, 2008
Publisher: Delirium Books

The world is at war . . . the city is dying . . . and those left for dead within its walls have awakened . . .

A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined by the army and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Jett Dormer works for the government. During the day he and his partner Vince drive a wrecker, collecting abandoned cars from the city’s dying core, scrap metal to feed the nation’s raging war machine. They finish their work before nightfall and return to home base outside the city and then to their wives and families. Until the day Jett and Vince are overrun by a horde of City People, and only Jett makes it out.

Plagued by nightmares and wracked with guilt for having left his best friend behind, Jett returns to work, hoping to provide for his family. But his new partner, a wounded veteran known only as the Kid, won’t let Jett forget what happened to Vince. And he won’t let Jett forget that Vince might not be entirely dead.

You’re never going to feel right, or be right, as long as he’s out there . . .

Soon Jett and the Kid are on a mission to find Vince and bring whatever’s left of him home. But as their city raids grow bloodier, Jett finds himself increasingly under the mysterious influence of his new partner. And just as his murderous rage for the City People grows nearly out of control, he realizes things may not be exactly as they appear. The night, and those who control it — the City People — hold many secrets. Secrets that might just set Jett free . . . or destroy him and everything he holds dear.

Amazon.com January 2008 (Trade Paperback — Delirium Books)
Barnes and Noble January 2008 (Trade Paperback — Delirium Books)
Horror Mall January 2008 (Trade Paperback — Delirium Books)
Horror Mall January 2008 (eBook — Darkside Digital)

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