(Part 2) Best occult fiction books according to redditors
We found 2,275 Reddit comments discussing the best occult fiction books. We ranked the 521 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
A review of Dragonoak by Sam Farren:
>Book is not for the heterosexual traditionalist. Plot is good, but book is ruined with the homosexual idealism. Not for the average reader..
As someone who had been searching tirelessly for a phrase to describe what I most craved at the time, it was like God reached down and handed me "homosexual idealism" on a platter.
list of linked fictions in order posted repeats omitted, see my other comments for what EY said about them.
Dungeon Keeper Ami by Pusakuronu As a .docx
Mandragora (HP)
To The Stars (Madoka)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Betrayal (MLP)
Earthfic
Unequally Rational and Emotional(Negima/damn near everything)
The Missing Risk Premium (Non-Fic)
Mahou Sensei Negima manga
Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (HP/DnD)
Naruto: Game of the Year Edition(Naruto)
Big Human on Campus(Ranma/RosarioxVampire)
Friendship is Optimal (MLP)
Myou’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me(MLP)
Prince of the Dark Kingdom (HP)
Fallout Equestria (MLP)
Time Braid(Naruto)
Hybrid Theroy(Mega Crossover)
Luminosity (Twilight)
[Discworld] (http://i.imgur.com/kvqoC1h.jpg)
The Best Night Ever(MLP)
Imperfect Metamorphosis(Touhou)
Sanctum
Friendship is Optimal: Caelum est Conterrens(MLP)
Tales of Mu
Black Cloaks, Red Clouds (Naruto)
Dirty Old Men(Naruto)
The Eyre Affair (first novel in the Thursday Next series)
Postnuptial Disagreements(F/SN / Sekirei)
Saga of Soul
Murasakiiro no Qualia
NGE: Nobody Dies: The Trials of Kirima Harasami(Eva)
Love Lockdown(Naruto)
Worm
MLP Loops(MLP)
City of Angles
The Last Christmas
Branches on the Tree of Time(Terminator)
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Lord Voldemort(HP)
Emperor of Zero(Familiar of Zero/Napoleon)
Cenotaph(Worm)
Memoirs of a Human Flashlight(Worm/Exalted)
She Who Skitters in Darkness(Worm/Exalted)
Goblin Queen(Worm/Exalted)
Starry Eyes(Worm/Lovecraft)
Tale of Transmigration(Worm)
Bug on a Wire.(Worm)
Sunshine
Toasterverse(Avengers)
Back Again(LOTR)
Carpetbaggers(Narnia)
A Bluer Shade of White (Frozen)
Metropolitan Man(Superman)
Ra
Homestuck
In Fire Forged(Naruto)
Right Moments(Ranma)
Hitherby Dragons
Nice Dragons Finish Last
The Shadow of What Was Lost
The Unwelcome Warlock
Path of the King (F/SN)
Gate! Thus the JSDF Fought There
Weaver Nine(Worm)
https://www.fanfiction.net/community/Rational-stories/117575/99/4/1/0/0/0/0/
https://www.reddit.com/r/rational
Title: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Ebook cost: $9.43 USD
Word count: 215k
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis: A group of vanity publishers, increasingly exasperated by absurd conspiracy theories they're presented with on a daily basis, decide to entertain themselves by inventing a conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. Events go downhill from here.
Why /r/rational would like it: This book could be considered a self-aware commentary on conspiracy theories, and deconstruction of conspiracy fiction. By its very nature, it shows a pretty rational approach to its themes.
One may also find it reminiscent of Unsong (or vice versa): it's full of clever wordplay and references to obscure occult topics, combining that with several surprisingly modern ideas.
No content warnings apply.
He already sold the story in book form https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spire-Woods-Tony-Lunedi/dp/1521132518
So I assume it's more accurate to say Amblin bought the book rights, rather than bought a story off of reddit
Vin from Mistborn fits some, but not all, of your criteria. She's more of a rogue, but still a powerful fighter, especially late in the series.
Winter Ihernglass is pretty much perfect; she's a female soldier in the Shadow Campaigns, starting with The Thousand Names.
Velas Jaldin in my own Stealing Sorcery is the archetype you're looking for, but my books are very high magic, so I'm not sure if that's what you'd want. It's not Tolkienesque - they're more JRPGish.
Stealing Sorcery is the second book in the series, so you might want to read the first book first. Lydia in the first book, Forging Divinity, is a competent fighter, but she's more of a defensive magic/sword fighting hybrid. Velas in the second book is much more of a front line bash your face in type, which is what I think you want. (They're both pictured on the covers of their respective books if you want to take a look; the art is pretty indicative of their style.)
[Cradle]
[Mother of Learning]
[Sufficiently Advanced Magic]
[Street Cultivation]
[The Land]
[The Divine Dungeon]
[The Dark Herbalist]
[Ascend Online]
[The Way of the Shaman]
[The Wheel of Time] (Low Quality)
[I Shall Seal the Heavens]
[A Will Eternal]
[Coiling Dragon]
[Patrick Rothfuss] (Author)
[The Thousand Li]
[Savage Divinity] (Low Quality)
[The Dao of Magic]
[Dante's Immortality]
[Forge of Destiny]
[Veilverse]
[Way of the Immortals]
[Sundered Soul]
[Edge of Eons]
[Soulship]
[The Wandering Inn]
[Delvers LLC]
[Dodge Tank]
[World Tree Online]
[Life Reset]
[Viridian Gate Online]
[The Crafting of Chess]
[Reverend Insanity]
[I Eat Tomatoes] (Author)
[Er Gen] (Author)
[The King's Avatar]
[Against the Gods]
[Martial World]
[Dragon Heart]
[Purple Days]
"The New Fish" by /u/theworldisgrim is an awesome story. I heard it narrated on the NoSleep Podcast and then picked up Tripping Over Twilight by him as well. That book is an excellent read if you are looking for more stories in the same vein as The New Fish.
Still though, I think Grim's best work, at least what has stuck with me for long after I read it, was 99 Brief Scenes from the End of the World.
Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I'm pretty tired of the elves, dwarves, orcs, and humans motif. To me, the term "fantasy" means "realms of the utter fantastic." So by comparison to that, Tolkien-esque worlds feel utterly mundane and don't hold my interest without a major kick in the premise pants.
Similarly, I'm tired of the knee-deep swamps of vampire and werewolf cultures in urban fantasy. That's what appealed to me about S.A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree, or Christopher Ruz's Rust. Magical gunslingers fighting steam-powered mechs? Cool. An afterlife full of Lovecraftian nightmares? Awesome. Anything but more of the quasi-medieval hick-with-powers yarn.
Paradoxically, it seems to me that the very authors given greatest licence to explore the bizarre seem the most trapped by the history of what has come before. Myself included. Once I've finished my current series (later this year) my next project is going to kick the stops out of convention and hit the world with something really unusual. Or at least, I hope it will. I'm still working on the details.
PSA:
If you haven't read it yet, Game of Thrones is down to $2.99 on Kindle... that's the lowest I've ever seen!
EDIT: Also great prices on:
The Princess Bride -- $2.99
and
Discovery of Witches -- $2.99
Nathan Thompson's SoulShip has an interesting combination of cultivation, magic, and technology. "Mana" is one of the things cultivated and can also be used to cast spells.
The book is otherwise quite excellent.
Here you go, boss. This should help you out. It's an amazingly written book to boot.
http://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-ebook/dp/B003WUYPI8/
Horror author here: I'm self-pubbing a small town horror series called Rust that's been pretty well received. It's a mystery/body horror saga, and I'm pumping out book 4 as we speak.
u/authorsahunt is also one to watch out for - his book Malus Domestica is a scorcher.
I see what you did there ^
Further brutality can be found here
I wrote a trilogy of novels called Cockfighter's Ghost, about a mad scientist who re-engineered an old Egyptian artifact to propel one's soul into alternate dimensions. He used a certain Coonawara Sauvignon to power it - a specific wine called Cockfighter's Ghost. Anyway, the inventor got stranded, ran out of wine, and couldn't make it back, so his astral form enlisted his best friend, Jack (the reincarnation of Jack Kerouac, but a hermaphrodite addicted to painkillers and wine) to travel across the dimensions and find him another bottle. It jumps through dimensions, up to the 11th, goes back to 3000BC Egypt and there's a giant zeppelin called Spirit of New Brunswick. Arthur Rimbaud and Verlaine also make brief cameos. It was really fun to write, though I haven't sold a single copy since I launched it on Amazon.
The best book I read last year was Long Division by Kiese Laymon. It's a funny/sad book with time travel and a mystery. A young man becomes a viral sensation after an academic competition goes awry. Searching for a girl lost in the town where he is hiding out while waiting for the sensation to die down, he discovers a wormhole to the past. It's $10 for Kindle on Amazon, but I believe I read it via my local public library's ebook lending on Overdrive. http://www.amazon.com/Long-Division-Kiese-Laymon/dp/1932841725/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426713319&sr=8-1&keywords=long+division
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes was a fun read. The writing isn't bad, it's a mystery, and there is some timeline flipping. Another one that is available on Overdrive, if your library uses it. $9.99 for kindle. http://www.amazon.com/Shining-Girls-Novel-Lauren-Beukes/dp/0316216860/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426713345&sr=8-1&keywords=the+shining+girls
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander is a mystery of sorts that is set in Argentina during the Dirty War. It is comical, sad and surreal, the story of a couple oppressed by their government, trying to save their son. $9.99 for Kindle. the ministry of special cases
The Dinner by Hermann Koch was recommended to me by someone who said it was like Gone Girl but for men. I'm not sure what that means, but it was a fast read, and relatively enjoyable. $4.99 for Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/Dinner-Herman-Koch/dp/0385346859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426713379&sr=8-1&keywords=the+dinner
The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan is beautifully crafted and suspenseful. A Malaysian woman who devoted her career to trying Japanese WW2 criminals retires and returns to the estate where she convalesced from her time in a Japanese work camp during the war and learned the art of Japanese gardening under the tutelage of the exiled head gardener of the Emperor of Japan. The story is told largely through flashback and reveals a harrowing story of survival and a fantastic mystery surrounding her host/teacher at the estate. My synoposis makes it sound boring, but I couldn't put it down. $8.63 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Evening-Mists-Tan-Twan/dp/1602861803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426713396&sr=8-1&keywords=the+garden+of+the+evening+mist
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I'm ashamed to admit that's what I keep saying about your book... it stares at me from my kindle, haunting me.
So I'll pimp it a little bit for you, instead.
American Elsewhere has something of that not-quite-normal feeling.
Hayong, Bigsp00k, Lifeisstrangemetoo, and I just published an anthology last week. It'll be free until 11/14 if you want to check it out ;)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0771RBLW2
It's not much worse than twilight. I didn't read it, but from what I heard, there's a child that grows up physically real fast that one of the vampires has sex with even though it's mentally only like 11.
Sure there's death, slightly homoerotic overtones, and from books 5 it kind of goes Christian (Lestat goes to hell and heaven).
But anything to wash away twilight right?
Edit; Another vampire book you may consider as alternatives or with The Vampire Chronicles;
Sunshine by Robin Mckinley. A witch teams up with a vampire.
You might like this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Scenes-From-World-ebook/dp/B0084X9XZI
Amazon links for all the books announced for translation–nothing beyond Nisemonogatari has been confirmed.
Kizumonogatari (Released)
Bakemonogatari 1 (Released)
Bakemonogatari 2 (February 28th)
Bakemonogatari 3 (April 25th)
Nisemonogatari 1 (June 27th)
Nisemonogatari 2 (August 22nd)
I go to Lost River State Park, WV and stay in one if their cabins. I bring this with me to put my stuff in, but I might bring this too, so I have something to read. I bring the husband with me.
Thanks for the contest. I could use a vacation!
Crowley's book is not an easy starting point, more of a reference work. As usual, Lon Milo Duquette offers a much easier starting point.
But it is also worth keeping in mind that "the occult" isn't really a thing. There are plenty of hidden things out there, and there are plenty of techniques for making sense and nonsense of the clues that may or may not point there. But there isn't a grand hidden conspiracy of great knowledgable masters who communicate via arcane symbols and snatch aircraft out of the sky.
Or is there?
Under the Dome (Yeah, that serie) was written by Stephen King and it's such a unique book. Totally recommend it!
The serial killer in The Shining Girls originates back in the 1920s.
Christopher Ruz's Rust horror series is goddamned phenomenal. He lists body-horror master Cronenberg and David Lynch as his direct influences.
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The book focuses on a 20s era thug who discovers a time-traveling house and jumps through decades, killing women. The other main character is a girl who survives one of the killers attacks and begins tracking him through history. The perspective shifts each chapter and, due to the time travelling, gives the reader several glimpses of historical Chicago.
Worst: Discovery of Witches. I think part of the reason I was so appalled by this book was it's heavy marketing and high ratings on Amazon (4.5 stars). It's shit. The protagonist is this super-smart tenured professor at Oxford that gets her hands on a legendary book that every supernatural wants for some reason. She also discovers that she is an epically powerful witch. And then she meets a highly attractive vampire man and the protagonist is replaced with an Adult Bella Swan personality (= empty shell personality). They fall instantly in love and from there on he just carries her around physically, they drink wine and go to vampire yoga. Maybe something happens plotwise afterwards, but after 300 pages of nothing I gave up halfway through the book.
As for the best book. There is one book I keep buying over and over, as I always lose my copy: "Good Omens" by T. Pratchett and N. Gaiman.
Tony published Spire in paperback.
Spire on Amazon
There are a bunch of collections out there that have most, if not all, of his work. Because Lovecraft is public domain there is a ton of newer collections as well.
edit - Just noticed this at the top of /r/lovecraft.
This reminds me of the book Practical Demonkeeping
I've two for you.
The first is vampire lit that is short on romance, and long on storytelling. It's urban fantasy, post apocalypse(ish). Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
The second is a a one off novel that supports a much larger storyline in a series. It's set in a realm where an evil queen rules and men are slaves or worse. There is a fairly elaborate magic system. The story follows a group of misfits bought at a slave auction heading for the territory of notoriously powerful queen. The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop.
Oh, one more. Wildside by Steven Gould. A young man inherits a dimensional gate to a pristine earth where humans never evolved. No one ever recommends it, such a shame.
Look at those books! ...I have almost 1400 books on my Kindle. I'm sending a pic of this since I'm not at home and can't show you my bookshelf.
I'd really love to read A Discovery of Witches!
Sunshine and The Blue Sword by Robin Mckinley
Star Wars: Traitor by Matthew Stover
The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono
Links for the countries I checked:
But realistically they should be available everywhere where Vol.1 is available as well.
When teens show me their new scary book, I like to flip to the publisher's page and show them it was published by Avon.
Then I try to turn them on to Lovecraft himself. So is the script for The King in Yellow appropriate for Scottish Rite?
Sounds like you’d like A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (first in The All Souls Trilogy). It’s a vampire/witch romance, but demons are part of the world as well. It has all of the elements you’re looking for, but with witches thrown in.
Only $0.99 for all his stories, poetry, and letters
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-H-P-Lovecraft-Collection-Classics-ebook/dp/B01D3K19FS?ie=UTF8&dpID=51T4VkYJolL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_OU01_AC_UL160_SR108%2C160_
Recently I was looking to buy first book and found out that there are 2 versions of Thousand names on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Names-Book-Shadow-Campaigns-ebook/dp/B009KUX1KM/
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Names-Shadow-Campaigns-Book-ebook/dp/B00CQ1D5LM
The first one is cheaper but kindle version is not available for some reason and kindle version for second one is significantly more expensive (even more expensive than book 2 and 3 or hardcover). On B&N there is first version for normal price of paperback (8$).
Not sure what you are looking for, but a book that I am reading now has drastically changed my perspective on a lot of things. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt.
If you are looking for offbeat fiction, I enjoyed Nop's Trials by Donald McCraig
Older, but I like just about everything by Uberto Eco including The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum
Lastly, I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I didn't see the Dragonoak trilogy here anywhere.
These books came out of nowhere for me and hit me hard. They are HARD core fantasy (dragons n all that) and the lead character is gay with a romantic love interest.
The story itself is unlike any gay literature I've come across before. It is so well written and immersive. Usually with Lesbian novels I feel like I wouldn't even pick them up if they didn't have lesbian characters. They are usually cliche and not very gripping with the obvious exceptions. These books are not like that. The world is rich and the characters even more so. There are moments of pure agony (No spoilers but jeez) and real page turning scenes. I was genuinely lost for a few weeks when I finished book 3.
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The author is just fantastic and I believe the first book in this series was actually the first book they published which makes it even more jaw dropping how good they are.
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Here is a link to the first book in the series: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonoak-Complete-Kastelir-Sam-Farren-ebook/dp/B00WOXQVM2/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&dpID=51yDgr10CyL&dpPl=1&keywords=dragonoak&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&qid=1491413672&ref=plSrch&ref_=mp_s_a_1_2&sr=8-2
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Here is the authors twitter account: https://twitter.com/sfarrenbooks?lang=en . They do have another book called Bitfrost but I have only just started it so I don't have much feedback yet.
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I sincerely hope you give this a go and enjoy it. I have no doubt that you will.
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I also recommend it to anyone regardless of the fantasy aspect. It is a wonderful story.
no to steal his thunder but
https://www.amazon.com/Spire-Woods-Tony-Lunedi/dp/1521132518
If you wanted to stay in the Dark Tower World a while longer, and who doesn't, I can't suggest strongly enough The Talisman & its sequel Black House. The Talisman is a great read and will give you that Tower vibe and I straight up consider Black House book 5.5 or 6.5 of the Dark Tower.
Another possibility.
I've been keeping a list of YA fantasy with queer female protagonists, if that helps at all:
--The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
--Of Fire and Stars and Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst
--Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst
--Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
--The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso
-- Daughter of Fire: Conspiracy of the Dark by Karen Frost
--Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
--Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo
--Breaking Legacies by Zoe Reed
--Reign of the Fallen and Song of the Dead by Sarah Glenn Marsh
--Castle on the River Vistula by Michelle Tea
--The Afterward, by E.K. Johnston
--Crier's War by Nina Varela
--The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember
--The books in Shira Glassman's Mangoverse
--Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
--The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
--The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine
--Robbergirl by S.T. Gibson
--Sam Farren's Dragonoak series
--Starless by Jacqueline Carey
--The Nobles of Sperath by Siera Maley
--Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
If anyone is interested Afraid
Practical Demonkeeping is pretty witty and entertaining.
It was recently removed because it's going to become a movie! But you can still read the parts here (looks like paperback is done for)
You should also check out novels by J.A. Konrath/Jack Kilborn if you liked Crouch. Trapped, Endurance, and Afraid are my favorites.
Here's a couple more that I either wrote or contributed to:
99 Brief Scenes From the End of the World
Aliens, Sex and Sociopaths: The Best of Surreal Grotesque
Do you mean this book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0771RBLW2
ok I'm here again!
I've read retellings:
Dark Wife
- about persephone and hades
- if you wish me to tell you the warnings i can, i wish books put warnings in it so people can skip it
Seafarer's Kiss
- its a siren story(like little mermaid) in viking version, if i'm not wrong
- i love how the writer portrayed loki in this XD
Promises, Promises
- i linked the review
- its funny XD
Some other fairytales, not exactly retellings
Santa Olivia
- not a retelling, its about a boxer girl, it has a sequel too
- its a nice story and funny
When Women Were Warriors
- this is set in kinda medieval times
Dragonoak
- first of a trilogy, fantasy medieval
- the world building is nice as well as the characters
Second Mango
- its a story about a princess turned queen that searches for love of a girl
- its a sweet and cute story and hehehe its funny
Villains Don't Date Heroes
- there is a lot of monologuing here, because she's a villain, all that monologuing lol XP
- its funny
Iron & Velvet
- supernatural
- dissing twilight here and there lol XP
- monologuing too, coz she's a detective, after i realized that i got over the monologuing lol XP
lol i just basically listed all i've read for the past half year or so lol XP \>.\< i'm so sorry \>.\< and its not even historical
http://amzn.com/B00BOWPZUS
An anti-novel in 11 dimensions
Deep breathing / meditation in tiny segments. 2-5 minutes of deep breathing before a writing session, or at random when you get stuck. Constantly centering yourself will let you get wild with your manuscript, inventing (or accessing) higher dimensions and very abstract ways of thinking about spacetime.
"Going meta" is an art that can definitely be applied to writing. I reference this text as proof, it's an 11-dimensional anti-narrative. Also a legit sci-fi novel.
TL;DR: meditate 2 minutes at a time; read zany SF.
American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett NEVER gets mentioned here.
Just finished The Iranian Talmud by Shai Secunda and also going through Steven King's Under The Dome.
definitely the dublin murder squad for me, by tana french, which i think i recommended a couple of weeks ago, too. that's a series. if you want a one-off, i'd say grab the shining girls by lauren beukes. and finally the gargoyle by andrew davidson.
The Talisman-by Stephen King and Peter Straub. The authors then continued the story with a second book called Black House. http://www.amazon.com/The-Talisman-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/145169721X
An amazing fantasy adventure for any age. A good bridge for you as well. Other adventure fantasy type books that I felt were ageless, A Boys life- by Robert McCammon. http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Life-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671743058 Anything and everything Jack London. Read Stephen King short stories then move onto Edgar Allen Poe. To kill a mocking bird- by Harper Lee http://www.amazon.com/To-Kill-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0446310786 A Watership Down- By Richard Adams http://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708 Of Mice And Men- by John Steinbeck http://www.amazon.com/Of-Mice-Men-John-Steinbeck/dp/0140177396
Then you may want to move on to another type of adventure.
Into the Wild- by Jon Krakauer. http://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804 Every book is a bridge to another and so on. I could name so many more, but each book will lead you to them.
JA Konrath writes some good horror novels IMO. They are dark but also have a dark humor edge to a lot of them.
Plus they are cheap/free on amazon if you have a kindle. Sometimes they rotate out and random ones are free.
Amazon search link
Afraid was what got me hooked.
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>WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...
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>Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now...
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>A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed. A classified secret weapon programmed to kill anything that stands in its way. Now it's headed for the nearest lights to do what it does best. Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate.
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>Soon all phone lines are dead and the road is blocked. Safe Haven's only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of an aging county sheriff. And as the body count rises, the sheriff realizes something even more terrifying - maybe death hasn't come to his little town by accident...
AMAZON SALE 99 CENTS THROUGH JUNE 2!
There are six books in the Konrath/Kilborn Collective. ORIGIN, THE LIST, AFRAID, TRAPPED, and ENDURANCE are the first five, and can be read in any order. They are on sale for 99 each cents until June 2. The sixth, HAUNTED HOUSE, contains characters from each of the previous books, and is free until June 2.
this should be it: https://www.amazon.com/BAKEMONOGATARI-Part-2-NISIOISIN/dp/1942993897
I'm a defender of my genre, so here's my two recent picks:
John Dies @ the End
And, even though I've only gotten through the first fourth of this, the beginning was so intense and cinematic that it's the most excited I've been while reading in a great while (and I'm psyched to finish it!): American Elsewhere
Cockfighter's Ghost by dogson (kindle only) goes from like SF / romance to pure wingdings, and degenerates into like a machine code mode of narration, it's pretty unique.
That makes sense. Although one addition -- it's not that every book that doesn't have "the price was set by the publisher" that's done wholesale. AFAIK Amazon only adds that label when the publisher sets a price over $9.99. I know for a fact that there are books done via agency, mine for example where the publisher sets the price but that warning doesn't appear.
Edit: Hmm, I think I'm wrong! I didn't notice but there is a little "Price set by seller" note. Learned something!
14, by Peter Clines is pretty great, although it's more on the weird side rather than ghosts or demons. He is really influenced by HP Lovecraft...
http://www.amazon.com/14-Peter-Clines-ebook/dp/B00898J9IE/ref=asap_B0039LGSLW_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417358921&amp;sr=1-1
Origin by JA Konrath: http://www.amazon.com/Origin-J-Konrath-ebook/dp/B00264FT0Y/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417372387&amp;sr=1-7&amp;keywords=Origins
Haunted House (JA Konrath and Jack Killborn): http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-House-Terror-Jack-Kilborn-ebook/dp/B00BOWPZUS/ref=la_B000BCH4EM_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417372438&amp;sr=1-3
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Then you may also like The Shining Girls:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shining-Girls-A-Novel/dp/0316216860
Though it is a bit tame to be honest (at least compared to other serial killer books).
“American Elsewhere” by Robert Jackson Bennet is on of my favorite books I’ve ever read. It’s such a weird and cool sci-fi almost lovecraftian book, but the cover is this bland computer generated crap show. (At least my copy is)
cover on Amazon
I ain't birthed no babies! This would make me happy because I get through lip balm at a shocking rate, and I'm on my last one.
Happy Birfday - The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Not a typical horror, I adore it and find it very moving.
And congratulations! :D
Robin Mckinley - anything by her though specifically Sunshine. If you haven't read Mercades Lackey than you would probably like her since you like Tamora Pierce. Start with Arrows for the Queen or Magic's Pawn. Raymond E Feist writes another good fantasy series that has tons of books in it. You might even like the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books since you like the Game of Thrones. If you haven't read the Ender's Game books by Orson Scott Card they are very good. Some classical sci-fi - Foundation series by Issac Asimov.
edit: also because it looks like you like some historical romance The Secret History of the Pink Carnation and Peony in Love.
By you don't think you are good enough for Stephen King type stories, do you mean your reading level isn't good enough or your "this is too freaking creepy for me to read anymore so I have to put it down now" level isn't good enough?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett was one of my favorite books when I was 14. That book led me into the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett and into the Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman. Then Gaiman released Neverwhere and that's an absolutely amazing story as well!!
The Dresen files series by Jim Butcher is a great series. It starts off a bit shaky in the first book, but it's still enough of a kickass book that you are hooked and want to read the rest of the series.
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore is a great story with a good sense of humor. He is one of my favorite authors, and most of his books are ones that you can reread and they're still as entertaining.
Also when you are looking for more suggestions, you can refer to this handy dandy flowchart for the top 100 science fiction/fantasy books of all time. There are some amazing authors and amazing books listed, so hopefully you find some more good reads on there too!
Thanks, I've read the first and now I've ordered the sequels.
Try http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Demonkeeping-Pine-Cove-Series/dp/0060735422. That was a good one.
The Talisman - http://www.amazon.com/The-Talisman-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/145169721X
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1942993897/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=85C1ZVH20EWBS3NGM6S3
Last week, Ethria, Soulship, Hollow Core, Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains, The Messenger, and of course Uncrowned.
I'm currently taking a break from new content and re-reading Challenger's Call, before I move on to God of Gnomes and beyond.