Horror books for under $5 on Amazon

All of the horror books listed below (hardcopy) are available on Amazon for under $5. 

• The Devil's Pocketbook by Ross Jeffery, $3.45

"Drawn to the waters, Erik and Lara discover a large Devil's Pocketbook, and inside: the miracle child they could never have."

• Our Own Unique Affliction by Scott J. Moses, $4.48 (large print)

"An existential bleak, quiet until it's not, hallucination on duality, rife with fangs, empathy, blood, and grief."

• A Labyrinth of Horrors by Dusty Davis, $3.79

No description on Amazon and only one rating, but maybe worth taking a chance on for under $4. This is the publisher's only listed horror book.

• Death Moon: Teddi McCoy Horror by David Brookover, $3.81 (book 3 of 3)

"Death Moon is a sinister tale about the haunting origins of violence and evil."

• The 7th Man: An Urban Horror (Part One) by Marcus T. Jones, $3.92

"Six young men in their quest for riches, power, and just a better quality of life conjures up a demon that they control and use in their sleep to rob and kill off local drug dealers."

• The Alien Buddha's House of Horrors 4, $3.98

227 pages of horror fiction and poetry from Roberta Beach Jacobson, Alan Catlin, LB Sedlacek, and many others.

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Black Hare Press - Year Five anthology

Honored to have a drabble included in Black Hare Press' Year Five horror fiction anthology. Many good stories in this one.

From "Birds of a Feather" by Pauline Yates:

Taking flight, she perches on a nearby rooftop, cleans the blood from her feathers, and caws her disappointment at the waning moon.

See more details or order a copy here: https://www.blackharepress.com/year-five/

Find current BHP submission calls here: https://www.blackharepress.com/submissions/

Noctulpa horror mag

Noctulpa was a horror magazine with a limited run, published by Horror's Head Press. I've never read it, so can't speak to how good it was, but judging by the table of contents it attracted some well-known writers.

Copies of the issues below are available at a great price on Amazon right now -- under $3 each for physical copies. Worth checking out for sure.

• Noctulpa #1 ($2.49) - from 1987
• Noctulpa #5 ($2.74) - includes stories by Norman Partridge, Kevin J. Anderson and others
• Noctulpa #7 ($2.74) - 158 pages; includes stories by Nancy Kilpatrick, Stephen M. Rainey, Steve Rasnic Tem and many others

Speculative writing markets for reprints

A lot of writers think once you sell a piece and it hits the newstands, it's off the market. This couldn't be further from the truth. Plenty of magazines and websites will be happy to reprint your stories, poems, articles, or essays, as long as you still hold the copyright. You might as well get all the mileage you can out of your writing. Why not get paid twice for the same piece?

Here's a sampling of speculative markets that pay for reprints:

- Allegory

- Bards and Sages Quarterly

- Cast of Wonders

- Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores (reopens 1/1/24)

- Daikaijuzine (reopens 1/1/24)

- Escape Pod

- Frozen Wavelets (temp closed)

- Illumen

- Neon (on hiatus)

- PodCastle (reopens 3/1/24)

- Pseudopod (reopens 8/9/24)

- Radon Journal

- Shelter of Daylight

- Space Squid (currently closed to subs)

- Spaceports & Spidersilk

- Tales from the Moonlit Path (pays for fiction but not poetry)

- The Fifth Di...

- The Hungur Chronicles

- The Martian Wave