3 horror book deals on Amazon

If you're looking for a new horror read, or if you already have any of the books below on your wish list, now is a great time add one or more of them to your cart. All three of the books below are at a much lower price than they usually sell for on Amazon. No idea how long these prices will stay where they are, but all three books are eligible for free shipping once you meet Amazon's $35 minimum.

The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand, edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene (with an introduction by Stephen King)

Any Stephen King fan is probably already familiar with this book. It's a massive collection of stories 

(800 pages) set in King's fictional world. Amazon is currently selling it for $13.34 (hardcover). The book listed for over $20 (I'm pretty sure it was over $25 at one point). At the current price it's a bargain, considering the huge amount of fiction between its covers and the two editors who put it all together.

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

Joe Hill's dark fantasy novel checks in at almost 900 pages (hardcover) and has a 4.3 on Goodreads with over 37,000 ratings. The paperback edition is $20 on Amazon but you can get it in hardcover for just $15.20 right now. (It was $26.60 when I added it to my wish list almost a year ago.)

Collective Chaos: An Apocalyptic Anthology, edited by Elizabeth Suggs and Jonathan Reddoch

I don't know much about this collection but it looks intriguing. The price has fluctuated greatly between $15.59 a year ago and the $6.76 it's listed for today.

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Black Hare Press Year Seven anthology

Black Hare Press' Year Seven Dark Moments anthology collects stories from the 2025 Dark Moments monthly prompts and BHP's Patreon site. I'm honored to have two drabbles included.

This year's anthology includes over 240 stories, including multiple offerings from Kai Delmas, Liam Hogan, and Eric Fomley. It also includes “FLEISCHFRESSER” by Bunny Rose, one of the longer stories in the collection.

I shut the door behind me and exhaled. She had scared me, grabbing me like that. Her nails were sharper than they looked, and she was certainly strong. It had sent a bolt of lightning up my spine. Utterly unnerving.

You can order a copy (paperback, hardcover, or ebook) here: https://books2read.com/BHP-Y7

Submission call - Haiku Page, March 2026

Haiku Page is opening for senryu and haiga submissions next month. Current guidelines from editor John Zheng:

Dear Poets,

Fond greetings!

I am sending to you the call for submission for Haiku Page 12, 2026. For this issue, we plan to run an issue on senryu and haiga. Please share it with your friends. The submission period is the month of March.

Simple Guidelines:

5 senryu (No attachment, please)

1 Haibun or Tanka Prose (in senryu style. No attachment, please)

3 haiga (in senryu style)

Subject: Submission HP12

No bio is required

We will try to respond in April. Please do not send us work submitted or published elsewhere.

Book review: The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Believe it or not, the guy who wrote the Sherlock Holmes novels also wrote other books. The Lost World (not to be confused with Michael Crichton's story by the same name) takes place in early 20th century England and South America.

The story is told as a narrative from the perspective of Edward Malone, a newspaper journalist. When Malone's girlfriend tells him that she won't marry him because he doesn't throw himself into danger to earn her glory, the lovestruck fool goes out and does just that. He joins a small group of explorers setting out for South America in search of a mysterious plateau that is supposedly home to all sorts of prehistoric animals -- animals that have long since been extinct everywhere else in the world.

The purpose of the expedition is to disprove the assertions made by Professor Challenger (a character who appears in a few other Doyle books as well), the man who discovered this "lost world" and was then laughed at by the entire scientific community when he publicized his findings. So the four explorers -- Malone, Challenger, another professor, and a hunter/sportsman -- set off to find this plateau, with the help of some native guides. They eventually do find it, and their unexpected troubles ascending to it (as well as leaving) are highly engrossing as told by the narrator.

In creating Malone as his narrator, Doyle has made an excellent choice. Malone is articulate, detailed, and funny. His wit and observations make what could otherwise be a dry science fiction book into an absorbing, entertaining story.

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is not a particularly long novel.  Many different editions of the book have been produced since it was first published in 1912.  The Dover paperback edition (176 pages) is available for $5.14 from Amazon ($8.00 from Dover).

Doyle has a well-paced, uncomplicated writing style that is easy to follow and pleasant to read.  Any fan of adventure stories (particularly stories like Stevenson's Treasure Island or Wells' The Time Machine) will likely enjoy The Lost World.

(Originally published on Helium.com, 2010. This version has been updated.)

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