StoryBundle is a website that presents of bundle of sci-fi and fantasy novels, novellas, and stories from both new and established writers. This time, we’re looking at a bundle of short horror novellas. As usual, there are two tiers to the bundle. The first will set you back $5 and get you four titles:
- The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler
- Obsecration by Matthew M. Bartlett
- Bishop by Candace Nola
- Family Solstice by Kate Maruyama
The book that really jumps out at me from this tier is probably Obsecration. It doesn’t really sound like horror, as such, but rather a fun crime story that uses some horror tropes. It seems fun.
The second tier unlocks the rest of the bundle (labelled as bonus in the image above) and can be yours for $20. For this price, you get everything in the previous tier plus the following items:
- 12 Hours by L. Marie Wood
- Joey Leonard’s Last Horror Movie Marathon by Kevin Lucia
- King of the Bastards by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury
- Beneath Ash and Bone by D. Alexander Ward
- Children of Fire by Chris DiLeo
- Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise
- Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste
- The Unicorn Killer by Candace Nola
- Taboo in Four Colors by Tim McGregor
- Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo
- A Sinister Quartet by Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, et al.
- Safer by Kate Maruyama
- Children of the Night by John Blackburn
- The Happy Man by Eric C. Higgs
- Plague of Gulls by Stephen Gregory
12 Hours sounds really fantastic, focusing as it does on a singular defining event. it sounds like a deeply personal story on the part of the described cabbie. I suppose that novellas, by their shorter nature, do lend themselves to these more focused types of story.
The Happy Man also sounds really interesting. Reading the blurb, I expect it to rely heavily on slow-build tension and the bread-crumbing of little clues that not is all as it would seem with the protagonist’s interesting new neighbour.
Not all of these books seem intended to be scary, even if they are listed in a horror bundle, but they all seem to draw on common tropes and traditions of the genre. For your $20 you will get access to a big stack of novellas, giving you lots of cool, short reads to dive into. Worth a look, at least.
You can click here to visit the bundle page over at StoryBundle.
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