(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best occult fiction books

1.) Something that is grey.

Silver is grey, right? ;)

2.) Something reminiscent of rain.

When I think of rain I think of cuddling up with a good cup of coffee.

3.) Something food related that is unusual.

Coffee chocolate Not that weird... but pretty amazing.

4.) Something on your list that is for someone other than yourself. Tell me who it's for and why. (Yes, pets count!)
Bones for my dog because he hates being alone!

5.) A book I should read! I am an avid reader, so take your best shot and tell me why I need to read it!

I haven't read this yet, but it's supposed to be amazing!

6.) An item that is less than a dollar, including shipping... that is not jewelry, nail polish, and or hair related!

This book

7.) Something related to cats. I love cats! (keep this SFW, you know who you are...)

meow.

8.) Something that is not useful, but so beautiful you must have it.

I don't think any nail polish is useful, but I love this color

9.) A movie everyone should watch at least once in their life. Why?

Shawshank Redemption Come on, it's amazing. And sad. And Stephen King.

10.) Something that would be useful when the zombies attack. Explain.

These would be particularly useful because I could keep my hair out of my face so I can see zombies better to kill them!

11.) Something that would have a profound impact on your life and help you to achieve your current goals.

skip for now

12.) One of those pesky Add-On items.
Apparently you can straighten your nose with this interesting little item Ohhhh, China.

13.) The most expensive thing on your list. Your dream item. Why?

This book is the most expensive item on my list. Dream item? Nah. A kindle would be my dream item, but not feasible to have on list right now.


14.) Something bigger than a bread box.

This big enough?

15.) Something smaller than a golf ball.

This ring is itty bitty!


16.) Something that smells wonderful.

This air freshener. Mmmm



17.) A (SFW) toy.

Amazon lists this as a toy, so I'm going to have to go with that!

18.) Something that would be helpful for going back to school.

These would be great to hang papers and reminders up on the fridge.

19.) Something related to your current obsession, whatever that may be.

I'm obsessed with books, so uh... most of my wish list. Or this bookmark that symbolizes all that is books.


20.) Something that is just so amazing and awe-inspiring that I simply must see it. Explain why it is so grand.

I'm sure you've seen this but come on! It's John Snuhhhh!

Bonus! Oregon Fruit

Fear cuts deeper thank swords! Thanks for the contest. =)

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

> They lose the sale on that digital copy when the person who bought a physical copy decides they want it on their reader as well. At least, that's the logic publishers use. Wish they would take a cue from the film industry.

The film industry thinks exactly the same way - they think the customer is an ATM machine, not a thinking person who legitimately avoids buying the same item multiple times.

They include the "digital download" version for many reasons, but mostly so that they can jack up the price of the blu-ray and get you to pre-pay for a DVD rip that you would do anyway.

I've spoken to these relics in the film industry - the thing they can't wrap their heads around is that buying their product is a choice, not a necessity. They just don't understand that they can't force customers to buy things.

I told them, if your movie is too expensive, or looks like a bad value, customers won't buy it. If it's not available for pirating or they don't know how to pirate, or pirating is too hard, they still won't buy it! In those cases, they simply won't see your movie.

They simply did not believe me. They think if you can't get X media except for on $30 blu-ray, $40 hardcover book or $20 digital copy, that you will reliably spend that much cash on their item.

Any industry that succeeds will remember that shopping is a choice, and that no one is entitled to customers' business.

Back when I sold books for a living, I always remembered that people worked hard for their money. I would make sales because I honestly believed, and managed to convince customers, that what they had in their hands was an experience worth what they were about to pay. I don't know if I could say that with a straight face about a lot of books at today's jacked-up prices. I would certainly never sell someone something that they didn't really need or want, or I thought they wouldn't enjoy. What's the point? They'll just return it.

Publishers don't think that way. They want the magic formula to "make" people buy things. That's why they don't publish (or publish, then sabotage and bury) some really amazing authors, while throwing "50 shades" spaghetti at the wall and hoping it sticks.

Examples: Before he was a "Game of Thrones" billionaire, George R. R. Martin's books were poorly promoted and out of print more often than IN print. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro still can't get a good break, even though her books are easily promotable and quirky enough to make excellent screen adaptations. Nancy A. Collins' splatterpunk masterpiece, Sunglasses After Dark, was a cult classic and a prototype example of the genre, even though it went out of print almost instantly, and it was supposed to be a trilogy, but no one would even pick up the third book for an initial print run, until White Wolf printed its retrospective collected version, over 15 years later. Christopher Moore is a wonderful author, and for 15 years he could only be found in the Remainders bin -- HEY PUBLISHING CORPORATIONS - YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB.

I have to say The Lord of the Rings is my favorite of all time. What I like is how it has a Catholic feel, even though there is nothing explicitly Catholic in it. It is hard to put a finger on, but part of it is the fact that the good is really good, and evil is really evil, and even though the circumstances might be dire, you get the idea that somehow good will ultimately triumph. However, since others have also mentioned Tolkien, I am going to give you some others.

A book I read in the last year that had a similar feel was The Anubis Gates by Catholic writer Tim Powers. It is a kind of historical fiction with a crazy but believable fantasy twist. The world of Anubis Gates may not have quite the depth that Tolkien's has, but there is a similar theme of good triumphing over evil via the path of adversity. I've got two other books of his, Last Call and On Stranger Tides that I want to read as soon as I can. Last Call is said by many to be Powers' best book, and On Stranger Tides was used as a basis for the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.

I also recently read The Moviegoer by Catholic author Walker Percy. It is not a good versus evil adventure, but is much more introspective. It is about some every day people struggling to make sense of life, but like Tolkien and Powers, I still get the sense of the hand of God in the background, working all things for good with those who love him (Romans 8:28). I want to read more of Percy's work.

Finally, I also loved Brideshead Revisited, The Brothers Karamazov, as well as C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Narnia books, and The Screwtape Letters.

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.

I just finished An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green last night. I loved it, and can't wait for the sequel.

I'm just started reading The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. I'm not far enough into it to make any judgement yet, but I'm intrigued as to where it's going.

Also, a friend sent me Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet. I have the feeling it's going to get boring after the first five truths, but I promised I'd read it and give honest feedback.

Hi there! I'm Wil Dalphin, I've written a number of Nosleep stories under a variety of Nom de plumes (you can find the full list here). You might know me from my works posted here, narrated on YouTube, read on the Nosleep Podcast and Chilling Tales Podcast, or copypasted in the Creepypasta wiki. You can follow me on the following social media sites:

FaceBook

Twitter

Reddit

Tumblr

Blogger

I suggest primarily the FaceBook or Twitter accounts, as those are most easily accessible for people, and you can interact with me. Some people even friend request me on my personal Facebook profile, which is fine, if you don't mind photos of my kids and the occasional rant about bad drivers or my wife's cats. We can talk about the latest season of Channel Zero or whatever James Wan movie is currently in theaters.

I've got a book of about three dozen or so of my stories from over the years available on Amazon: Don't Look Away, which is available in print and eBook format, and you can even read it for free if you have the Amazon Kindle unlimited program! It's fully illustrated by two talented artists, in a style that was a blatant nod to the Alvin Schwartz/Stephen Gammell "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" anthologies that so many of us loved as youths (and still do)!

I don't have a patreon account, because I've always been about just sharing the horror, but I set up a ko-fi account, so if anyone just sort of wants to ever say, "I loved your latest story, thanks for the scare!" they can tip me a cup of coffee. :)

Thank you for reading!

Alright. These two books are based off the series and seem like a cool bit of memorabilia.

(Bobby's guide to hunting)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062103377/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1374813077&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY190

(John's journal) (very important in the early seasons)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062073192/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?qid=1374813154&sr=8-14&pi=AC_SX110_SY190

Or there's a nice supernatural themed travel mug that your friend might enjoy. It has a well known quote from the pilot episode on it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003KUIX3S/ref=mp_s_a_1_54?qid=1374813272&sr=8-54&pi=AC_SX110_SY190

All of these are around $12 each so you could do a bundle of all of them and still be under budget.

Most recently I wrote a vaporwave-inspired novel called vape girl. The writing style is very unorthodox, the dozen or so people who've read it seem to really like it though. It's part RPG, part scene-kid memoir, part occult training. A lot of my books are very experimental. I like pushing storytelling and language as far as I can, it expands my mind a lot and I grow exponentially from each book.


Also Cockfighter's Ghost, which was my 2009 Nanowrimo project. I set out to break as many rules of storytelling as possible. It's pretty bizarre. You can click the cover to get the "look inside" free sample from the prologue & 1st chapter on amazon.


If you want a free poetry sample, check out the most mysterious poem ever written for pure wordplay. You'll get what I mean by immediate writing, edginess, novelty etc.

Dragonoak: The Complete History of Kastelir by Sam Farren has three main female characters, all of whom are friends (two of them enter a relationship with each other down the line). The book is part of a series, but I've only read the first and enjoyed it a bunch. I would say there's more emphasis on building their relationships than there is on the plot, which I found perfectly fine.

I apologize for taking long to answer but I've been on vacation for a week now and I've had crappy internet at my hotel. I might do an AMA on SSSOCC since I've seen other Authors of the Month do it, but I'll answer you here anyway. So here goes:


What inspires you, where do you come up with your ideas?

The inspiration for my writing comes from everything in daily life. It can be a song like Pink Floyd's - "Comfortably Numb" that inspired The Silence of Space. Or the feeling of disgust after eating a big meal, Self Control Breaks Down. Some of my tales are based on true stories like The Smell of Cigars actually did happen to me and other members of my family experienced something similar, yet no one in my family smokes cigars and the smell comes randomly. The Other Half of the Problem is based upon some really loud obnoxious neighbors I had that made my life miserable for a little while. It was revenge fantasy story. Generally, if you have any sort of imagination or experiences in life, you can come up with some way to make it terrifying.

Have you written mostly short stories, or longer ones as well?

I mainly focus on SSS stories but in the past I have posted longer form stories in /r/nosleep under a couple different usernames that I have deleted or I don't really post under anymore. I sometimes post in /r/darktales if a story meant for SSS turns into sometime larger.


What originally brought you to Reddit?

I honestly don't remember. Been using the site for almost 2+ years though.


What author inspires you the most on Reddit? IRL?

Reddit authors: T.W. Grimm did really well with 99 Brief Scenes from the End of the World and I also read Anecdotes in Ashes which I believe is a collection of stories from around the Reddit community.


Real life authors that inspire me are Stephen King (of course), Anne Rice, Brian Keene, and Drew Karpyshyn.


Can you see me out your window?

Yes, but what's that standing behind you?

You might try the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.

This is not hardcore SF. It is in the fantasy genre with vampires & witches but I thought it was a great read. The time travel aspect of the plot line is what I really enjoyed.

http://www.amazon.com/The-All-Souls-Trilogy-Boxed/dp/0147517729

Read any of China Miéville's Bas-Lag books - Perdido Street Station being an excellent place to start. Dark, strange urban fantasy in a world of his own design.

Also, if you like fantasy that's based in the real world, more or less, you might like Tim Powers's works; he writes what he refers to as "secret histories", which basically look at some event in recent (e.g. 20th-century) history where the historical record doesn't quite add up, and then he goes "How could I weave this all together by claiming there was magic going on behind the scenes?". Last Call and Declare are probably my favorites of his (although Last Call does use a certain amount of European mythology, it doesn't do so in the same way most fantasy, being set in pseudo-medieval-Europe, does; Declare uses Middle Eastern mythology instead).

I recently got back into reading. I'm currently reading 314 by A.R. Wise.

It's pretty twisted with some graphic gore scenes. I'm about 90% done with it and have been pleased up with it up til now. The 1st book is free for the Kindle. :)

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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.

Sure! It's called Don't Look Away and I love the cover for it (love it so much!) You can get it in print or on the kindle. Beyond that, if there's anything else you want to know, just ask!

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There's a book called John Winchesters Journal, I've read it and I'm sad to say it's one of the single most poorly written things I've ever read.

It has "experts" from his journal, but the rest of it is half from the brothers point of view (you're never sure which because it changes mid sentence some times) and parts of it are written from the authors point of view. He'll switch between calling them "The brothers" and explaining their life, to having the brothers talking about their lives but you never know which one is talking some times.

However there's another book called Bobby Singers Guide to Hunting and it's absolutely amazing. It honestly almost brought me to tears because it's so good.

Y'all interested in a metal novel? Myself and Timothy W. Long (of Z-Risen fame) have written a book, Damaged, focused on metal and mayhem, gore and guts, and all the metal tropes. Check it out if you want.

On that topic, are there other fictional metal books y'all know of?

Answered:

Healer (December 1972 Analog as "Pard"; exp 1976), which was elected to the Prometheus Award Hall of Fame in 1990 - Great First Novel and I don't recall seeing anything by F. Paul Wilson else since.
Current versions:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1588810089/ref=nosim/speculativefic05

Steven Dalt should have died in that cave on the planet Kwashi. After all, as the natives say, of a thousand people attacked by the cave-dwelling alaret, nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine will die. Dalt survives, but not without personal cost: he has picked up a passenger: an alien intelligence transferred itself from the alaret to take up residence in his brain. Steven Dalt will never be alone again. But Pard, as Dalt names the alien who shares his life, doesn’t believe in freeloading. He pays his rent by using cellular-level consciousness to maintain Dalt’s body in perfect health—no disease, no aging. And now Dalt appreciates the full meaning of the Kwashi natives’ saying: Of a thousand struck down by an alaret, nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine will die. But the thousandth will not die . . . ever.

We both have this =) So yay we match!

My book club read The Immortalists last year and really enjoyed it! Right now we're reading The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I'm about a quarter in and I'm really into it. We also loved Beartown and it's sequel. I also recommend This Is How It Always Is and Little Fires Everywhere. I could go on and on but I'll stop there :)

Love that series. I'd also recommend Masks of the Illuminati.

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.

Try Alhazred by Donald Tyson. It's based on the H.P. Lovecraft character and doesn't (I think) fall in the typical fantasy-necromancy wheelhouse. And yes, it's long... but it's rewarding.

I bet you'll love The unusual second life of Thomas Weaver. It's a 9 book series in the same world(s), however each book can actually be read standalone. Very addictive series, highly recommended.

Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon was a really good book. I really liked it anyway.

That's funny, my first thought from your title was Christopher Moore (but it's called Lamb).
This kind of YA but I found it humorous, it's got demons. Not too long either. I like Colfer, the majority of his stuff is YA but he doesn't write down to kids so it's readable. His adult stuff is great but doesn't have demons or Jeebus or anything. Crime fiction with a lot of humor.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wish-List-Eoin-Colfer/dp/0786818638

Christopher Moore has the Bloodsucking trilogy, about a couple of modern day vampires. They do have a pretty demonic vampire cat in one of the books.
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodsucking-Fiends-Story-Christopher-Moore/dp/1416558497/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416545745&sr=1-2&keywords=christopher+moore+you+suck

Oh, Moore also has the Pine Cove trilogy, starting with Practical Demonkeeping. The first two have demons and the third is about a really stupid angel who comes to town on a mission but is just too stupid to carry it out right.
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Demonkeeping-Pine-Cove-Book-ebook/dp/B000GCFBYW/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1EAGK0CR1EWWEZQ9S985

If you haven't already you should check out some of Wilson's books. There's some really nutty shit in them (e.g., aliens with pancakes, little green men, psychic powers/clairvoyance) but quite intriguing.

I've only read Masks of the Illuminati (fiction: James Joyce and Albert Einstein discover a plot to take over the world) and Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secrets of the Illuminati which is a collection of essays on many different subjects.

Great reading!

The Healer by F. Paul Wilson

>Steven Dalt should have died in that cave on the planet Kwashi. After all, as the natives say, of a thousand people attacked by the cave-dwelling alaret, nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine will die. Dalt survives, but not without personal cost: he has picked up a passenger: an alien intelligence transferred itself from the alaret to take up residence in his brain. Steven Dalt will never be alone again. But Pard, as Dalt names the alien who shares his life, doesn’t believe in freeloading. He pays his rent by using cellular-level consciousness to maintain Dalt’s body in perfect health—no disease, no aging. And now Dalt appreciates the full meaning of the Kwashi natives’ saying: Of a thousand struck down by an alaret, nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine will die. But the thousandth will not die . . . ever.

One of my favorite sci-fi novels but I've never met anyone else who's even heard of it.

I liked "Masks of the Illuminati" better. Shorter and with a steampunk touch.

I'm plowing through Bloodsucking Fiends having recently finished Practical Demonkeeping. I 've been on a bit of a Christopher Moore kick since reading Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. He's awesome (and mostly available on Kindle now).

[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]

I love short work weeks

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

1. The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
   
2. 9.0/10
   
3. Mystery, Science Fiction (although I found it hard to categorize.)
   
4. Well written, suspenseful and provides an excellent insight not only into the mind of a killer but the minds and lives of his victims. Only reason it's a 9 and not a 10 is because I thought it went a bit off the rails in the last quarter. Still a great read.
   
5. Amazon.com, io9 Review

Torment. One part zombies (not the flesh eating kind... also not really zombies), one part Dante's inferno.

> Small town reporter, Mia Durante, finds herself having brunch with the President of the United States on the day civilization comes to an end. An electromagnetic pulse blinds the U.S. Cars crash. Planes fall. Chaos reigns. Power is restored within minutes, but it’s already too late. Russian nukes are falling. U.S. allies around the world are all ready wiped out. The United States will cease to exist inside of five minutes.

> After giving the order to launch a full-scale retaliation, dooming the planet, the president, White House staff, Secret Service and those lucky enough to be visiting the white house, are whisked below ground where they board several Earth Escape Pods. As the EEPs launch into Earth orbit, missiles descend.

> Less than forty survive the end of the world. When they return, they’re greeted by survivors of a different sort. The bloodbath that follows leaves Durante and nine other survivors on the run. They find themselves fighting for survival in a world in which only torment remains and where death is the only escape.

WARNING: As I was reading it, I kept going, "There has to be a happy ending... Things are so bad... There is going to be a turn..." It. Did. Not. Happen. If you must have a happy silver lining in your horror, do not read this book. There is certainly a twist, it is just horrifying. This book has one of the best interpretations of Hell I have read.

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.

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King on my books wishlist. Thanks for the contest.

Yeah... the in-character story is that it is the punishment for worshipping the old gods. In reality, I drew the inspiration from the main character in Alhazred

I highly recommend Alhazred by Donald Tyson

You might like this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Scenes-From-World-ebook/dp/B0084X9XZI

Give Necronomicon a read if you like Lovecraft.

Torment by Jeremy Bishop.

The main character, Mia, doesn't have time for romance. Only for survival.

This is John's journal, yeah? Isn't there something they published with/alongside the book series? I don't know anything about it, but I remember seeing it when I was looking into the books for my mom...

edit: I believe this is what I was thinking of...

https://www.amazon.ca/Supernatural-Winchesters-Journal-Alex-Irvine/dp/0062073192

http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Winchesters-Journal-Alex-Irvine/dp/0062073192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394533547&sr=8-1&keywords=john+winchester your not going to able to watch supernatural after the apocolypse

An anti-novel in 11 dimensions

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Sleep-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B00A6CCF0K

My partner sent me this and I had to start guessing immediately. I picked our Fevre Dream, Sandman Slim, and Last Call right away. Then I had to come here to read the comments and see what other people thought.

I am still banging my head against the Queer Magic Circus, though. I should have read it, and if I haven't I should read it.

Closest would be this: http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Winchesters-Journal-Alex-Irvine/dp/0062073192

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.

Alhazred by Donald Tyson is a fun (and very graphic) story about Lovecraft's Necronomicon author. It starts in Yemen, I think, but he eventually spends quite a bit of time in Egypt before settling in Damascus.

Be warned, it is extremely gory, right from the very first chapter.

Actually, I find Amazon.cn has a rather large selection of English books.

And you want to know what's crazy about that fucking website? You can compare prices between Amazon.cn and Amazon.com and almost always find that the book on Amazon.cn is half the price or less than that of Amazon.com.

I ended up changing my Kindle so it was tied to a Chinese account.

Finished reading Doctor Sleep a few days ago and just checked the prices between that two website. 12.99 USD vs 31 RMB

The other thing is that KindleUnlimited on Amazon CN is a cheap 118/RMB year and has a larger selection of English books than the American website. Including often but not, recent releases. Yet on the US store it's 10 USD/month.

I think he would do okay in the general. According to his autobiography, he's been through worse ordeals and even has mystical powers.

Evil is a point of view. For some seriously dark stuff that keeps you wondering, I suggest Alhazred. My favorite book ever.
http://www.amazon.com/Alhazred-Author-Necronomicon-Series/dp/0738708925/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381118211&sr=8-1&keywords=alhazred

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.

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