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Jun 21, 2019 · It’s true! The Internet is rife with free and low-cost books and many of them are gory, disturbing, and messed up in the exact way that you crave. If you’re a Book Riot devotee already, then you probably know that you can read some amazing short horror online.
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- "Premium Harmony" by Stephen King. Set in King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine (also the setting for The Dead Zone, Cujo, and many others), this story follows a couple whose bickering—he nags her for her weight, she chides him about his smoking—is cut short by the wife's sudden heart attack.
- "Shiva, Open Your Eye" by Laird Barron. What Barron's admitted homage to H.P. Lovecraft lacks in plot, it makes up for in unsettling and unforgettable atmosphere.
- "Abraham's Boys" by Joe Hill. Originally published in his collection 20th Century Ghosts, Hill's tale follows two boys who find a terrifying photograph in their aggressive father's study.
- "The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier. This story from du Maurier, first published in 1937, was lost for over 70 years—but now, readers everywhere can delve into the saga of a man's obsession with a violinist named Rebecca.
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- “Patient Zero” by Tananarive Due. "Patient Zero" starts off innocently enough, with its narrator — a little boy — confined to his hospital room. Surely, a hospital is a place of healing, not a setting for a sinister story.
- “Click-clack the Rattlebag” by Neil Gaiman. You know that feeling you get when you walk up the stairs alone in an old, dark house? And you know that you shouldn't be afraid of the dark, but you can't help but feel like something is following in your footsteps, lurking just behind you?
- “The Spindly Man” by Stephen Graham Jones. In Stephen Graham Jones’ “The Spindly Man,” a book club’s discussion of a Stephen King story lures an uninvited guest with a bone to pick.
- “His Face All Red” by Emily Carroll. Emily Carroll is the reigning queen of creepy, interactive horror comics, and "His Face All Red" is one of her best.
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Sep 2, 2020 · In search of a haunting new tale to complement your September? These free horror books will chill your blood, from 'The Yellow Wallpaper' to 'The Monk'. Download them tonight!
