#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR.
I was really excited to see indie come up as the topic for this week – I love indie books, and it’s always great to show them some love. For this week, as it is currently Blogtober, I’ve kept to horror theme with my 5 indie picks.
#5OnMyTBR October 14th: Indie
ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare
Edited by Eric Raglin, Ian A. Bain, Anthony Engebretson, J.R. Handfield, and Marcus Woodman
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
Format: Paperback
Published: May 1st, 2021
Published By: Rad Flesh Press
Your nose is to the grindstone, day after day. You spend your work hours overworked and underappreciated, only to return home and deal with bills, landlords, and the ever-oppressive shadow of capitalism consuming you and everything you love.
The horrors of capitalism are the horrors we all face every day, and they are confronted head-on in ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare. Contained within are nineteen tales of capitalism gone wrong–from designer children to deadly bosses, predatory lenders to plague-ridden laborers–all revealing the dark underbelly of economic oppression from some of horror’s best independent and emerging writers from around the globe.
In solidarity, there is strength against terror and fear. Let these stories be your guide, because, after all…”What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” -Karl Marx
Undead Folk
Katherine Silva
Genre: Horror – Dystopia
Age: Adult
Format: ebook
Published: May 1st, 2024
Published By: Strange Wilds Press
Beyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroad tracks of a small town in search of revenge and a quiet place to settle. Her only companion is an undead fox: animated with backwoods herbal magic and the soul of a middle-aged father who died before the world fell into darkness.
Undead Folk is a short, harrowing tale of sacrifice, loss, and damnation.
Superstition
James Blakey
Genre: Horror – Fantasy
Age: Adult
Format: ebook
Published: September 24th, 2024
Published By: City Owl Press
An umbrella is opened indoors. A black cat crosses your path. Three cigarettes are lit from one match. These are omens of bad luck that no one takes seriously. But at Van Buren University when these, and other superstitions, are broken… students die.
Sophomore Jerry Williams’ hard-hitting reporting has won awards for Van Buren’s school newspaper. But when he connects a series of campus deaths to bad luck, his editor questions Jerry’s judgment, kills the story, and suspends him from the paper. But the superstition-related havoc continues, and Darla, Jerry’s new girlfriend, barely escapes with her life.
When Jerry digs deeper into the mystery and publishes his findings in the school’s alternative newspaper, the university administration threatens him with suspension for causing a panic. But Jerry’s reporting instincts won’t let him stop. With his friends and everyone else on campus at risk, it’s not like Jerry has much of a choice.
As Friday the 13th approaches, Jerry fears a catastrophe. He must uncover who—or what—is behind these bad luck deaths and determine how to stop it.
A Press of Feathers
T.C. Parker
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
Format: Paperback
Published: October 10th, 2020
Published By: Nefarious Bat Press
Rage. Bea has it – more than ever, since her husband left her.
Lou has it – has it in spades, since she lost her job and her flat and had to move back in with her parents.
And whoever’s been murdering and mutilating the men whose bodies keep mounting up in Bea and Lou’s city – they’ve got it, too.
But when Bea moves to The Gates, an exclusive new estate with a strange and troubled history, and Lou’s interest in the murders leads her right to Bea’s door, the two women find the lines between nightmare and reality, history and myth and sanity and madness blurring around them – and a primeval entity born from the chaos of creation with her own appetite for rage rising up to meet them from the ground below.
She sees them. And she’s hungry.
Her Body and Other Tragedies : A Collection of Poems and Short Stories
A. M. Morse
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
Format: ebook
Published: October 30th, 2022
This collection of short stories and poetry by author A. M. Morse takes the reader on a beautifully macabre journey through topics such as womanhood and motherhood with a uniquely intriguing nod to the horror genre.
I’d love to hear if you’ve read any of these and what your thoughts were, or what indie books you have on your TBR!
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