The Horror! Five 2014 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Stories You Can Read Online for Free - UPDATED!

Get ready for some horror! The Bram Stoker Awards have just announced their nominees for best Horror stories of 2014. Here's a link roundup of 5 stories nominated in the short story category that you can read online for free.  Plus two bonus stories that were on the original preliminary ballot, but weren't ultimately nominated. Enjoy.


"Baby's Breath" by Sydney Leigh (no longer online)

“Splinterette” by John Palisano

Illustration for Hot Tub by Hal Bodner

Here is an illustration I did for Hal Bodner's excellent, Bram Stoker Award nominated, short story "Hot Tub".

Art copyright © 2015 by James Hubbs

"Hot Tub" appears in the 2014 horror anthology From Big Time Books called Hell Comes to Hollywood II. Hal has had other short stories of his appear in the anthologies Halloween Tales & Fairly Wicked Tales. He is the author of the novels The Trouble With Hairy, Bite Club, In Flesh and Stone, & For Love of the Dead.

36 Free Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Novels (updated March 9th, 2019)

Free Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Novels. These books are all free on Amazon. I originally posted this in 2015 and it included 50 titles. It is now 2019 and many of them have begun charging for them (the nerve!). So, I decided to update the list and remove the non-free titles. So, the number has dwindled down to 36 now. I don't know how long any of these will remain free, so grab them while you can.

Magic of Thieves (Legends of Dimmingwood Book 1) by C. Greenwood

A Tide of Shadows (The Chronicles of Llars Book 1) by Tom Bielawski

The Dawn: The Bombs Fall (A Dystopian Science Fiction Series) by Michelle Muckley

Test of Magnitude (The Torian Reclamation Book 1) by Andy Kasch

The Eden Plague (Plague Wars Series Book 0) by David VanDyke

The Noru: Blue Rose (The Noru Series, Book 1) by Lola StVil

Among the Dead and Dying (Among the Masses Book 1) by A.R. Wise

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington Book 2) by David Weber

Oath of Swords (War God Book 1) by David Weber

Marking Time (The Immortal Descendants, Book 1) by April White

The Descent Series, Books 1-3: Death's Hand, The Darkest Gate, and Dark Union by SM Reine

The Paranormal 13 (13 free books featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, mermaids, psychics, Loki, time travel and more!): Boxed Set Including a 14th free novel! by Christine Pope, K.A. Poe, Cate Dean, Nadia Scrieva, Nicole R Taylor, Stacy Claflin, Kristy Tate, Dima Zales, C.J. Archer, Kyoko M.

Courtlight Series Boxed Set (Books 1, 2, 3) by Terah Edun

Balanced on the Blade's Edge (Dragon Blood Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

Antioch (The Circle Book 1) by William Harlan

The Devil's Concubine (The Devil of Ponong series #1) by Jill Braden

Out Of Darkness (The Starborn Uprising Book 1) by Jason D. Morrow

Anywhere But Here (The Starborn Ascension Book 1) by Jason D. Morrow

Planet Urth (Book 1) by Jennifer & Christopher Martucci