My picks from the Based Book Sale
The weird, literary, and spiritually interesting corners of 334 books
There are 334 books in the Based Book Sale. Most of the buzz is going to the same dozen titles. These seven haven’t found their audience yet, and they should!
The Artist: A Battaglia Novella — AJ Rhino
Arthur Brennan can paint the truth in a human face. It's a gift, and it's brought beauty into the world and meaning into his life. Then a woman asks him a question that changes everything. For readers of Dorian Gray and Rosemary's Baby. A psychological horror spiral.
Confessions of an Occult Detective — C P Webster
Six memoir-style accounts from Vernon Smith, occult detective, with ghosts that look like ordinary people, ghosts that don't, and dark things lurking just beyond the veil. Written as a case record, which makes it stranger than most horror.
Bound by Blood — Kit Sun Cheah
Michael Chang is a shaman: he reads fortunes, heals the sick, exorcises spirits. When the supernatural bleeds into the criminal, he's the one who has to walk both worlds. Chinese protagonist, supernatural detective, case-files format. The most direct parallel to Mumbai Singularity's setup in the whole sale!
Lovecraft got a lot wrong. But at a small New England college, the parts he got right have been making everyone's life miserable for decades. The librarians drink heavily. The provost defaced Lovecraft's grave and got arrested for it. Someone had to create a foundation just to cope. Funny, strange, and entirely too plausible.
Shadow Hand Blues: A Cold Case Murder Mystery — Michael Kayser
1954: a blues guitarist is executed for a murder he didn't commit. 1994: a nomadic PI stumbles onto the man's guitar and a 40-year cold case cracks open. Part noir, part music history, part road novel. Cars and guitars. How cool, daddy-o!
Body and Blood — Michael Gallagher
Father Keenan and Father Nwosu are warrior-priests in a city where the Psychic District offers easy answers and Hell walks the streets between gang territories. Kids are disappearing. Something ancient is building toward a feast day. The Rite of Exorcism is a weapon and they know how to use it.
“Some nights it just doesn't pay to rise from the grave." Corbin woke up dead, her memories shattered, a child to protect, and a demon somewhere in the living world who knows what she's looking for.
All of these are $0.99 or free through Tuesday. The full sale list is at the link below — 334 books total, and these are just the ones I’d actually read.
Browse the full Based Book Sale →
And if you haven’t grabbed Mumbai Singularity yet — it’s also in there. $0.99 through Tuesday.