In 2023, Horrorsmith Publishing's Terrify Your Tablet event was able to earn over $1500 for fellow horror author Sammy Scott, who was diagnosed with stage 4 bile duct cancer last year. During this year's planning, we asked if anyone knew of a similar charity event, and until the last few days, we had not received any suggestions.

However, Hurricane Helene has changed that. Hurricane Helene decimated a large amount of Florida and North Carolina and parts of Tennessee. There are still missing residents, entire cities wiped from the map, houses still underwater, and millions of dollars of loss.

In 2022, Lyndsey Smith, CEO and Acquisitions Editor of Horrorsmith Publishing, moved from North Carolina, where her husband was stationed, to the Pacific Northwest, so this area is very near and dear to her heart. But a couple of our vendors, like horror coffee company Indigo Coffee, still has offices there. Its owners have been displaced, along with thousands of others.

This is our way of giving back, our way of putting one more drop in the bucket to go toward services and supplies to help get these Americans back on their feet after such a horrible disaster. All donations will go to those organizations with boots on the ground, helping with much needed services and supplies.

There will be two main categories for this year's Terrify Your Tablet: Free or Discounted (0.99 cent) books. We thought it important to represent authors who weren't able to make their books free in the Kindle store. Please make sure you click the appropriate box for the section you want. Horrorsmith Publishing is not responsible for any errant charges.

Within each section, the books have been organized by distribution platform (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, the author's direct website, etc), then sub-genre under those categories. But because we recognize that some readers participate on multiple book platforms, we've also simply divided them by sub-genre.

Happy reading! Be watching Horrorsmith Publishing's Facebook page and Instagram for the opportunity to win some great prizes!