#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 70: Two Books in One Shot

This week's #HorrorForLibraries giveaway features two books. One, a novel I reviewed in the January issue of  Library Journal and one, a story collection  by one of the hottest voices in Horror right now. Details below, but first, how to enter:

1. You need to be affiliated with an American public library. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.
2. If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.
3. Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm each week will be considered for that week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
4. If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.

Click here to see giveaway #69. Our winner was Tracy from Lincoln [NE] City Libraries. Now on to today's giveaway.

First up, The Doloriad by Missouri Williams, a debut novel. From my Library Journal draft review as posted on Goodreads here:

A climate disaster has wiped out civilization and poisoned the land. The Matriarch and her brother have tried to restart humanity, on the edge of a ruined city, but now two generations into an incestuously created family, things are looking worse, not better. In the hopes of connecting with other survivors, the Matriarch sends out her legless, mute daughter Delores, as a marriage offering. However, after Delores rolls herself back home, all semblance order begins to unravel, except for the constant in their lives-- an old TV show, Get Aquinas In Here, featuring the medieval Saint facing ethical dilemmas. This disquieting story of survival meant to evoke a visceral and uncomfortable reaction in the reader is enhanced further by an eerily detached omniscient narration, revealing intimate and depraved details, and an uneasy physical layout of long unbroken paragraphs. Nods to human storytelling traditions from the Old Testament to Greek Epics to Shakespearre anchor this shocking tale to a terrifyingly possible near future.

Verdict: While not for everyone, this deeply unsettling, odd story will have readers alternating between overwhelming disgust and an inability to stop thinking about what it all means. Fans of critically acclaimed, macabre tales like Tinfoil Butterfly by Moulton and The Seventh Mansion by Meijer will find a kindred spirit here.

Three words that describe this book: macabre, shocking, deeply unsettling

This title comes out on March 1, 2022. This copy is an ARC courtesy of the publisher MCDxFSG Originals. 

The second title is a book I bought with my own money, The Strange Thing We Become: And Other Dark Tales by Eric LaRocca. Click here to read my friend and colleague, Emily Vinci's Star Library Journal review of this collection. 

I am about to start reading LaRocca's upcoming book for review in the April issue of Library Journal and he just made the Stoker Preliminary Ballot for his novella, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, so I was thinking about this collection already. But why give away my personal copy? Well, because this edition is now out of print as a new edition from a larger publisher is going to be put out soon. If I want libraries to add LaRocca's books, I have to hand mine over. 

This is a finished copy and I am urging the winner to add it to their collection.

Good luck to all.