#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 85: Anybody Home?

Today I have a giveaway of a book I gave a STAR review to in the June issue of Library Journal. As soon as I finished it I wrote this down, "Holy Crap! What did I just read?" And remember, I read a lot of Horror, so for a book to do this, well, it is impressive. 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 84. Our winner was Miranda from Joliet [IL] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Anybody Home? by Michael J. Seidlinger is an extreme, in your face description of the planning and recording of a violent home invasion. And it is participatory for the reader-- You are implicated in all of the violence which is awful and yet very impressive.

Here is the refreshing and awesome thing about this book-- it is  exactly what it claims to be. There is no twist. From the first page it is terrifying and intense. This is sustained throughout. Extreme, unbearable tension... for all 250ish pages. It never lets up, it only gets worse. And yet, you will keep turning the pages.

This book makes Cabin at the End of the World by Tremblay look like a cake walk. The reading experience is similar to the one from THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE by LaRocca  but longer and more intense. This is THE MOST intense psychological horror you have ever read. Seriously. It makes Out by Natsuo Kirino look tame.

Three Words That Describe This Book: participatory, engaging narration, extreme-- nearly unbearable-- tension

You can access my draft review, the final LJ Star review and extra notes and read likes at this link.

But right now, enter the giveaway if you haven't already.

And thank you to Clash Books for the giveaway copy. They are 100% a small press you need to keep your eye on. You can visit my full list of vetted small presses for libraries for more information on them or other publishers of note.