#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 106: The Clackity by Lora Senf

Today #HorrorForLibraries is celebrating MG Horror with a giveaway of an ARC of one the best Middle Grade Horror titles of the year. It is also a debut. Details below, but first, here are the rules on 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 #105. Our winner was Christina from Thayer [MA] Public Library.

Now on to today's giveaway, The Clackity by Lora Senf. Publisher summary:

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences. 

Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight Harbor—the seventh-most haunted town in America—with her Aunt Desdemona, the local paranormal expert. Des doesn’t have many rules except one: Stay out of the abandoned slaughterhouse at the edge of town. But when her aunt disappears into the building, Evie goes searching for her.

There she meets The Clackity, a creature who lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse. The Clackity makes a deal with Evie to help get Des back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier. Evie reluctantly embarks on a journey into a strange otherworld filled with hungry witches, penny-eyed ghosts, and a memory-thief, all while being pursued by a dead man whose only goal is to add Evie to his collection of lost souls. Will she ever find Des, or is The Clackity planning something far more sinister

With the success of Summer Scares, the HWA's commitment to Middle Grade Horror has also increased, including the addition of the first Bram Stoker Award for Middle Grade Horror for 2023. And the timing is perfect because middle grade horror is producing some of the best horror out there.

Over the last few years, I have been posting about Middle Grade fiction in general, writing about why I think more adults should be reading it. Here is an example of one of those discussions.

I am so excited to be a part of this push to get Middle Grade Horror the accolades it deserves while also getting it into more readers hands. The Clackity provides a great example and starting point. 

I will be writing about Middle Grade Horror a lot more in the coming months; in fact, I have a longer discussion of Middle Grade Horror on the general blog today, but in the mean time, enter to win an ARC of The Clackity courtesy of Senf. 

Remember, enter once and you will be entered going forward.

Good luck!