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Thursday, May 25, 2023

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 124: A High Demand 2-fer

This week I have two books for 1 winner. The first, a big, upcoming release from PRH by a well known author. The second, a hotly anticipated title by a cult Horror author from a trusted small press. Details below, but first, here is how you 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 #123. Our winner was Alfredo from Castro Library (CA) Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

I am sending 1 winner 2 books this week. Why? Because they are both EXCELLENT and the first is most likely one that you already have on order, while the other is one you may not know about without my intervention.

First, that blockbuster title. The Puzzle Master, the new novel by New York  Times Bestseller Danielle Trussoni. From Goodreads

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Angelology

All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower—he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people.

Everything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn't spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist believes it will explain her crime and calls Brink to solve it. What begins as a desire to crack an alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with Price herself. She soon reveals that there is something more urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, thrusting Brink into a hunt for the truth.

The quest takes Brink through a series of interlocking enigmas, but the heart of the mystery is the God Puzzle, a cryptic ancient prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia. As Brink navigates a maze of clues, and his emotional entanglement with Price becomes more intense, he realizes that there are powerful forces at work that he cannot escape.

Ranging from an upstate New York women's prison to nineteenth-century Prague to the secret rooms of the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Puzzle Master is a tantalizing, addictive thriller in which humankind, technology, and the future of the universe itself are at stake.

This is a SF-Thriler-Horror hybrid title that will appeal to all of you Blake Crouch readers. It is not to miss. 

This title alone would make this a great week to win, but wait....there's more!

Danger Slater is a name we'll known to Bizarro fans and his latest entitled House of Rot, is with frequent contributor to the #HorrorForLibraries giveaway, Tenebrous Press and it is Fungus Horror! From Goodreads:
The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand new fixer upper. There’s also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can’t be bothered to help. Soon, there’s no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It’s practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot . You’re never getting out.

This one is great. I  hope everyone figures out a way to order it for their libraries, but one of you is going to get a free ARC as well. 

Enter today. And remember, enter once and you are entered going forward. And if you have won before, as long as you wait a month, you can enter again. There are currently over 80 people in the running.  

And next week, I have the upcoming Paul Tremblay collection, so get your name in the running now.

Good luck!

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