#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 132: 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

This week I have an ARC of a book I told all of you to buy 2 copies of for your libraries back in the June issue of Library Journal. 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 #131. Our winner was Aubrey from Meadville [CO] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Sadie Hartmann, otherwise known as Mother Horror has been a guest on this blog before. You can read her excellent, Why I Love Horror piece from back in 2019's 31 Days of Horror here or, even better, you can click here to see all the places where you can find her. 

On August 8th, here first book as an author (she co-edited this Bram Stoker Award Nominated anthology) comes out and it is PERFECT for all of your library collections. Here is the information from my Goodreads which also is the draft of my Library Journal review:

Rating is 4.5 out of 5

Review in the June 2023 Issue of Library Journal

Three Words That Describe This Book: Genre overview, participatory, conversational tone 

101 Horror Books To Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann 

 Draft Review: Horror’s most well known fan, Hartmann presents a volume for readers and library workers to rejoice over whether they are established fear fiends or terror newbies. An excellent introduction lays out Hartmann’s mission, to take you on a tour through Horror as a reader, while also explaining her organizational process and demonstrating how to use the icons that serve as guideposts throughout. Most of the book is focused on specific titles, organized into five overarching categories each capped off with an original essay by the genre’s hottest authors. Within each section, Hartmann presents her conversational review of the titles, each on a single page with a sidebar summarizing the book’s appeal. Fun quizzes, illustrations that enhance the book’s atmosphere and tone, and more lengthy author overviews are also sprinkled throughout. The result: a gorgeously creepy book, told with an engaging and authoritative voice, diverse in every possible way. This book can be enjoyed from cover to cover or as a choose your own spooky adventure, but either way, it will entice all who encounter it to seek out more Horror.

Verdict: Horror’s popularity is on the rise and this book provides the widest possible view of the genre as it stands today and there are no repeat authors. Libraries should consider buying two copies, one for reference and another to circulate, and make extra copies of the reading checklist in the back to hand out, especially during spooky season. 

I couldn't put this in the magazine, but this title is a perfect readalike for my book. They are a yin and yang. Hartmann's written for the reader, mine written for the library worker.

And thanks to Page Street Publishing, I have 1 full color ARC to give to one of you. It does not have the index or the forward by Josh Malerman, but it has all of the content, including that awesome checklist.

Enter now and you are entered going forward, but also, get this book ordered so you have at least one copy ASAP. Again, I would suggest purchasing two. Two print copies of this book is still less than 1 of mine. 

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #131: Earthdivers V1 by Stephen Graham Jones

This week I have a signed ARC of a hotly anticipated Graphic Novel by a popular author. 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 #130. Our winner was Kevin from Boone County [KY] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

While I was at ALA, I got to see my friend Stephen Graham Jones before his signing at the IDW booth. He signed a copy of the ARC of his upcoming Graphic Novel, Earthdivers, v.1: Kill Columbus, for me to give away to one of you. You can head over the to general blog to see a picture of him signing it. 

Don't know about this awesome comic? Well here is the STAR review from the current issue of Booklist.

STAR

Earthdivers, v.1: Kill Columbus

By Stephen Graham Jones. Illus. by Davide Gianfelice and others. Sept. 2023. 176p. IDW, paper, $17.99 (9798887240459). 741.5. REVIEW. First published July 2023 (Booklist). 

New York Times best-selling horror author Jones makes his comics debut with an irresistible revisionist history premise: in the postapocalyptic future, four Indigenous people discover a time-traveling portal in a desert cave and decide to alter the world’s fate by assassinating Christopher Columbus before he “discovers” America. Scholarly Tad is chosen as the group’s one-way traveler to 1492, where his awkward efforts to blend in with the fifteenth-century Spanish sailors on one of Columbus’ vessels lead to trouble, necessitating Tad to make increasingly questionable choices to survive. Meanwhile, the others in 2112 travel to an abandoned school looking for history books to see what’s changed, but run afoul of other time travelers bringing buried secrets to light. The juxtaposition of these two time lines creates a strong sense of dread, as the fallout from Tad’s actions is slowly revealed in the present time line. Tad’s sections are tense and gripping, a historical revenge slasher filled with moral ambiguity and anguish, while the storyline in 2112 is compelling but convoluted with multiple time lines and ghostly intrusions. Gianfelice’s kinetic, expressive artwork enhances Jones’ story, seeding clues from the different time lines, like a buried hand, in the foreground or background of other scenes, while portraying the bloody violence of 1492 and the desert desolation of 2112 with detailed specificity. Highly recommended.

It is awesome and terrifying and gorgeous. You want to pre-order it now for your libraries, but also, ever to win this signed advanced copy for yourself.

And bins info for those of you who are staff or a patron at an Illinois library who is part of Illinois Library Presents, you have a chance to see me and Stephen talk about his work for FREE in a virtual program. It is Wednesday October 4th at 7pm central and the details are available at this link.

But for now, enter to win this Graphic Novel. Remember, you enter once and you are entered going forward. 

Thanks to IDW and Stephen for providing the signed book. Good luck!

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #130: Alien: Enemy of My Enemy by Mary SanGiovanni

This week I have a signed copy of a finished book. 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 #129. Our winner was Marci from Pierce County [WA] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Back in early May, I went to Bucket of Blood to see Brian Keene and wrote about it here. Mary SanGiovanni was also supposed to be there but she got sick and had to stay home. I bought a book by each of them. I gave Brian's away here. He took Mary's home with him, got it signed, and gave it back to me at StokerCon.

So today, I present a finished, signed copy of Alien: Enemy of My Enemy. From the publisher's summary:

While a moon hurtles toward certain destruction, taking with it a Weyland-Yutani bioweapons lab, talks on a nearby colony could lead to all-out war among the colonies. 

Hygeia, an outer rim colony, is doomed as the moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. When a distress signal arrives from a Weyland-Yutani biowarfare outpost near the colony, a desperate plan is launched to evacuate the trapped scientists and colonists. Their destination: LV-846, a key United Americas colony where high-level talks are scheduled to address the galaxy-wide hostilities between the colonies. Once there the evacuees, including a contingent of Colonial Marines, discover a plot that could plunge the colonies into all-out war. Their only hope may be an alliance with the deadliest ally imaginable.

As I said, I bought this book with the sole purpose of giving it away to one of you. Remember, unlike an ARC, this book can be added to your collections!  Or use it as a prize. Alien is a very popular franchise. 

Enter once and you will be entered going forward. 

Good luck!

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #129: The Handyman Method by Cutter and Sullivan in Celebration of My Horror Genre Preview

This week I have a copy of one of the titles featured in my 2023 Horror Genre Preview for Library Journal. 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 #128. Our winner was Nicole from Groton [MA]  Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Today on RA for All, I have this post announcing my 2023 Horror Genre Preview as the July cover story in Library Journal which includes my unedited, uncut article as well as a link to the LJ site.

Today, I am giving away one of the titles in that preview, a hotly anticipated novel co-written by a #HorrorForLibraries fan favorite, Nick Cutter-- The Handyman Method. Here is the info I received from the publisher about this exciting title.

When the Saban family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives. As a father wrestling with his unemployment and uncertain place in the world, Trent Saban’s attempts at DIY home repairs lead him down an online rabbit hole—where a paranormal radicalization surreptitiously takes hold. Stepping into the sole bread-winner role, his wife Rita tries to hold the family together as matters spiral out of control, going from bad to worse, even as their son Milo, a boy left to his own devices, exhibits the sinister side effects of far too much screentime…  

Blending the real-life terrors of insecurity, technology, and fragile family dynamics into a haunted house horror-show, Cutter and Sullivan offer a chilling domestic story that questions whether the most frightening monsters are those seen staring right back at us in the mirror.  

Thanks to Gallery/Saga Press for the ARC. 

Remember, you enter once and you are entered going forward.

Good luck. And please check out my Horror Genre Preview and start filling up your order carts so that your shelves are properly stocked with scary titles.