#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 140: 2 Clash Books ARCs and 1 Finished Copy

As promised, I am featuring books by another small press I highly recommend. 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 if you haven't won.

Click here to see giveaway #139.  Our winner was Lisa from Allegany County [MD] Library System. Now on to today's giveaway.

As we lead up to October and my plethora of giveaways which will be way more than 1 a week, I wanted to highlight a few smaller presses that I trust and eagerly recommend. Today it is a press that consistently puts out challenging and exceptional Horror-- Clash Books. Their stated goal is to publish awesome and engaging books that transcend labels & break boundaries.

Recently I have given STARS to two of their books: Anybody Home? by Michael Seidlinger and Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca.

Today I have 2 ARCs for you to consider for your collections and 1 finished copy that you can add immediately, just in time for the spooky season.

First that finished copy: The Black Tree Atop the Hill by Karla Yvette comes out next week, but I have a finished copy for you right now. From Goodreads: 

What came first in this Gothic Western, the ghosts or The Black Tree Atop the Hill ? Set in an alternate American old-west that is hauntingly familiar yet strangely off-putting, Marisol is the first to see the tree on the hill, but that’s only to be expected. As the witch of Jack Boyd’s ranch, her job is to notice threats, even amid a most disastrous calving season. It is up to Marisol and the ranch’s ghost to work together to stop mysteriously spreading trees from taking over their ranch, California, and the entirety of the country. But real magic requires sacrifice, and Marisol is not certain she is prepared to accept the consequences of what she must do to stop the trees’ advance. This is a story about believing in intuition against the rain, about the violence of nature and of those who inflict it. Gothic gardeners explore the question of nature’s home in a progressing world. Oozing with conflicting resolutions and twisty insides, this is a stunning debut by Portland artist Karla Yvette.

True to the publisher's mission, this book defies labels. This title is a Fantasy, Gothic, Western, Horror hybrid, but one that will appeal to fans of each of those genres. There is something for everyone here. Specifically, suggest to your current readers who are waiting for or just enjoyed Isabel Cañas' Vampires of El Norte or Victor LaValle's Lone Women.

In the same giveaway today, I am also offering 2 ARCs. 

I Died Too, But They Haven't Buried Me Yet by Ross Jeffery. From Goodreads:

Henry was burying his again, but the thing is...she just won’t stay buried. Elsie, Henry’s daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he’s been burying pieces of her ever since, on the anniversary of her ‘death day.’ 

Each totem Henry places in the ground are memories of his daughter’s life he’s desperate to forget, attempting to do all he can to rid himself of his mistakes and his part in her disappearance and more than likely death. 

All is not lost though when a stranger appears at Henry’s grief counseling group with a dark and disturbing proposition for him. “Have you ever tried to make contact your daughter, to see if she’s passed?” What follows is a tale of deception and possession like no other. 

From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of ‘Tome’ and ‘The Devil’s Pocketbook’ comes a new terrifying nightmare about the dangers and pitfalls of not seeing your child for the person they were born to be before it’s too late and how grief can climb inside us and make our heart its home.

And, Violent Faculties by Charlene Elsby. From Goodreads:

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts. Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille. She is ejected by university administrators aiming to impose business strategies in the interest of profit over knowledge. She designs a series of experiments to demonstrate the value of philosophy as a discipline, not because of its potential for financial benefit, but because of its relevance to life and death. The corpses proliferate as her experiments yield theoretical results and ethical conundrums. She questions why it is wrong to kill humans, what is it about them that makes their lives sacred, and then attempts to find it in their bodies, their words, their thoughts, and their souls—seeking foundational truths with a knife in her home office.

Both Jeffrey and Elsby have written popular and critically acclaimed independent Horror. You probably don't have books by them on your shelves, but here is a good reason to take a closer look. Whether you win or not, take this post as reason to delve deeper into Clash's catalog and consider adding some titles.

I want to thank Christoph from Clash Books for the physical copies for me to pass on to one of you.

Next week I have so many books from the featured small press that I will have 2 winners! And then it's October where the giveaways will come at you fast and furious. The first one is going to be Hailey Piper's latest. And that's just to start the month! 

Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck!