#HorrorForLIbraries Giveaway: 3 Books for 3 Winners (including a Signed HC of LaRocca's latest)

After the giveaway was off for 2 weeks while I was on vacation, it is back and bigger than ever, Seriously. I am making it all worth your wait because today I have a signed, finished hardcover of a book I starred in Booklist, an ARC of a LibraryReads title I loved, and a story collection I included in my LJ Horror Genre Preview that is out next week and I am so excited for the rest of you to read. But I am spreading the wealth here. 3 books for 3 winners. Details below but first, here are the rules on how to enter:

1. You need to be affiliated with an American 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 for the previous giveaway. Our winner was Stephanie from CT. Now on to today's giveaway.

I am not going to bury the lead here. I have a signed Hard Cover finished copy of Eric LaRocca's just released We Are Always Tender with Our Dead, the first book in his epic Burnt Sparrow trilogy. It is signed because-- and this is BREAKING NEWS-- tomorrow night I am stepping in for Daniel Kraus to host Eric LaRocca's Chicago appearance at Exile in Bookville. Details are here.

I have a starred review of this book in the July 2025 issue of Booklist and when I tell you it was a star, understand that if I could have given it more than a single star I would have. Read the details of my feelings about this book here. My three words that describe this book: transgressive, engrossing, epic

Book 2 in the 3 book giveaway is  Breathe in, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley. It came out earlier this month, made the September 2025 LibraryReads list, and I had a glowing review in the September issue of Booklist here. My three words that describe this book: cinematic, dark humor, health influencer horror.

This is a consciously meta slasher in the Scream style. McAuley delivers readers interesting and flawed but always sympathetic characters, cinematic storytelling, a brisk pace, a tone that combines the darkly humorous with introspection, and most importantly, kills that are creatively over-the-top. Your readers are going to love this. I am giving away the ARC I read for my review, so you cannot add this one to your collections, but you can absolutely use it for a Spooky Season giveaway. 

And last but certainly not least is a collection that you CANNOT miss. Order this for your libraries ASAP. It is Uncertain Son and Other Stories by Thomas Ha. It will be out next week from Undertow Publications, one of my favorite speculative small presses. And it is not just me. The press has won many awards and has published authors you know and whose books you own. I feel so strongly about the need for you to order this books for your library collection that I included it in my Horror Genre Preview in the July 2025 issue of LJ here. From the publisher:

Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities. Sharp, incisive, imaginative, and visionary, Thomas Ha's debut heralds the arrival of a vital new voice.

The winner of this title will receive an ARC but again, this book releases to the world next week! 

That is 3 books for 3 winners. I will give them out in the order they are listed here. But remember, everyone is a winner when you order these titles for your library so you and your patrons can enjoy them now and for years to come.

Enter now and you are entered going forward and forward is going to be fun because it is October and I have many books to give away and lots of fun posts planned. Stay tuned. And Good Luck!