#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: New Story Collection by Gwendolyn Kiste and The LineUp Column Inspired By It

Today on the giveaway I have my favorite horror story collection of the year (so far) and access to a list of 6 excellent backlist collections you should be suggesting to your horror readers.  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.

Last week's winner was Allison from WI. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

At the beginning of 2026 I was reading Gwendolyn Kite's The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own and I was loving it! Late last week my starred review of that collection was published in Booklist and you can access it plus bonus appeal content at this link.

In celebration of the book's release next week, I have a finished copy (courtesy of Raw Dog Screaming Press) which you can win and add to your collection this week!

I am hoping all of you will order The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own for your libraries. RDSP is a small press with distribution via Ingram, so you can easily add it to your collections. 

Again click here to read my full review with bonus comments about this book.

I enjoyed this collection so much, I was inspired to highlight other excellent single author story collections as one of my 4 annual "From the Haunted Stacks" columns on The LineUp.

[Editors note because I have been asked about this multiple times times: the term for a single author volume of short stories is "collection," while "anthology" is used for books of stories by different authors.]

So not only can you use this post to enter to win a copy of my favorite story collection of 2026 (so far) but you can also access the article it inspired-- From the Haunted Stacks: Single Author Horror Collection to Devour: Six essential horror collection to lose yourself in.

You can access the entire catalog of my posts for The LineUp here. Since this is a recourse focused on backlist titles, the archive of my articles is a great resource to help you help your horror readers top  find a great read that is probably on the shelf right now.

Enter now and you are entered going forward.