Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for the foreseeable future. This week I am featuring 2 titles are featured in the July issue of Library Journal which contains my Genre Preview article. And which I reviewed in Booklist here and here. Details below but first, here are the rules on how to enter:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 from Lisa from PA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 
Today, I am offering 1 lucky winner two high demand ARCs. First up a novel to which I gave a starred review in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.
STARBy Eric LaRoccaTen years after the events of We Are Always Tender With Our Dead readers return to the blighted, rotten town of Burnt Sparrow, NH. Rupert and Gladys are still trapped within the walls of End House, unable to even poke a finger over the threshold without their skin unraveling. The claustrophobia and anxiety are already intense, when one day their regular grocery delivery comes with an anonymous confession letter addressed to Rupert. The details of that letter are shocking, but they also provide the spark that blows the story wide open, allowing Rupert and Gladys the chance to taste freedom. However, once they cross this threshold, they can never go back to the way things were and the horror of this both discomfiting and titillating. LaRocca holds readers rapt, engrossing them in a tale of layered depravities, confident they will be unable to look away. An exemplary middle book of a trilogy; a strong stand-alone story that plants the seed of the finale to come; a tale that honors the history of the Gothic but gives it new life by injecting it with the alluring catharsis of transgressive horror; for fans of Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, and Poppy Z. Brite.
Three Words That Describe This Book: crossing thresholds, extreme horror meets Gothic, engrossing
Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. We Turn Gruesome at Night by Eric LaRocca comes out on 9/8/26 from Titan Books who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.
Next up, a great book by a high demand author:
By Alma Katsu
Katsu (Fiend) returns with a modern retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray that hits very close to home. Dorothy lands her dream job with an AI meets motion capture effects company, but her destructive need to be popular rears its head when she illegally accesses their servers to create the gorgeous influencer, Isabella, passing her off as a real person. Her work gets a few likes before attracting the attention of someone offering to make all of her dreams come true, for an unnamed price. Dorothy agrees and her life changes overnight, as her world quickly goes to unimaginable heights before spiraling out of control leading to horrors that pile upon horrors. Uncomfortable at every turn (including gnarly body horror), the real terror here comes when readers inevitably interrogate their own social media choices. Think the film The Substance, but with more substance. For readers who enjoy Faustian bargains like All's Well by Awad or We Sold Our Souls by Hendrix as well as the AI implications explored by Tingle in Bury Your Gays.
Three Words That Describe This Book: retelling, squirm inducing, deal with the devil
Enter now and you are entered going forward.
Both books, one winner.
Good luck.
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