#Horror For Libraries Giveaway: Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones Plus a Bonus Book

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 a huge title which I gave a starred review in Booklist last month, and another title I am super excited about but did not have time to review. 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.

The last winner was from Lisa from PA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

I am just going to start with the first book because you all want to read it and there are NOT a lot of paper ARCs circulating.

STAR

Off the Reservation

Stephen Graham Jones

Oct. 2026. 416p. Saga, $32 (9781668225127).

First published July 2026 (Booklist).

When digging into the darkest corners of history, no one is spared from the monsters unearthed. Set five years after the action of The Only Good Indians, Jones’ companion novel begins with one of its only survivors, Nate Yellow Tail, severely injured after robbing the home of a wealthy “Summer Indian.” While in the hospital, Nurse Seine recruits Nate to join a rag-tag group of Indians, herself, a mute young man dressed like a priest, and the RV owner, actively grieving the death of her husband and sons, on a quest from their Montana reservation to Pennsylvania’s infamous Carlisle Indian School to repatriate the bones of a murdered Blackfeet boy. However, gathering the bones is only half the story, as something evil is determined to follow them home, unless Nate can make his own last stand. A hilarious road trip novel, a fresh, non-religious take on the possession trope, a visceral and vulnerable character study, laying bare a 360 degree view of the horrors of being Native in America. More than the sum of its perfectly constructed parts, this is a horror novel where every detail works together, deepening the emotional impact for all. For fans of Iglesias’ The Devil Takes You Home and the possession trope as reimagined by Cordova in Monstrilio. 

Three Words That Describe This Book: immersive, non-Christian possession, visceral/venerable/hilarious

Click here to read a lot more by me about this book. Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones comes out on October 13th from Saga Press (also my publisher) who sent me this copy to give away to one of you.

Since I have your attention I wanted to alert you to another book coming out this October, The Porcelain Sisters by Daryl Gregory. From the publisher's website:

A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant—and literally porcelain—sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. In his newest adventure, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory (We Are All Completely Fine) delivers a dizzying, darkly funny, and surprisingly poignant romp through the horrors of sisterhood.

“The Porcelain Sisters will grip you from the first page and stay with you long after the brilliant finale.” —Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia 

Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her sister, Isabel—who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel’s porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante: the Dollmaker.  

The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Le Clan: Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry, haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons—one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat—and their human familiars. Along the way, the sisters learn that they’ve been lied to their entire lives. Their mother wasn’t just a homemaker who died in a car accident, she was a legendary enforcer in the Le Clan des Sorcières.

While Ruth has to come out of her shell and deal with her own latent powers, Isabel has to grow up in a body that can’t grow. Together they’ll have to outwit and outfight everyone to claim their birthright.

The Porcelain Sisters comes out on October 27th from Tachyon Publications who sent me this copy for me to give away to one of you.

Two books, one winner. Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck!

#HorrorForLIbrariesGiveaway: ARCs of Eric LaRocca and Alma Katsu for 1 Lucky Winner

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:

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 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.

STAR

We Turn Gruesome At Night Burnt Sparrow Book 2

By Eric LaRocca

Ten 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:

Incarnate

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

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Incarnate by Alma Katsu comes out on 9/22/26 from GP Putnam and Son's who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Both books, one winner.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway is Off This Week

I have been giving away 2 books a week for over a month, but this week, the giveaway is on pause. Back next week with 2 HUGE titles for 1 winner and then 2 books a week for the foreseeable future.

2026 Horror Genre Preview is Live

Click on over to RA for All to read it and get all the links. Or click on the image below.

Also, always head over to my Archive of Becky's Lists, Articles, and Presentations for a great cache of article and more. It is always in the right gutter, page list.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: ARCs of Rachel Harrison and Scott Hawkins for 1 winner

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:

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 from John from WA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Today (and next week), I am offering 1 lucky winner to high demand ARCs. First up one of my favorite books of 2026. I gave this novel a starred review in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.

Kiss Slay Replay

By Rachel Harrison Sept. 2026. 336p. 

Weddings can be horror, especially for Willa, just a few months out from cancelling her own wedding, reuniting with her college besties (and her ex), for a wedding at a former summer camp deep in the Hudson Valley. But at this wedding, the horror is all too real as a masked man goes on a murderous rampage, killing everyone, including Willa. That is, until she wakes up in her own bed to find it was all a nightmare. Or was it? The day she just dreamed of appears to be happening again. Bestseller Harrison (Play Nice) doubles down on what is expected from a time loop tale – intense unease, existential terror, deep character development, and dark humor– while also presenting original and compelling twists. Harrison puts Willa through hell; however she will need to push past her own anxiety and depression to truly find herself because the only way out is for her to find a way through. Clearly for fans of time loop stories, but don’t pigeon hole this brilliant novel because it is also a tale that actively investigates the horror genre itself much like I Was a Teenaged Slasher by Jones or Lucky Day by Tingle.

Three Words That Describe This Book: time loop, character driven, wholly original 

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison comes out on 9/8/26 from Berkely who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

The second title is a long awaited book by the author of a modern cult classic which I also reviewed here in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.

Blacktail 

by Scott Hawkins 

Ten years after the publication of The Library of Mount Char, Hawkins is back with another original and riveting, horror-fantasy hybrid, but this time, featuring animal narrators. After Blacktail, a young wolf, watches humans destroy everything he holds dear, word of his strength, anger, and blood-thirsty actions reach Old Kitty Mother, a feline witch whose power and influence extend around the world. She channels Blacktail's unique gifts, sending him on a quest to reconnect the animal world with their Forest God, who has forsaken them. This is eco-horror at its most primal and visceral. The various animal narrators make it very clear not only how horrible humans are, but also show how far they are all willing to go to get their revenge. Hawkins pulls no punches, and at times, Blacktail's violent choices are intensely discomfiting. However, this is also a mythical journey following a flawed but sympathetic loner hero who meets new creatures along his way, hears their stories, before moving on toward his destiny. Fans of Adam’s Watership Down who can handle the blood thirsty vengeance in Malerman’s Pearl will devour this one.  

Three Words That Describe This Book: animal point of view, dark fantasy quest/journey, nature is not happy with us

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Blacktail by Scott Hawkins comes out on 9/1/26 from Crown who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Both books, one winner.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: LJ Horror Preview Special

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. It is in the magazine now and it will be available online 7/15/26 [link added 7/16/26]. 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 from Kristin from MI. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

First up I have a book I gave a starred review to in the June issue of Library Journal-- Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst Jr:

Three Words That Describe This Book: Indigenous Horror, Range of Scares, Unapologetic

Spending more than a year on the bestseller list, and sent into 20+ printings, the success of Never Whistle at Night cannot be exaggerated. That first volume leaned more heavily on atmosphere, cautiously testing the market’s appetite for Indigenous horror, but this time the editors are unafraid to lean on the horror with a full throttle because “Back for Blood,” is not just a title, it’s a promise. Some readers will come looking for new stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Tommy Orange, or Ramona Emerson, but half the stories came from an open call, and it is those new voices whose stories are among the most memorable here. Beginning with visceral body horror, moving through stories featuring werewolves, found footage, and Indigenous monsters (such as a tulpa and “That One”), to stories that contemplate the horrors of racism, addiction, and the murder of Indigenous women, leading to an unforgettable science fiction-horror hybrid, a tale that reverberates its terror across time, Hawk and Van Alst Jr lay bare their commitment to unapologetically represent the full range of Indigenous horror voices. The result is a captivating, chilling, and menacing anthology perfectly suited for readers of all genres.

Verdict: The rare sequel that is better than its original. Suggest to fans of any horror stories or anthologies featuring non-dominant culture authors such as Out There Screaming or Our Shadows Have Claws.

The July issue features an interview I did with Shane and Ted who are also part of Summer Scares this year with the first anthology in this series. 

Thank you to Vintage for the ARC I am giving away today.

I am pairing this title with a book I am very excited about, a title I highlighted in the preview's debut section-- An Immaculate Deception by Isabela Livino:

A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.

1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road.

Madalena awakens in Leandro’s sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there . . . but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He’s silent. Obsessed. Always watching.

Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something—or someone—ghastly in the reflection.

Leandro is unraveling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she’s living in.

This title was also included in Booklist's Read N Rave during ALA Annual. Thank you to Dutton for the ARC.

So two books from my upcoming Horror Genre Preview for 1 lucky winner. Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Poisoned Pen Prize Pack

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for at least the next 5 weeks (probably more). This week I am featuring 2 titles that are perfect for libraries but I did not have time to fit them into my review schedule. 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 from Gary from IL. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Poisoned Pen is an imprint of Sourcebooks that focuses on horror. They are putting out a solid slate of titles for horror readers all year long. Like Sourcebooks proper, every single one of their books is a perfect add for public library collections. They think about the reader experience first, full stop. And at libraries this is important.

I don't have time to review all of their books myself though. Last week, I featured a giveaway of The Burn Line, one of their title coming out this summer. But today, I want to feature 2 more, titles I did not personally review but which I am urging you to order for your libraries. I will present them in release order below.

First up Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold:

One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even.

When Nora, Ruby, and Cham discover that they've each been dating the same man, what starts as outrage quickly spirals into a plot for revenge. Together they hatch a plan to lure their boyfriend to a romantic getaway in a secluded cabin at the top of a snow-covered mountain.

Only what was meant to be harmless payback soon takes a chilling turn when their not-so-adoring boyfriend is found dead in the cabin.

Stranded and snowed in, the women begin to look at each other with increasing suspicion. And as tensions rise, hidden motives come to light. To survive, each woman must confront her own demons as they fight to uncover if one of them is the killer, or if something else lurks in the freezing wilderness, waiting to pick them off one by one.

I did read and review Arnold's debut How to Survive a Horror Story last year here. Arnold is a great readalike for your fans of Craig DiLouie, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, and Simon St. James to name a few. Obviously you have an audience for Arnold. 

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold comes out soon-- July 14th. Make sure you have out already on order.

Second, a lesser known author but one you should definitely have in your collections. And by the Sea Gave Up the Dead by William Friend:

For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel following a young woman's return to her family's crumbling chateau to stay with her aging aunt - but grief, mystery, and something undead haunts her family, and soon, a dark history will repeat itself.

"In the woods... between the trees..."

Morwenna knows she needs to visit Bethan. Her aunt is wasting away in the family's crumbling chateau by the French seaside, where she's lived alone since the mysterious disappearance of her husband. The locals claim Bethan is responsible, though Morwenna knows her aunt is simply declining and in desperate need of company.

Grief lives in that house, and Morwenna has avoided it for years. Until a disturbing phone call from Barbara finally pushes her to act. So she packs up her children and new partner to stay for a week.

But the chateau changes people. Old magic has seeped into the ground. The village remembers what happened at the grand old house, centuries ago. They remember who died, and what came back. Soon, this place will leave its mark on Morwenna's family. And she cannot escape the feeling that, unless she learns the truth about what happened to her uncle, something ancient and evil will rise, and a dark history will repeat itself at the chateau.

This book has some stellar blurbs here. It is for fans of Grief Horror, Gothic Horror, and Sea Soaked Horror (a current big trend).  And by the Sea Gave Up the Dead by William Friend comes out on August 18th so you have time to add this to carts.

Those are the 2 books for 1 winner for this week. Thanks to Sourcebooks for the ARCs. 

Enter now and you are entered going forward. Going forward I have many of the THE MOST ANTICIPATED HORROR coming out in the next few month going out to my winners. You have to be in it to win it.

Before I go, also check out today's post on RA for All which is about the second half of 2026 ARC Party podcast preview. 

Good luck!