#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway #35: Horror Adjacent Titles

 The #HorrorForLibraries Giveaway is back today. Here is a refresher on the basic rules to 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. 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.
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 to see giveaway #34. Our winner was Megan from Loudoun County [VA] Public Library.

Now on to this week. I have two horror adjacent titles, one backlist and one upcoming, but both excellent titles for readers who want to experience the feelings of horror but aren't quite sure they are ready for a full out creature feature.

The first is a title you  all have already in your collections, Room by Emma Donoghue. This copy is courtesy of the publisher as part of my part in the process of this book's choice as the One Book, One Community for Schaumburg Township District Library. You can watch me interview Ms Donoghue for an hour at this link.

The second book is an ARC courtesy of Sourcebooks, a buzzy Southern Gothic coming out on 4/6, The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustain. Here is the back cover copy: 

Murder breaks through the racial divide that separates two teenage girls, forging an unlikely friendship in this Southern debut that’s perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don’t Rise

Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.

Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see.

As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.

I am very  excited about this book. It is a novel that captures all of the atmosphere of horror but without the supernatural elements. You all know I LOVED The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson. While The Girls in the Stilt House is not that exceptional it is VERY good and is an excellent readalike to the Davidson. Mustain's novel will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers. Get your orders in now and enter to win this 2 pack of horror adjacent titles.

Good luck