#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway # 36: Whisper Down the Lane

  It's #HorrorForLibraries Giveaway day. 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 #35. Our winner was Pam from Bedford [MA] Free Public Library.

Now onto to this week and an ARC of one of the most hotly anticipated Horror titles of this Spring: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman. I gave it a full glowing review here, but for the lazy among your, here are the highlights of that post:

Professor Howdy, the school rabbit, disemboweled and spread out ritualistically on the school soccer fields, opens Chapman’s (The Remaking) deeply unsettling and unputdownable novel which mines the real trials that launched the Satanic Panic of the 1980s for inspiration. Told from two, alternating first person perspectives, Richard in 2013 and Sean in 1983, readers follow Sean’s gut wrenching experiences as one of the defendants in those trials and Richard, who is living with the repercussions of those events in the future, repercussions that are coming back from the grave to rear their demonic head and punish him. Readers can tell from the start that Ricahrd is hiding important information and yet, he draws them in, urging an uneasy and discomforting emotional participation in both stories. When the dots between the narratives begin to connect, that’s when the terror unspools, spilling all over the page. Creepy and engaging, this is a tale for readers who enjoy true crime like We Believe the Children by Richard Beck, horror like My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, and intensely, disorienting psychological suspense where what is real and what is imagined blur beyond recognition like Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin.

Three Words That Describe This Book: engaging, intensely unsettling, dual narratives

The novel comes out on 4/6/21. I am sure most of you have ordered this Quirk Books title for your collections already. If you haven't go fix that. 

And in the meantime, while you wait, enter for a chance to win this title or one of my upcoming #HorrorForLibraries giveaways.

I have copies of the upcoming Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, and Caitlin Starling coming soon, as well as a few excellent titles by up and coming authors. You don't want to miss out. Enter today and you are entered going forward.

Good luck!