#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 66: Infinity Dreams

Today I have a lesser known title by a well known and respected small press, but first, 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. 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.

Click here to see giveaway #65. Our winner was Melissa from Kokomo-Howard County [IN] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway. 

At the end of every year we are inundated with best lists of all the books that came out over the year, and often titles that release in December are just lost in the sea of yearly recaps. And if you have a December book as a lesser known author from a small press, well then you get buried even deeper into the coverage.

Today I want to do my part to help highlight a lesser known voice, from one of my most trusted small presses, Cemetery Dance. Infinity Dreams is by critically acclaimed, Shirley Jackson Award nominee and 5-time World Fantasy Award finalist Glen Hirshberg.

Hirshberg is a great example of an author who is perfect for library collections, and yet, very few libraries carry his books. With this Cemetery Dance release, I hope many of your consider adding this one and get Hirshberg into your collections. Your patrons will thank you. Here is the Goodreads entry for an extra nudge: 

There are people who collect coins, baseball cards, flashlights. They trade and sell them at conventions, flea markets, antique malls.

Those are not the people Nadine and Normal (a.k.a. The Collector) serve, and those places are not where you’ll find them.

Their quests have led them to decidedly less familiar characters and locales: 

A music obsessive who gives a little more than fandom—and takes a little more than music—from the artists he loves. 

A bouquiniste stall along the Left Bank of the Seine that has remained locked—for good reason—for 150 years. 

A box full of View-Master reels showing tiny photographs of places—some of which don’t exist.  

A former Nazi-in-training, haunted—to the point of life-crippling paralysis—by a taste.

But now, Nadine lives sequestered in the Northern California woods, caring for the Collector, who has slid into early-onset dementia. One day, against her better judgment, she accepts an interview request from a young journalist. Who might not be a journalist. He has come for their stories.

Or maybe for something else.

Meanwhile, down the coast, in the cities, a wildness has gotten loose, and the world is tilting out of true, and the boundaries between reality and dream are not just blurring but melting.

But is that for better or worse? And who gets to say?

Welcome to Infinity Dreams, a novel-in-stories about dreaming your life, and living in dreams, and the permeable limbo we insist on calling reality. 

This novel will have high appeal among you Dark Fantasy and Horror fans, and as you can see above, it is fairly easy to book talk. The "novel in stories" format alone will hook a large subset of readers.

Three Words That Describe This Book: novel in stories, slightly askew, immersive

Thank you Cemetery Dance for this ARC to giveaway to a library worker. 

Next week, I have a hotly anticipated title by the author of one of the consensus 2021 "best"  Horror books.