#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 132: 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

This week I have an ARC of a book I told all of you to buy 2 copies of for your libraries back in the June issue of Library Journal. Details below, but first, here is how you 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 #131. Our winner was Aubrey from Meadville [CO] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Sadie Hartmann, otherwise known as Mother Horror has been a guest on this blog before. You can read her excellent, Why I Love Horror piece from back in 2019's 31 Days of Horror here or, even better, you can click here to see all the places where you can find her. 

On August 8th, here first book as an author (she co-edited this Bram Stoker Award Nominated anthology) comes out and it is PERFECT for all of your library collections. Here is the information from my Goodreads which also is the draft of my Library Journal review:

Rating is 4.5 out of 5

Review in the June 2023 Issue of Library Journal

Three Words That Describe This Book: Genre overview, participatory, conversational tone 

101 Horror Books To Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann 

 Draft Review: Horror’s most well known fan, Hartmann presents a volume for readers and library workers to rejoice over whether they are established fear fiends or terror newbies. An excellent introduction lays out Hartmann’s mission, to take you on a tour through Horror as a reader, while also explaining her organizational process and demonstrating how to use the icons that serve as guideposts throughout. Most of the book is focused on specific titles, organized into five overarching categories each capped off with an original essay by the genre’s hottest authors. Within each section, Hartmann presents her conversational review of the titles, each on a single page with a sidebar summarizing the book’s appeal. Fun quizzes, illustrations that enhance the book’s atmosphere and tone, and more lengthy author overviews are also sprinkled throughout. The result: a gorgeously creepy book, told with an engaging and authoritative voice, diverse in every possible way. This book can be enjoyed from cover to cover or as a choose your own spooky adventure, but either way, it will entice all who encounter it to seek out more Horror.

Verdict: Horror’s popularity is on the rise and this book provides the widest possible view of the genre as it stands today and there are no repeat authors. Libraries should consider buying two copies, one for reference and another to circulate, and make extra copies of the reading checklist in the back to hand out, especially during spooky season. 

I couldn't put this in the magazine, but this title is a perfect readalike for my book. They are a yin and yang. Hartmann's written for the reader, mine written for the library worker.

And thanks to Page Street Publishing, I have 1 full color ARC to give to one of you. It does not have the index or the forward by Josh Malerman, but it has all of the content, including that awesome checklist.

Enter now and you are entered going forward, but also, get this book ordered so you have at least one copy ASAP. Again, I would suggest purchasing two. Two print copies of this book is still less than 1 of mine.