Today I am featuring a book coming our later this month, published by one of my favorite mainstream Horror publishers, a title that was featured at StokerCon Librarians' Day, and an author who I am going to see in person here in Chicago next week. Details below, but first, here is how you enter:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 #133. Our winner was Mike from Scottsdale [AZ] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.
Founded in 2002, Quirk Books publishes a highly curated list of entertaining, enlightening, and strikingly unconventional books for adults and children in a number of genres and categories. They publish at lot of horror titles as part of this, both fiction and nonfiction. Click here to see their offerings. With all distribution handled by PRH, they are also easy to acquire for your libraries.
I am not exaggerating when I say this, but I recommend you buy every single Horror title they release. All are not only good to great, they appeal to a wide audience, always have great covers, and are well constructed to handle multiple checkouts.
But this is about the book today. You can get an ARC courtesy of Quirk. From the back cover copy;
A young woman's secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation–and she must escape it before it claims her.Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.
My copy of this book came from StokerCon Librarians Day where we had a giant table of books for the attendees and our Library Advisory Council Chair for the HWA, Emily Vinci. Here is my recap of StokerCon Librarians' Day which includes links to my Twitter threads (Only works if you have a login. Sorry, when I did them anyone could view Tweets, with or without a login) but it also has this pull out screen shot for then Bride of the Tornado was featured during the Book Buzz.
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