#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Invaginies by Joe Koch

Today I have a giveaway of an ARC of a book I reviewed in Booklist last month. It is from one of my favorite small presses as well. More below, first here are the rules for the giveaway:

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 the previous giveaway. Our 2 winners were Justin from R.H. Stafford Library [MN] and Andrea demo Atlantic County [NJ] Library System. Now on to today's giveaway.

Christoph from Clash Books sent me an ARC of Invaginies by Joe Koch many months in advance of its May 21st release and I was very excited to get it scheduled for coverage in Booklist. Clash puts out a great product of excellent books with wide and easy distribution for libraries. When Christoph sends me a specific book without me asking for it, I know he understands it is perfect for library audiences. I also appreciate that as a small press, he has titles available 4 months or more in advance, which is what I need to get titles covered in the library review journals. 

You can see my full discussion of this collection here. But below is the draft review to give you a small taste of this grotesquely beautiful, thought provoking, and lyrical volume:

 Shirley Jackson Award nominee, Koch, presents a collection of 18 stories that are Weird, lyrical, and grotesquely beautiful. Featuring all of the creepy things readers would want in a Horror collection (e.g. rats, clowns, body horror), but showcased in ways readers would never expect, this is a volume that leaves both its characters and readers transformed. To describe the plot of any single story does Koch a disservice because each tale is more of a character sketch, a prose poem, or a moment in time, but as the reader moves through, they are stitched together into a book that feels like it could all be one cohesive story, and yet, clearly it is not. A thought-provoking collection that readers will experience physically, making it a great suggestion for those who like to mix their their literary fiction with visceral, lush prose, recounting stories that captivate and discomfort in equal measure, such as in Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton and The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer.

Thank you to Clash Books for the copy to giveaway.

Enter now and you are entered going forward. I have a backlog of copies of some of the most hotly anticipated titles of the summer and some great small press titles as well. They are stacking up so join the giveaway fun.

Good luck!