#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Two Finished Books for 1 Winner

Today I am giving away two finished books (to one winner) that I am pretty sure many of you missed, but I think are worth your time. Details below but first, here are the rules on how to enter:

1. You need to be affiliated with an American 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 for the previous giveaway. Our three winners were (in order): Jamie from MN, Adam from KS, and Jenny from NY.

Now on to today's giveaway. 

I have 2 books which were brought to my attention as I attended conferences last month. The first came to me via StokerCon. As I was going through the dealers room and talking with authors I met Ari Loeb. Loeb is an example of an author who is getting the critical praise for his excellent work, but is having trouble breaking through into places like libraries-- where there would be many readers who would enjoy his novels-- mostly because he is being published in smaller presses. 

We had a great conversation and he is a super interesting person. (See also his memoir-- in essays-- coming out soon.)

To help more people know about his latest novel, The Stunted Man (which has a blurb from Nick Cage and that alone is enough for you to know as to why your readers will love it), which has won numerous awards and accolades, I am featured a finished copy here on the blog. From Goodreads:

"Compelling, poetic, and funny as hell." —Nicolas Cage

"Best Psychological Horror 2024" —American Fiction Award

"Best Fiction" —Literary Titan Award

Aging stuntman Lex Mercier battles addiction and his own demons while searching for his last shot at redemption on a dangerous gig with Universal Pictures. But will his fractured mind and broken body allow him to perform? Can he ultimately quell his addictions and conquer his darkest fears? Or will his misery overtake him . . .

Written from an insider's perspective on the stunt industry, The Stunted Man invites you to peek behind the curtain at the men and women who risk their lives to bring you the high-octane cinema you love. Horror fans, metalheads, and iconoclasts will revel in Lex's journey throughout the dark alleys, haunted film locations, and seedy sub-terrains of New Orleans, as he explores the depths of depression, the haunting allure of stunt work, and the ultimate cost of chasing one’s dreams.

If pop culture makes you uncomfortable, you will absolutely love this book.

"A Confederacy of Dunces meets Frankenstein."

"Myth-making at its finest. An air-tight bloody triumph."

I highly recommend you add this book to your collections, whether you win this week's giveaway or not. It is a great example of survival horror with an interesting and frame-- the stunt industry. That alone will get pique readers interests. The fact that the reading the book is totally worth their time, well that will be icing on the cake.

Next up is a finished book from Poisoned Pen Press (Sourcebooks) that I had missed completely when it came out in mid-June-- The Farmhouse by Chelsea Conradt:

Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. Emily just moved in.

When Emily Hauk's mother dies, it's time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home.

They should have asked why the farm was for sale.

Three years ago a teenage girl went missing from the farm. Soon afterward, the girl's mother mysteriously died. The deeper Emily digs the more stories she uncovers of women connected to her new home who've met their own dark ends.

With each passing day Emily's sanctuary slips further away. The barn seems to move throughout her property as though chasing her. Her mother's favorite music drifts across the cornfield. She swears she saw blood in one of the farmhand's trucks. And the screams that wake her are not fox howls, no matter how many times her husband says they are. If she wants to claim this place as her own she'll have to find out the truth before whatever watches from the cornfield takes her, too.

The Sourcebooks Library Marketing Team talked to me about this book while I was at ALA Annual and gave me this finished copy to give away to one of you. I had not heard about this book at all, even as I was reviewing other titles from the imprint-- and loving them. Keep your eye out for their great titles. Like all Sourcebooks titles, these are books that are PERFECT for a general library audience.

Reminder, both of these books are finished copies, so the winner should consider adding them to their collections.

But it is more than that. All of you reading this should consider adding both of these books to your collection...right now! I do this giveaway not only to give the advanced copies of the books I have read for review away, but also, to alert you to books that you would not know about otherwise. I can't review them all, but I can fit a few more in with my Becky seal of approval here on the giveaway.

Next week I will begin featuring books with September release dates! 

Enter now, so you can be entered going forward. Last week I had a winner from 4 years ago who had forgot she entered as well as someone who had entered that week. You never know.