#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Something Fun to End 2025

Today I have a fu giveaway to end the year, an interactive Horror coloring book. 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.

Last week's winner was Renee from ND. Now on to this week's giveaway.

A few months ago, the good people at Insight Editions sent me this awesome choose your own adventure coloring book, Survive the Night: A Killer Coloring Adventure, which came out back in March  From their site:

So, you and your friends decide to go away for a quiet vacation at a lakeside cabin. The good news is that you’re all together. The bad news? You’re not the only ones there! As the body count rises, prepare to make decisions, commit to them in color, and hope you survive when you turn the page. Wind through a maze of brutal choices and eerie locales. Go left or right? Axe or hammer? Stick together or split up? (That last one should be obvious!) There's more than sixty bone-chilling pages to color your way through as you try to expose the killer on the loose.

Along the way you'll encounter masked maniacs and creepy, lovestruck teenagers as you unearth buried secrets from the past. You’ll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror trope know-how to save you. Just remember, there are no guarantees you’ll Survive the Night.

Click through to see some images from inside the book.

I know it is probably too late for you to order this as a gift for the holidays, but head on over to their site and take a look at all the great titles they have for the horror fans in your life. Stock up for 2026's gift giving opportunities. Maybe even consider buying a few for your library's passive programming, craft programs, or even as prizes.

This week's winner will get their own copy of this fun, interactive title. Hopefully you have some time off over the holidays to enjoy engaging with it. 

Before I go, a few end of the year comments.

As we round out another year of the giveaway (which began in April 2020), I am also closing in on 300 separate giveaways (this one makes 296). Definitely more than 300 books  have been given away though because I have had many weeks where I give more than 1 book to a winner. And just last week, one of the last people who entered in 2020 won!.

Thank you all for being on this journey with me. I love passing these books on to you. When the giveaway returns on January 8th, I will begin with some titles from my January 2026 Library Journal Horror Review column. 

All of this is a reminder that if you enter once, you are entered going forward. Follow the rules above and get your name in the running. And if you have won before, as long as it has been 4 weeks, you can hop back in. 

Check back here next week (12/22) for my Best Horror of 2025, but other than that, see you in 2026.