#HorrorForLibraries: Last giveaway BEFORE 31 Days of Horror Begins-- 2 Arcs for 1 Winner

Today is the final giveaway before the bonanza that is 31 Days of Horror. I am offering 2 great ARCs, of titles I did NOT get a chance to review but I wanted to make sure were on your radar. 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 Jeremiah from FL. Now on to this week's giveaway.

As I mentioned above, today I want to feature 2 books that are coming out very soon. Titles I wanted to review but physically could not fit into my schedule. [Side note: wait until you see the 13 reviews and 2 interviews I have between Booklist and LJ for October.]

Both are worthy of an add to your library. I will feature them in the order they come out.

First up, a popular nonfiction title: Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe by Emily Ogden:

A fascinating and intimate inquiry into the shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work of Edgar Allan Poe, and why we are drawn to darkness in art.

Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. One hundred seventy-five years later, why do we continue to descend into the darkness of his imagination—and of the genres, from horror to crime, that he pioneered?

In this spellbinding and singular book, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant winner Emily Ogden plumbs the darkness within Poe and enters it alongside him. She interweaves stories from his mysterious and tragic life—from his strange disappearances and tortured romances to his nearly fatal use of opium—with those of his most famous readers and translators, including poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Julio Cortázar, and psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte, a descendant of Napoleon and a patient of Sigmund Freud.

Tracing their passionate attachments to Poe and Ogden’s own—unexpectedly sparked when she taught an introductory Poe course at the University of Virginia, where Poe himself was once a student—Darkness Becomes Bright makes a different case for literature from the one we most often hear (that it engenders empathy). This exquisite volume shows how Poe’s vision and its echoes across the generations allows us to make peace with our own flawed humanity.

Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe by Emily Ogden comes out next week, September 29th from Viking who provided this ARC for today's giveaway.

Second is a title I featured in my July Horror Genre Preview in LJ under the trend of "Sea Soaked Horror," Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning:

December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling [codename Thistle] exfiltrates from East Berlin with the only copy of a critical intelligence coup – a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet Typhoon ballistic missile nuclear submarine.

Incredulously – impossibly – it seems the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three years. Now NATO needs to be on high alert because that one-word message ACTIVE . . .

Picked up from East Germany’s Baltic Coast by the Royal Navy’s hunter-killer submarine HMS Viking, Heidi is thrown into a mission to find and investigate the TK-15, and must confront her own paralytic fear of the ocean’s crushing black depths and HMS Viking’s seemingly hostile crew. When her only apparent ally, Executive Officer Daniel Vickers, disappears as they investigate the TK-15, she realises this modified submarine is far more than a Soviet experiment to gain a strategic upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Here, at the bottom of the ocean, the Soviets have – for good or ill – delved too long and too deep into what lies beneath and woken something far, far worse. As Heidi’s own reality twists around her, as an unknowable force drives the crew to madness and cripples the British submarine's defences. Can Heidi control her own escalating fears and help bring the Soviet craft to the surface? Or will she make the ultimate sacrifice in order to stop the mysterious TK-15 from completing its dark and terrible mission?

Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning comes out October 6th from Saga/S&S Press who provided this ARC for today's giveaway.

Enter now and you are entered going forward, meaning you are in the running for all of the October giveaways. I already have a lot of giveaways planned, but after my trip to NYC for the week of 10/5 and an appearance at NYCC and a visit to the Saga offices, I will have more. Including finished copies of OFF THE RESERVATION by SGJ. 

Good luck to all!

And remember, starting 10/1, you need to be back here on the horror blog every single day for a month of new content.

#HorrorForLibraries: 2 Arcs for 1 Winner

Today I have 2 great ARCs, including this one I reviewed in the September issue of Booklist. 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 Susan from MA. Now on to this week's giveaway.

First up is a book I reviewed in the September issue of Booklist, Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella:

It’s one week to Tigglestide Eve on the quaint British island of Hasenhurst, where the isolated islanders are devoted to their unique traditions. A Californian family– Tech VP Greg, homemaker Jessica, and their 15-year-old, nonbinary, purple-haired, aspiring witch, Sandy– relocate so that Greg can help Hasenhurst move into the 21st Century. However, as readers know from Chapter 0, the house that they will be staying in has powers of its own, allowing a layer of unease to settle over the novel, even before the family gets to the island's foggy shores. Told through the perspectives of the troubled Jessica and a blossoming Sandy, Karella (Moonflow) builds the world of Hasenhurst with skill, deliberately unveiling the details of Hasenhurst’s “quaint tradition” of Tigglestide as the days tick down, details that allow the fear to steadily rise from unsettling to dread to all out terror. Thought-provoking, irreverent, fun, and utterly original, get this book in the hands of Chuck Tingle's fans and those who enjoy folk horror in the vein of Slewfoot by Brom.

Three Words That Describe This Book: great world building, folk horror, tongue in cheek

Click here for way more by me about this fun, thought provoking, and chilling book.  Quaint Fold by Bitter Karella comes out on 10/6/26 from Run For It.

Second the ARC of a title I am very excited about but did not have time to review, Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey:

For fans of Out There Screaming and Never Whistle at Night, a chilling anthology of tales centered around the longest nights of the year, with modern horror authors like Alma Katsu and Josh Malerman paying homage to the time-honored Victorian tradition of ghost stories, edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey.

Great writers of centuries past like Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Bram Stoker understood that darkness is always hiding amid the holiday cold and cheer, revealing sinister secrets. That in the stillness of winter, when the world is wrapped in a blanket of snow, the festive spirit masks the lurking horrors that dwell beneath the surface.

From haunted halls to malevolent delights, from vengeful spirits of the past to creatures lurking in the shadows, expect to encounter beings that celebrate the season in frightful ways in this Victorian-inspired horror anthology.

Join Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Bailey, Josh Malerman, Joe R. Lansdale, Alma Katsu, Ramsey Campbell, Cynthia Pelayo, Gabino Iglesias, and more for stories that promise nostalgia and dread, reminding us that sometimes the most silent nights can be the deadliest.

This is a book that will be popular with horror fans all year long and those looking to dip their toes in right now, around Halloween and around the Solstice. Don't miss this one.

There are also gorgeous illustrations accompanying each story by the amazing illustrator Orion Zangara who did the work on the tshirt for my book.

Add this book to your carts now if you haven't already. Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey comes out 9/29/26 from Saga Press. 

Both ARCs for 1 winner. 

Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck to all!

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: 2 ARCs for 1 Winner

Today I have 2 great ARCs, including this one I reviewed in the August issue of Booklist. 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 Lizzy from VA. Now on to this week's giveaway.

First up a book I reviewed in Booklist and wow was it great-- This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell. From that review:

Barb spent years as a scream queen, playing Debbie in six Mirror Man films, but now it’s 20 years later, she’s over 40, signing memorabilia for money, anxious about aging, and angry that she has never been seen as anything but the final girl. However, when people near Barb start getting murdered, the killer leaving clues from the movie franchise, Barb must fight her way through a real-life slasher film, grow into the role of final girl, or die trying. Pell’s (Her Wicked Roots) second novel is both a love letter to and biting satire of the final girl trope, filled with all the parts fans will demand but including a “pink horror” lens, the emerging subgenre of woman centered stories that are deadly terrifying, fun reads that tackle the sexism of the genre and the world at large head on without missing a horror beat. For fans of meta horror like Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix or the scary, angry, feminist horror of authors like Rachel Harrison and C.J. Leede.

Three Words That Describe This Book: Final Girl Trope, Pink Horror, Conversational Tone

Click here to read a whole lot more. This is Pell's second novel and I am putting her on the MUST BUY list for every book. Her horror is perfect for a public library audience. Her work is thoughtful, has great characters, compelling pacing, and is definitely horror. 

This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell will be published on 10/13/26 by Gallery Books who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

The second book is a titles that I did not have time to review but want to make sure you all know about.

It is the adult novel from a former Summer Scares YA author: American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams. From the publisher's page:

“With its unflinching excavation of our dark past, American Nightmare is a page turner with a message.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Kin 

In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood…

Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare as a child during the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906, when he and his father stood guard over their family home. In the eyes of the mob surging through his neighborhood, Clark sensed this malevolent presence. It was then that the Nightmare took shape, burrowing deep into his mind and feeding on his fear.

Years later, the same evil presence drives Clark to the NAACP’s headquarters in New York City, where he answers an ad seeking light-skinned Black men for dangerous undercover work. As a spy for the NAACP, Clark investigates lynchings, impersonating the very Nightmare that once tormented him.

As Clark descends deeper into this double life, another force rises: a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, finding a foothold in the storied streets of New York City. Among its eager recruits is Sam Cahill—the one man who can see past his disguise. Now Clark must outwit both the living and the dead, as he confronts a past that refuses to stay buried and a future where the act of passing exacts a soul-deep price.

Inspired by the life of civil rights activist Walter White, who passed as a white man to expose the brutality of lynchings from the South to the Midwest, American Nightmare is a gripping historical thriller that reveals the most terrifying monsters aren’t those that go bump in the night but those that walk among us.

I am very excited for this one. American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams comes out next week on 9/15/26 from Crown who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Two great titles, one winner. Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Good luck!

#HorrorForLibrariesGiveaway: Three Anthologies for 1 Winner

Today I have 3 high interest anthologies, 1 finished copy and 2 ARCs. 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.

The last winner was Lisa from PA. Now on to this week's giveaway.

Anthologies are very popular in general, but especially during the Fall when we have more readers who want to give Horror a try. Anthologies are the best way for readers to survey the landscape of a genre, to see a wide variety of styles and voices writing under one umbrella. They also provide a tasting menu of voices familiar and brand new. And if the editor does their job well, readers will finish the book having learned of a few new writers who will be added to their personal to-read pile.

Today I have 3 yet to be released 2026 Horror Anthologies for 1 winner. I highly suggest you add all three of these anthologies to your collections ASAP. They all feature popular authors whose books you have in your collections.

The first one is edited by Ellen Datlow. She is the most decorated and critically acclaimed editor and anthologist in the genre. Datlow crafts anthologies that unfold like a novel, layering stories that build off of each other which adds depth to the reading experience. It is important to note that Datlow has been consciously inclusive in assembling the table of contents for each of her books—and that intentionality (by the field’s top editor no less) has inspired others to follow her lead.

Next week she has a new anthology of all new stories dropping, All Hallow's Eve. From Goodreads:

Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year.

Featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix and many more.

Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when spirits can cross over, and when the boundary between the living and the dead is far, far too thin.

A young boy encounters a woman with an ancient and terrifying link to the holiday, a group of college students attend a Halloween party to die for, and a troubled girl exploits a local urban legend to try and turn her life around.

From America to New Zealand via the rural Romanian wilderness, this anthology explores our worldwide obsession with the spookiest season of the year, when the veil is lifted and the spirits come alive. 

Featuring 19 original stories from bestselling and award-winning masters of the genre, and from Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, this anthology invites you to carve a pumpkin, light the lanterns and welcome in trick or treaters from across the world. With stories by Josh Malerman Lee Murray Rich Larson Clay McLeod Chapman Livia Llewellyn Michael Marshall Smith Stephen Graham Jones Linda D. Addison Christopher Golden Alma Katsu Brian Evenson Siobhan Carroll Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ Theresa DeLucci Garth Nix Jeffrey Ford Richard Kadrey Nathan Ballingrud John Langan

All Hallows' Eve comes out 9/8/26 from Titan Books who have provided this finished hard cover copy for one of you to add to your collections.

Next up is an anthology I reviewed in the August issue of Booklist here. 

Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror

Edited by Cynthia Pelayo

Oct. 2026. 336p. Atria/Primero Sueno, paper, $18 (9781668091944).

First published August 2026 (Booklist).

Critically acclaimed author Pelyao presents a culturally centered, haunting anthology featuring a who’s who of today’s Latiné authors with simultaneous publication in English and Spanish. The 17 stories are as different as the authors themselves. For example, Agustina Bazterrica presents a chilling, psychological, and heartbreaking story of a family’s pain; while Ann Dávila Cardinal’s diaspora story/satire will make readers laugh and gasp; and Lilliam Rivera’s standout, a discomfiting, visceral tale of body horror, anger, and retribution across generations and countries that will remind readers of Stephen Graham Jones. The tales here might stem from an inherited legacy of the horrors of colonialism, narco-violence, immigration, dictatorships, and gender violence, but the universal fear they describe reverberates loudly, screams into readers’ ears, ringing with their unsettling truth, lingering and forcing readers to reckon with what they have just experienced, long after the final page is turned. For all horror readers, this anthology will be especially sought after by the fans of the included authors and those who enjoyed the Never Whistle at Night anthologies.

Three Words That Describe This Book: Haunting, Full Range of Scares, Thought-Provoking

Click here for much more by me about this anthology. Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror comes out on September 29th from Atria/Primero Sueno Press who provided this ARC for me to giveaway to one of you.

Finally, an anthology I am very excited about but did not have time to fit it into my review schedule-- Unearthed: New Horror of Ancient Ruins. edited by Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi. From Goodreads:

Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.

Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.

Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the catacombs, the ruined temples and the monoliths – and drag an ancient evil back into the light.

Featuring stories by  Tananarive Due Christopher Golden Josh Malerman Tim Lebbon Eric LaRocca A.M. Shine Jonathan Maberry Hildur Knútsdóttir Ai Jiang A. G. Slatter Mark Chadbourn Priya Sharma Benjamin Percy V. Castro Gemma Amor Cavan Scott Premee Mohamed Hache Pueyo Steve Toase

Unearthed comes out on  9/15/26 from Titan Books who have provided this ARC to me to give away to one of you.

That's 3 anthologies for 1 lucky winner.

Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck!

No Giveaway Today BUT.....

I will be heading on vacation in a few days so there is no giveaway this week.

However, I have lots of upcoming Horror books for all ages to share today via Shelf Awareness:

Note from the Editors

Welcome to Shelf Awareness: Extra!

Welcome to another edition of Shelf Awareness Extra!, which are special issues that focus on a particular subject and appear once a month. This edition focuses on Halloween, many people's favorite holiday--for booksellers and publishers, too. For a lot more about spooky titles, keep reading!

Click through for lots of upcoming horror goodness, for all ages.  

I am back next week with 3 up coming anthologies for 1 winner. Including a hard cover, finished copy of this.

You can enter anytime. Follow the direction on the most recent giveaway here.

Announcing the Gorgeous Special Edition of WHY I LOVE HORROR

 Details on the general blog here. 

But before you click over, here are some pictures to get you excited.

Click here for details.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Books by Michael Wehunt and Hailey Piper for One winner

Today I have two high interested ARCs of September Horror titles. 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.

The last winner was from Jo from NY. Now on to this week's giveaway.

First up I have the second book by the winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First novel, Michael Wehunt's Nightjars. From my Booklist review of this title: 

Following his award-winning debut, The October Film Haunt, Wehunt plunges readers deep into the mountains of Northern Georgia for an atmospheric, blood soaked, horror-crime hybrid. Luke and his ex-wife Kristin still care for each other; however, Luke’s addiction made their union no longer possible. When a date disappears on Luke, leaving behind a photo of him as a child, with a dead body and masked man in his bedroom, he is shaken, but then it gets worse, as the photos keep coming, more recent now, depicting a bloody Luke posing with murder victims. Simultaneously, exsanguinated bodies are also piling up in the area. Luke’s history of missing memories make him no longer able to trust himself. Told by Luke and Kristin as they fight to save what is left of Luke and protect their daughter from a similar fate, readers are led on a twisty, heart-wrenching, and discomfiting journey, one with plenty of surprises nesting in the woods where the nightjars live. For fans of Coffin Moon by Rosson and Devils Kill Devils by Compton.  

Three Words That Describe This Book: family secrets, extreme tension, horror-crime hybrid

Nightjars comes out on September 29th from St. Martin's Press who provided me with this ARC to give away to one of you.

And second, I have an ARC of one of two books Hailey Piper has out this Fall-- This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want. From the book description: 

A woman, haunted by the disappearance of her sister and best friend thirty years ago uncovers the terrifying urban legend behind the last film they watched together, in this chilling riff on the cursed film subgenre by the Bram Stoker award-winning author of Queen of Teeth.

Perfect for fans of Gretchen Felker-Martin and Andrew Joseph White. I

n November 1994, three girls visit their local movie theater to see an obscure film. Only one of them is ever seen again.

Thirty years later, Val McQueen has never forgotten the day she lost her little sister and best friend, but she’s closed the curtain on it, certain she’s moved on despite her parents’ resentment and hounding by true crime enthusiasts.

That is until a stranger’s murder brings it all screaming back—a terror she’s tried to tell herself is only a movie. Enlisting the help of cinephile and former classmate Roxie de la Fontaine to find the film, Val soon realizes that hers is not the only pursuit. Someone, or something involved with the movie is on the hunt, too…

… For the girl who got away all those years ago.

Since Piper has 2 books coming out this Fall, I could not review both. I have the next Piper book read and the review turned in. (More soon including a giveaway.) I do not have a review for this one, but my colleague, Lila Denning, had this starred review which you all can read for free here.

This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want comes out on September 15th from Titan books who provided me with this ARC to give away to one of you.

These two advanced copies are available this week to one winner.

Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Good Luck!

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: 4 Book Creature Publishing Prize Pack Including a NEW Gwendolyn Kiste Novella

Today I have a four book prize pack, for one winner, from Creature Publishing, including one book I reviewed for Booklist Online back in June and a new Gwendolyn Kiste for which I have turned in a review and have extensive notes for here. To learn more about Creature Publishing click here as they were my featured small press for 31 Days of Horror in 2025. [Side note: I am compiling the essays for this year's featured publisher right now.] 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.

The last winner was from Molly from GA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

I have four ARCs for one winner from Creature Publishing. Again, to learn more about them, click here to see the feature I did on this small press last October, including Why I Love Horror essays by some of the authors included here.

Of the four books I am giving away, I have written Booklist reviews for two of them. As I mentioned  above, one is live already and the other is being published next month. 

First up, Witches of the Wheel by Lindsay Merbaum. Click here to access my review and detailed notes. But to give you a quick taste, here are my three words that describe this book: conversational storytelling, atmospheric, lesbians/goddesses/ witches

Next up, In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts by Gwendolyn Kiste. I have turned in the review but it is not live yet. However, you can still access my detailed notes here. And, one the review is live, I will link to it on the blog in that Goodreads review. Here are my three words that describe this book: book about a book, immersive and visceral, reclaiming forgotten women (especially discarded daughters). 

The other two books for which I am giving ARCs away to this one lucky reader are The Patron Saint of White Menageries by Lauren T. Davila and Woodfeast by Meg Ripley. I highly recommend all 4 titles.

And in my October column for LJ I will have one more Creature title to highlight and give away. Here is a preview of that.

But for now, 4 books for one winner. 

Thank you to Creature for the ARCs.

Coming up in a few weeks I have a finished, hard cover copy of Ellen Datlow's latest anthology (to be paired with 2 other anthology ARCs) and so much more. 

Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Good luck!

#Horror For Libraries Giveaway: Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones Plus a Bonus Book

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for the foreseeable future. This week I am featuring a huge title which I gave a starred review in Booklist last month, and another title I am super excited about but did not have time to review. 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.

The last winner was from Lisa from PA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

I am just going to start with the first book because you all want to read it and there are NOT a lot of paper ARCs circulating.

STAR

Off the Reservation

Stephen Graham Jones

Oct. 2026. 416p. Saga, $32 (9781668225127).

First published July 2026 (Booklist).

When digging into the darkest corners of history, no one is spared from the monsters unearthed. Set five years after the action of The Only Good Indians, Jones’ companion novel begins with one of its only survivors, Nate Yellow Tail, severely injured after robbing the home of a wealthy “Summer Indian.” While in the hospital, Nurse Seine recruits Nate to join a rag-tag group of Indians, herself, a mute young man dressed like a priest, and the RV owner, actively grieving the death of her husband and sons, on a quest from their Montana reservation to Pennsylvania’s infamous Carlisle Indian School to repatriate the bones of a murdered Blackfeet boy. However, gathering the bones is only half the story, as something evil is determined to follow them home, unless Nate can make his own last stand. A hilarious road trip novel, a fresh, non-religious take on the possession trope, a visceral and vulnerable character study, laying bare a 360 degree view of the horrors of being Native in America. More than the sum of its perfectly constructed parts, this is a horror novel where every detail works together, deepening the emotional impact for all. For fans of Iglesias’ The Devil Takes You Home and the possession trope as reimagined by Cordova in Monstrilio. 

Three Words That Describe This Book: immersive, non-Christian possession, visceral/venerable/hilarious

Click here to read a lot more by me about this book. Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones comes out on October 13th from Saga Press (also my publisher) who sent me this copy to give away to one of you.

Since I have your attention I wanted to alert you to another book coming out this October, The Porcelain Sisters by Daryl Gregory. From the publisher's website:

A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant—and literally porcelain—sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. In his newest adventure, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory (We Are All Completely Fine) delivers a dizzying, darkly funny, and surprisingly poignant romp through the horrors of sisterhood.

“The Porcelain Sisters will grip you from the first page and stay with you long after the brilliant finale.” —Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia 

Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her sister, Isabel—who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel’s porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante: the Dollmaker.  

The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Le Clan: Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry, haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons—one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat—and their human familiars. Along the way, the sisters learn that they’ve been lied to their entire lives. Their mother wasn’t just a homemaker who died in a car accident, she was a legendary enforcer in the Le Clan des Sorcières.

While Ruth has to come out of her shell and deal with her own latent powers, Isabel has to grow up in a body that can’t grow. Together they’ll have to outwit and outfight everyone to claim their birthright.

The Porcelain Sisters comes out on October 27th from Tachyon Publications who sent me this copy for me to give away to one of you.

Two books, one winner. Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck!

#HorrorForLIbrariesGiveaway: ARCs of Eric LaRocca and Alma Katsu for 1 Lucky Winner

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for the foreseeable future. This week I am featuring 2 titles are featured in the July issue of Library Journal which contains my Genre Preview article. And which I reviewed in Booklist here and here. 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 from Lisa from PA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Today, I am offering 1 lucky winner two high demand ARCs. First up a novel to which I gave a starred review in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.

STAR

We Turn Gruesome At Night Burnt Sparrow Book 2

By Eric LaRocca

Ten years after the events of We Are Always Tender With Our Dead readers return to the blighted, rotten town of Burnt Sparrow, NH. Rupert and Gladys are still trapped within the walls of End House, unable to even poke a finger over the threshold without their skin unraveling. The claustrophobia and anxiety are already intense, when one day their regular grocery delivery comes with an anonymous confession letter addressed to Rupert. The details of that letter are shocking, but they also provide the spark that blows the story wide open, allowing Rupert and Gladys the chance to taste freedom. However, once they cross this threshold, they can never go back to the way things were and the horror of this both discomfiting and titillating. LaRocca holds readers rapt, engrossing them in a tale of layered depravities, confident they will be unable to look away. An exemplary middle book of a trilogy; a strong stand-alone story that plants the seed of the finale to come; a tale that honors the history of the Gothic but gives it new life by injecting it with the alluring catharsis of transgressive horror; for fans of Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, and Poppy Z. Brite. 

Three Words That Describe This Book: crossing thresholds, extreme horror meets Gothic, engrossing

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. We Turn Gruesome at Night by Eric LaRocca comes out on 9/8/26 from Titan Books who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Next up, a great book by a high demand author:

Incarnate

By Alma Katsu 

Katsu (Fiend) returns with a modern retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray that hits very close to home. Dorothy lands her dream job with an AI meets motion capture effects company, but her destructive need to be popular rears its head when she illegally accesses their servers to create the gorgeous influencer, Isabella, passing her off as a real person. Her work gets a few likes before attracting the attention of someone offering to make all of her dreams come true, for an unnamed price. Dorothy agrees and her life changes overnight, as her world quickly goes to unimaginable heights before spiraling out of control leading to horrors that pile upon horrors. Uncomfortable at every turn (including gnarly body horror), the real terror here comes when readers inevitably interrogate their own social media choices. Think the film The Substance, but with more substance. For readers who enjoy Faustian bargains like All's Well by Awad or We Sold Our Souls by Hendrix as well as the AI implications explored by Tingle in Bury Your Gays. 

 

Three Words That Describe This Book: retelling, squirm inducing, deal with the devil

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Incarnate by Alma Katsu comes out on 9/22/26 from GP Putnam and Son's who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Both books, one winner.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway is Off This Week

I have been giving away 2 books a week for over a month, but this week, the giveaway is on pause. Back next week with 2 HUGE titles for 1 winner and then 2 books a week for the foreseeable future.

2026 Horror Genre Preview is Live

Click on over to RA for All to read it and get all the links. Or click on the image below.

Also, always head over to my Archive of Becky's Lists, Articles, and Presentations for a great cache of article and more. It is always in the right gutter, page list.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: ARCs of Rachel Harrison and Scott Hawkins for 1 winner

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for the foreseeable future. This week I am featuring 2 titles are featured in the July issue of Library Journal which contains my Genre Preview article. And which I reviewed in Booklist here and here. 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 from John from WA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Today (and next week), I am offering 1 lucky winner to high demand ARCs. First up one of my favorite books of 2026. I gave this novel a starred review in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.

Kiss Slay Replay

By Rachel Harrison Sept. 2026. 336p. 

Weddings can be horror, especially for Willa, just a few months out from cancelling her own wedding, reuniting with her college besties (and her ex), for a wedding at a former summer camp deep in the Hudson Valley. But at this wedding, the horror is all too real as a masked man goes on a murderous rampage, killing everyone, including Willa. That is, until she wakes up in her own bed to find it was all a nightmare. Or was it? The day she just dreamed of appears to be happening again. Bestseller Harrison (Play Nice) doubles down on what is expected from a time loop tale – intense unease, existential terror, deep character development, and dark humor– while also presenting original and compelling twists. Harrison puts Willa through hell; however she will need to push past her own anxiety and depression to truly find herself because the only way out is for her to find a way through. Clearly for fans of time loop stories, but don’t pigeon hole this brilliant novel because it is also a tale that actively investigates the horror genre itself much like I Was a Teenaged Slasher by Jones or Lucky Day by Tingle.

Three Words That Describe This Book: time loop, character driven, wholly original 

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison comes out on 9/8/26 from Berkely who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

The second title is a long awaited book by the author of a modern cult classic which I also reviewed here in the July 2026 issue of Booklist.

Blacktail 

by Scott Hawkins 

Ten years after the publication of The Library of Mount Char, Hawkins is back with another original and riveting, horror-fantasy hybrid, but this time, featuring animal narrators. After Blacktail, a young wolf, watches humans destroy everything he holds dear, word of his strength, anger, and blood-thirsty actions reach Old Kitty Mother, a feline witch whose power and influence extend around the world. She channels Blacktail's unique gifts, sending him on a quest to reconnect the animal world with their Forest God, who has forsaken them. This is eco-horror at its most primal and visceral. The various animal narrators make it very clear not only how horrible humans are, but also show how far they are all willing to go to get their revenge. Hawkins pulls no punches, and at times, Blacktail's violent choices are intensely discomfiting. However, this is also a mythical journey following a flawed but sympathetic loner hero who meets new creatures along his way, hears their stories, before moving on toward his destiny. Fans of Adam’s Watership Down who can handle the blood thirsty vengeance in Malerman’s Pearl will devour this one.  

Three Words That Describe This Book: animal point of view, dark fantasy quest/journey, nature is not happy with us

Please use this link to read all of my thoughts on this book. Blacktail by Scott Hawkins comes out on 9/1/26 from Crown who provided this ARC for me to give away to one of you.

Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Both books, one winner.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: LJ Horror Preview Special

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for the foreseeable future. This week I am featuring 2 titles are featured in the July issue of Library Journal which contains my Genre Preview article. It is in the magazine now and it will be available online 7/15/26 [link added 7/16/26]. 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 from Kristin from MI. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

First up I have a book I gave a starred review to in the June issue of Library Journal-- Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst Jr:

Three Words That Describe This Book: Indigenous Horror, Range of Scares, Unapologetic

Spending more than a year on the bestseller list, and sent into 20+ printings, the success of Never Whistle at Night cannot be exaggerated. That first volume leaned more heavily on atmosphere, cautiously testing the market’s appetite for Indigenous horror, but this time the editors are unafraid to lean on the horror with a full throttle because “Back for Blood,” is not just a title, it’s a promise. Some readers will come looking for new stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Tommy Orange, or Ramona Emerson, but half the stories came from an open call, and it is those new voices whose stories are among the most memorable here. Beginning with visceral body horror, moving through stories featuring werewolves, found footage, and Indigenous monsters (such as a tulpa and “That One”), to stories that contemplate the horrors of racism, addiction, and the murder of Indigenous women, leading to an unforgettable science fiction-horror hybrid, a tale that reverberates its terror across time, Hawk and Van Alst Jr lay bare their commitment to unapologetically represent the full range of Indigenous horror voices. The result is a captivating, chilling, and menacing anthology perfectly suited for readers of all genres.

Verdict: The rare sequel that is better than its original. Suggest to fans of any horror stories or anthologies featuring non-dominant culture authors such as Out There Screaming or Our Shadows Have Claws.

The July issue features an interview I did with Shane and Ted who are also part of Summer Scares this year with the first anthology in this series. 

Thank you to Vintage for the ARC I am giving away today.

I am pairing this title with a book I am very excited about, a title I highlighted in the preview's debut section-- An Immaculate Deception by Isabela Livino:

A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.

1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road.

Madalena awakens in Leandro’s sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there . . . but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He’s silent. Obsessed. Always watching.

Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something—or someone—ghastly in the reflection.

Leandro is unraveling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she’s living in.

This title was also included in Booklist's Read N Rave during ALA Annual. Thank you to Dutton for the ARC.

So two books from my upcoming Horror Genre Preview for 1 lucky winner. Enter now and you are entered going forward.

Good luck.

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Poisoned Pen Prize Pack

Today I have two books for 1 winner. In fact, I will be offering two books for one winner for at least the next 5 weeks (probably more). This week I am featuring 2 titles that are perfect for libraries but I did not have time to fit them into my review schedule. 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 from Gary from IL. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Poisoned Pen is an imprint of Sourcebooks that focuses on horror. They are putting out a solid slate of titles for horror readers all year long. Like Sourcebooks proper, every single one of their books is a perfect add for public library collections. They think about the reader experience first, full stop. And at libraries this is important.

I don't have time to review all of their books myself though. Last week, I featured a giveaway of The Burn Line, one of their title coming out this summer. But today, I want to feature 2 more, titles I did not personally review but which I am urging you to order for your libraries. I will present them in release order below.

First up Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold:

One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even.

When Nora, Ruby, and Cham discover that they've each been dating the same man, what starts as outrage quickly spirals into a plot for revenge. Together they hatch a plan to lure their boyfriend to a romantic getaway in a secluded cabin at the top of a snow-covered mountain.

Only what was meant to be harmless payback soon takes a chilling turn when their not-so-adoring boyfriend is found dead in the cabin.

Stranded and snowed in, the women begin to look at each other with increasing suspicion. And as tensions rise, hidden motives come to light. To survive, each woman must confront her own demons as they fight to uncover if one of them is the killer, or if something else lurks in the freezing wilderness, waiting to pick them off one by one.

I did read and review Arnold's debut How to Survive a Horror Story last year here. Arnold is a great readalike for your fans of Craig DiLouie, Christina Henry, Darcy Coates, and Simon St. James to name a few. Obviously you have an audience for Arnold. 

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold comes out soon-- July 14th. Make sure you have out already on order.

Second, a lesser known author but one you should definitely have in your collections. And by the Sea Gave Up the Dead by William Friend:

For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel following a young woman's return to her family's crumbling chateau to stay with her aging aunt - but grief, mystery, and something undead haunts her family, and soon, a dark history will repeat itself.

"In the woods... between the trees..."

Morwenna knows she needs to visit Bethan. Her aunt is wasting away in the family's crumbling chateau by the French seaside, where she's lived alone since the mysterious disappearance of her husband. The locals claim Bethan is responsible, though Morwenna knows her aunt is simply declining and in desperate need of company.

Grief lives in that house, and Morwenna has avoided it for years. Until a disturbing phone call from Barbara finally pushes her to act. So she packs up her children and new partner to stay for a week.

But the chateau changes people. Old magic has seeped into the ground. The village remembers what happened at the grand old house, centuries ago. They remember who died, and what came back. Soon, this place will leave its mark on Morwenna's family. And she cannot escape the feeling that, unless she learns the truth about what happened to her uncle, something ancient and evil will rise, and a dark history will repeat itself at the chateau.

This book has some stellar blurbs here. It is for fans of Grief Horror, Gothic Horror, and Sea Soaked Horror (a current big trend).  And by the Sea Gave Up the Dead by William Friend comes out on August 18th so you have time to add this to carts.

Those are the 2 books for 1 winner for this week. Thanks to Sourcebooks for the ARCs. 

Enter now and you are entered going forward. Going forward I have many of the THE MOST ANTICIPATED HORROR coming out in the next few month going out to my winners. You have to be in it to win it.

Before I go, also check out today's post on RA for All which is about the second half of 2026 ARC Party podcast preview. 

Good luck!