#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: The Way It Haunted Him by Laura R. Samotin

Today on the giveaway I have a finished copy of a book that I reviewed in the May 2026 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 Hadley from NY. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

The Way It Haunted Him by Laura R. Samotin comes out June 9th from Titan Books. From my Booklist review:

Michael arrives at the largest Judaic Studies archive in America a physically and mentally broken man. He is barely recovered from the accident that left his boyfriend, Noah dead and himself severely injured. Grief and guilt have consumed him, but he hopes to find closure and forgiveness completing Noah’s research on Mazzekin (household demons from Jewish mythology). After the recent death of the institute's founder, Michael is greeted by his grandson, Jacob, and the two have an immediate and intoxicating connection. Told with a slow burn pacing that enhances the research based plot and Michael’s character development as a serious academic, readers will dig in the archives with Michael, interact with demons, watch him fall in love and celebrate as he finds his truth, even if that truth is extremely unsettling. A solid example of the emerging Horroromace subgenre and a grownup option for readers who loved theYA novel When The Angels Left the Old County by Lamb or the academic Horror research and queer romance of A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper

Three Words That Describe This Book: Jewish Folklore, Horroromance, slow burn

Thanks to Titan Books, I have a finished copy of this upcoming title that you can add to your collections immediately.

Remember, when you enter once you are entered going forward.

Good Luck! 

#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: The Dorians by Nick Cutter

Today on the giveaway I have a bound manuscript of a book that I reviewed in the May 2026 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 Laura from MA. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Best-selling author Nick Cutter has a brand new book out May 19th and I had this review of it in the May 2026 issue of Booklist:

The Dorians

by Nick Cutter

At its core, all horror is about death, but in his latest Cutter challenges readers to directly confront living, aging, and dying. Fred (78), awaiting assisted suicide, accepts a last-minute offer to participate in Dr Marsh’s experiment to reverse the aging process by merging the regenerative powers of jellyfish with the human body. Told with an omniscient narration, making it very clear that things are not going to go well, while also allowing readers to get into the heads of each character, including the 5 “subjects,” this is a gripping, original, and existentially terrifying story. Overt nods to well-known stories such as Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Jurassic Park allow the unease to increase organically as readers get swept up in the people, the drama, and the scientific wonder, until they find themselves stuck in its tendrils, facing the horror on the page and their own mortality. For fans of retellings in the vein of Unwieldy Creatures by Tsai or the immersive realism of SF-horror such as in Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Tremblay.

Three Words That Describe This Book: Frankenstein retelling, gripping, immersive. existential terror

You can click here to see more from me about this book. It is most similar to The Troop and The Queen by him, but please note, this book is way less visceral than most of his books. It is terrifying though, maybe in a way that is more real than anything he has written before. Again, more here. 

The copy I have is not an Advanced Reader Copy. It is a bound galley, which is a slightly earlier version of a physical advanced copy. It is a bound word document basically. Just so you are aware.

Thank you to Gallery Books for getting me something to read (and then giveaway) early enough for my early March review deadline.

Enter now to win this book and you are entered going forward.

Good luck to all!