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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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