#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!