Third and Last Protean Depravity Book Giveaway of the Year

End of the year also means deciding which books to take along into the new year and which ones can find their way to new owners who will appreciate them more than I do.

Before they wander into the second hand section of the Otherland Bookstore or the phone booth little free library at the end of my street, I'm giving you guys the choice to take any of the books in the picture you may want to have. 👉

These are mostly review copies, but this time I included a couple of books I actually bought years ago, but never have read, and presumably never will read. It's better and only fair someone who will really read takes them. Please don't hesitate at all and seize the opportunity!

We do it like this:

If you see a book you'd like to have, please send a mail to proteandepravity@gmail.com, and include the title of the book, your name (or any name you want to give) and whether you want to pick up the book from the Otherland Bookstore or Hammett Bookstore.

I will then leave the book(s) in the pick-up sections of any of the bookstores under the name you gave, and send you a mail that you can pick them up as soon as they are ready. Then you can go there and say "I'd like to pick up a book for (your name)". That's it. I'm not giving a deadline this time, but you can write until, like end of 2024, and get it if the book is still available.

P.S. I'm also totally up to do a Mission Impossible kind of transfer, I have a trench coat and sun glasses and I can put the books in a brown manila folder and leave it on any trash bin in Berlin if you give me the address.

So the giveaway books are:

👉 A Sick Gray Laugh and Mr. Suicide by Nicole Cushing - I have read segments of Cushing's writing for review purposes a couple of years ago and decided back then that this is an author I'd like to further explore. Unluckily, this never happened and right now I feel like I have too much else on my plate to discover this author, to enjoy who, I think, you need to be in a certain frame of mind. Both copies are largely unread.

👉 Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite - I enjoyed Brite's Exquisite Corpse, a queer serial killer extreme horror, which tests every boundary imaginable. So I also bought his vampire book, but I'm really not into vampires, to be honest, so I feel like it's time to give this book up and make some space in my shelves for a new book.

👉 Tentacle by Rita Indiana was all the rage at the Otherland about five or six years ago. So I bought it. The themes it deals with are "climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art", so if you think that's your jam, please grab it. Unread copy.

👉 Nigerians in Space and After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun, again, see books above, which were purchased due to my greed and overconfidence in my reading capacities. Unread copies.

👉 If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio - This one I'm giving away not because I have given up on reading the book, but because I think that the story would best work as an audiobook for me.

👉Warriors, ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois was an attempt at reading Grimdark Fantasy for my Darkness Challenge, for which I ended up reading A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall, and the genre isn't really mine that I would want to read this anyway.

👉 Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III. Dubbed  "the ultimate werewolf bromance" and "a toxic cocktail of An American Werewolf in London, Old School, and Bubba Ho-Tep", which was fun, but I nevertheless don't have to have in my library.

👉 The Underhistory by Kaaron Warren. Recently reviewed for the Otherland, it was a nice enough story, which unfortunately didn't engage me very much, but maybe you?

👉 Strange Ink by Garry Kemble. Yet another greed-buy from years ago. Tattoo horror.

👉 Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste. A feminist tale of female characters from your favorite Gothic books, Jane Eyre and Dracula, which will make you reconsider the way you have been reading them.

👉 You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade. This year's Bram Stoker nominee for best short stories, I was surprised to find out that I can't with Cade's writing.

👉 Apart in the Dark by Ania Ahlborn. Two novellas from the Queen of Extreme Horror writing for once regular horror. The Pretty Ones is the story of a wallflower being bullied in times of serial killer Son of Sam, while I Call Upon Thee is a haunting/possession story which can chill your spine.