Conditions may apply. You must be 18+ to enter this preorder campaign. US only. Promotion ends 8/13/24. For full Official Rules, see bottom of page.

“Debut author Anderson crafts a truly unsettling gothic horror story. Horror fans will be rattled.”—Publishers Weekly

“Desolate, heartrending, and genuinely scary.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

Submit your preorder receipt to receive a Sunshine Corral Hotel keychain and signed bookplate!*

*Keychain and bookplate available while quantities last. Please note that it may take a few weeks after the preorder campaign closes for your items to be shipped.

How do I submit my receipt?

Send Quirk Books a photo of your The Unmothers receipt using the Google form linked below. (Note: please make sure your full name, book title, and the date purchased are all visible on your receipt.)

If you have trouble uploading your receipt to the Google form, please send an email to [email protected] with the requested information and include [UNMOTHERS Preorder Campaign] in the subject line.

We will send you your items once the campaign is closed after August 13, 2024.

All receipts must be dated August 6, 2024 or earlier and submitted by 11:59pm EST on August 13, 2024. Please note that it may take a few weeks after the campaign closes for your items to be shipped.

About the Book

In this raw and lyrical folk horror novel, a journalist sent to a small town begins to unravel a dark secret that the women of the town have been keeping for generations.

Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband. After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards town of Raeford to investigate a clearly ridiculous rumor: that a horse has given birth to a healthy, human baby boy.

When Marshall arrives in Raeford, she finds an insular town that is kinder to the horses they are famous for breeding than to their own people. But when two horribly mangled bodies are discovered in a field—one a horse, one a human—she realizes that there might be a real story here.

As she’s pulled deeper into the town and its guarded people, her sense of reality is tipped on its head. Is she losing her grip? Or is this impossible story the key to a dark secret that has haunted the women of Raeford for generations?

Unbearably tense and utterly gripping, this atmospheric tale of female rage, bodily autonomy, and generational trauma hails the arrival of a masterful storyteller.

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Praise for The Umothers

“Nauseatingly tense and crushingly insightful. This book represents an absolutely vital entry into the horror canon.”—Sarah Gailey, nationally best-selling author of The Echo Wife and Just Like Home

“At the crossroads of True Detective and Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder, this equine Wicker Man manifests a mood equal parts majestic and terrifying, tragic and sublime.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

“Leslie Anderson writes with searing honesty and a palpable compassion for her characters in this story about the terrifying ways people cling to—and weaponize—belief systems. The Unmothers is riveting; the evil it depicts is insidious and real.”—Anne Heltzel, author of Just Like Mother

“The Unmothers is a grimly beautiful novel about the terrifying collective power of women’s sublimated hope, grief, and rage.”—Emily C. Hughes, author of Horror for Weenies and former editor of TorNightfire.com

“The Unmothers is brilliant. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, terrifying, and sharply intelligent.”—Sam Rebelein, author of Edenville

OFFICIAL RULES

IMPORTANT: Please read these Official Rules before entering the The Unmothers Preorder Campaign (the “Preorder Campaign”), presented by Quirk Books (“Sponsor”). By entering the Preorder Campaign, you agree to the terms of these Official Rules. These Official Rules shall govern in the event of any inconsistency with other Preorder Campaign-related materials.

RETAIL ONLY. THIS CAMPAIGN REQUIRES PURCHASE FOR ENTRY.

ELIGIBILITY: The Preorder Campaign is open to residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and Canada who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. All federal, state, and local regulations apply. LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED. Employees of Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, and agencies, and their immediate family members and persons living in their household are not eligible to enter the Preorder Campaign.

ENTRY PERIOD: The Preorder Campaign begins at 4:00 PM (ET) on Friday, June 21, 2024 and ends at 11:59 PM (ET) on Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

HOW TO ENTER: Online entry only. Enter by completing and submitting the entry form as instructed at https://forms.gle/zVYppgAUBj2qvAUHA. If you have trouble uploading your receipt to the Google form, please send an email to [email protected] with the requested information and include [UNMOTHERS Preorder Campaign] in the subject line.

In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address used for entry. Automated entries are prohibited, and any use of automated devices will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry of information by entrants; lost or late entries or transmissions; interrupted or unavailable network, server, or other connections; scrambled transmissions or other errors or problems of any kind whether mechanical, human, or electronic, technical malfunctions of any computer hardware, software, or any combinations thereof; or problems associated with any virus or any other damage caused to entrants’ systems. Incomplete or illegible entries will be voided. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.

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PRIZE:

Every entrant who proves they have preordered a copy of Such a Bad Influence by June 4, 2024 will receive the following, while quantities last:
1. A Sunshine Corral Hotel keychain (quantity: 200)
2. A signed bookplate (quantity: 250)

Quirk Books will be checking receipts and will deem entrants as disqualified if requested information is missing from entry. Please note that it may take a few weeks after the campaign closes on August 13, 2024 for items to be shipped.

Actual value of prize may vary. No transfer or cash or other substitution of all or part of a prize is permitted, except by Sponsor, which reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute the prize or prize component with another of comparable or greater value. Any and all taxes on the prize will be the responsibility of the entrants. Sponsor shall not be responsible for any cancellations, delays, postponements, substitutions, changes in services, damage in the delivery of the prize, and/or loss of any prize in connection with delivery of the prize via mail. In the event that there is an insufficient number of eligible entries, Sponsor reserves the right not to award the prizes.

Entrants may also be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release. Noncompliance with these conditions may result in forfeiture of the Prize, and Sponsor reserves the right to select alternate entrants (from other eligible, qualified entries received before the deadline) in such circumstance. If entrant notification of the Prize is returned as undeliverable, Sponsor may, at its discretion, select an alternate entrant.

DISCLAIMERS/LICENSE: By competing in this Preorder Campaign and/or accepting the prize, entrants agree that Sponsor, and its respective parent companies, assigns, subsidiaries and affiliates, and advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies and all of their respective employees, officers and directors will have no liability whatsoever, and will be held harmless by entrants for any liability for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind to person and property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the acceptance, possession, misuse, or use of the prizes, or participation in this Preorder Campaign.

To the extent allowed by law, participation in the Preorder Campaign in any way, or acceptance of, or participation in, any prize constitutes each entrant’s consent for, and grant of a non-exclusive, sub-licensable and assignable license to Sponsor to use, publish, post or display entrant’s name, social media handles, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, statements, as submitted in connection with the Preorder Campaign, and prize information, regardless of whether altered, or used alone or with other material, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, for promotional, advertising, and publicity purposes in any medium now known or later discovered, worldwide and in perpetuity, without review or approval, and without further notice, payment, or consideration of any kind. All rights, consents and licenses granted to Sponsor under these Official Rules and/or any Affidavit of Eligibility and Release will survive the termination of this Preorder Campaign.

RIGHT TO MODIFY OR CANCEL: Sponsor may cancel, suspend or modify the Preorder Campaign or any part of it, in any way, if Sponsor determines in its sole discretion that the Preorder Campaign is not capable of executing as Sponsor intended, or that any error, omission, fraud, technical failure, tampering, computer virus, or other factor, technical or otherwise, beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control, impairs or may impair Sponsor’s ability to properly conduct the Preorder Campaign, subject to any applicable law or regulation.

In the event of any inconsistency between these Official Rules and any disclosure or other statement contained in any Preorder Campaign-related materials, these Official Rules will govern.

DISPUTES: Any dispute arising from this Preorder Campaign will be determined according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, without reference to its conflict of law principles, and by entering the entrants consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Philadelphia County and agree that such courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all such disputes.

SPONSOR: Quirk Books, 215 Church Street, Philadelphia PA 19106