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What is my style of booktube? A booktube identity, as it were. A really good question to which I ask: is horror a style? I mean, on the surface level you could say there is a horror aesthetic that many fans embrace, and skulls often find their place in our decor. Horror novels and being a horror reader may not, however, be as obvious - especially when our bookshelves when only containing books look a lot like any other genre fan. So, for a little fun thinkpiece, we delve into six questions about what sort of booktube channel we have here. Questions discussed here are::1. What do you want your channel to be known for?2. What content will people find on your channel?3. What is the most represented genre of books?4. What book are you known for championing?5. What author is regularly featured on your channel?6. What can people expect in the future? (reveal some exciting plans)7. Tag people and state 'what you know them for?'. (wherein I just leave this an open tag)I watched this over at Reading This Life - Revealing My BookTube Identity: What I'm Known For #tag #booktube Revealing My BookTube Identity✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Twenty-seven books are coming out or are out already!

The list includes two I am reading now, one I will absolutely be buying as soon as it drops in June, and two new books from horror royalty, Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates.

I will likely do a new partner pick poll in May so some of these will make an appearance! All these and more are listed on https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror so be sure to click through for more after the show.

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Like a dark and twisted Anne of Green Gables, this book was a welcome addition for me; and very well written for a debut novel. I was happily surprised at how much I related to the very odd and “unlikable” main character Ada Byrd. There was a great balance of late-Victorian references and modern sensibility, as well as a cozy atmosphere created by the diary style of the book. The ideas of intimate desire, reckless abuse and longing for friendship were so blurred at times, that there was a lovely sort of delirium created for the reader which mirrored the iceberg tip of the madness forming in Ada.

Absolutely beautiful reading in Grey Dog, by Elliott Gish. I'd wanted to read this and was so pleased when ECW reached out with a review copy ~ thank you, Claire! While perusing catalogs of new books coming out Grey Dog caught my eye because of the contradictory nature of its cover. I was hoping that it would have something to do with sort of a body horror or some animalistic nature transformation and I wasn't exactly right although there is some sort of body horror... if you count the use of dead animals and a little skull within the story. The stark nature of what almost looks like a woodcut lent itself to the description of this book taking place in the 1900s so I caught a “botanical dark academia” flavour just from the illustration on the front.Much to my delight the author is from the East Coast and did find inspiration in Lucy Maud Montgomery and the Anne of Green Gables, so if you ever wanted that in horror form, this is one for you!This is the debut novel by Elliott Gish and I am looking forward to more. Pick up Grey Dog here https://amzn.to/3UgdlXeFrom the back cover copy: “The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd ― spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist ― accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbours, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past ― riddled with grief and shame ― has never seemed so far away...”✮✮✮✮✮✮

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While I am not in the habit of posting poor reviews, I wanted to talk about these three books - even if I didn't like them much. I’ve rarely posted reviews of books that were not for me mostly because I chose narrowly from a narrow genre: horror. It is not to say they were poorly written at all, they are all good. I had waited for Waif and am so happy to own a copy; Nineteen Little Stab Wounds was a delightful find; My Throat an Open Grave is just a wonderfully complete package from pillar to post and beautifully written.

They are all dark, twisty, horrific or weird. But... They were just not for me at all.

Before I get too deep into that: here is the link to the radio drama version of Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner https://www.zbs.org/audio/Sticks.mp3

Now, be it the recency, or the fact that I wanted to like these books so much - I also still want to share them because I know they do and will have fans!

Especially My Throat and Open Grave. Biblical connotations of the title aside, it was a Puritan nightmare! It's a really beautifully written book and beautifully bound.

The one review I did edit heavily was for My Throat an Open Grave where I felt I was reading a subtweet for a hundred pages or heavily disguised Christian propaganda. It was a strange feeling because they have teen troubles that are not resolved in a wholesome way, the outcome is the opposite of an after-school special, and the whole problem started because of a cult-like Christian town. I am still not sure why I felt I was being sold snake oil throughout. On the other side of that, I felt the pandering to angsty teens was a little over the top and something I thought we had left behind over a decade ago. I will say the twist was unique and I loved how revenge played a big part in the first big resolution here, but I still felt at odds with the central theme as I came away with ‘women are bad and you should feel bad’ when I am sure the opposite was intended.

Anyhow! I'll be reading a few great books to come, and The Haunting of Velkwood! Thank you to everyone who voted!

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My preorder, book of the month, and review copy horror novel stash had built up to eight books since November. So, here we are at the end of the month with a little unboxing. This also marks the end of my read-what-you-own challenge. I'll be updating that more deeply in another video as I did learn a lot over the last few months. I hope to incorporate more reading from my shelves and less book buying going forward, for sure, but in a subtle way. Here we have some excellent books! A patron pick that bookworms voted on - thank you, everyone! That is 'My Throat an Open Grave' by Tori Bovalino and is available here : https://amzn.to/3ThO4LR✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Disturbing books are so often synonymous with horror fiction. While there are classics, nonfiction, memoirs and other genres that are 'disturbing' I've found horror tends to populate the tops and bottoms of these iceberg images that are popular online. Is there a level below, sinking deeper than the murky depths? I would say there is...I recommend In A Lonely Place https://amzn.to/3OXLDM5 for those who want to remain in the top two levels of books like this. There is the original version (I finally found it again!) of the image here https://imgur.com/a/3Y6UB5L as was posted by one 'shyplasterlord' on reddit a few years ago. It was in a thread on hundreds of them, but this iceberg floated to the top as it were :) For those interested in the PDF that goes along with the Degree of Horror video, it is here: https://nightface.ca/Peever-Writing-Horror.pdf and the video itself is here: https://youtu.be/vdt9il9zoks✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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I am culling the shelf in this video. Some of these I liked and want to pass on, some were not for me and one... I did not even read. Most un-haul videos feature tens of books, or over a hundred. I simply don't buy books like that I suppose, and have six to talk about. These are not slam reviews either, but honest points as to why I am setting these books free, to be hunted by others in the wild. Also, my progress on James Patterson's 'Virgin', a release day for 'All These Steps Lead Down' by Nelson W. Pyles, and appreciation for Writing Fiction, the podcast Regina and James host https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/writing-fiction/id1683638929 ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Pick up a copy here: https://amzn.to/48OdWoa - I may stick to pronouncing it Say-Guhr! I've heard a few interviews since and this is how it is said almost always when people speak with him. If this isn't a nouveau gothic, I don't want to know what is. Truly. I had a lot of fun with this and if you are not having fun with fiction then... The title of this book and the cover combined caught my eye. I'm not a huge fan of this orangish red and blue color combination but I do like a book with a house on the cover. The Only One Left as a title evokes a sort of gothic feel, some sort of familicide perhaps had gone on and that turned out to be true. The front cover with its colors evoked the title of a short story from ages ago ‘Orange is for Anguish Blue for Insanity’ and I figured this would have to do with some sort of perhaps unreliable narrator which wasn't exactly the case. But be that as it may, the cover and the title of this book along with some of the pedigree of the author did its work to entice me to read it. I'd never read any Riley Sager and I figured this would be a good spot to start. Will I read more Riley Sager? Maybe. I have already been tempted!✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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I am maybe 10 books into the read what you own challenge as of recording, and 12 books in by the time I posted it, so basically half way! ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Thank you all so much! 300 episodes is wild!✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Here are some of the top new horror books out for January 2024. Okay, Rosemary's Baby is a reprint - but what a reprint it is! Here is a short clutch of books that caught my eye for January, starting with a few from Horror Writers Association authors. See more like that over at https://horror.org/newreleases/. There are not too many books coming out in January 2024 that really caught my eye. Certainly, if you look at some publishers lists there are more, but nothing that really strikes me as good old fashioned horror. I think we are all reeling a little from the speed at which 2023 seemed to creep up on us, shake us in its jaws and toss us ina corner. That is, if you read the news. If you were blissful and only the main character in tour own story I have feeling it was a rather quiet passing of twelve regular months. I was half of one, and half the other. Here are some very interesting books coming out soon, and some out already...-Shadows & Ink: Mastering the art of Horror Writing and Publishing Volume 1 by Joe Mynhardt -Metal Demon by Julie Hiner-Perverted Little Freak by Rick Wood-Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin with an Introduction by Chuck Palahniuk and afterword by R. L. Stine-The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz-The Best Horror of the Year Volume 15, edited by Ellen Datlow-A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat-The Winslow Sisters by Michael Aronovitz Right now I am reading - The Only One Left: A Novel by Riley Sager https://amzn.to/3tUI69V✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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It has been a good year for horror, and while 2024 promises to be better, how will I get to it all while reading less books? To end 2023 I talk about social media and how I've been slowly ditching a lot of it, and podcasts. Between the fun that is making a horror film podcast on Dead Air, and this show which is a podcast itself (an award winning one at that), I listen to A Lot of podcasts. I also talk a little about stress and how I refuse to let it in the door... and kind of always have.As well, what I am reading of late and what you think I ought to read! Have a great end to 2023 and may the start of 2024 find you curled up with a good book! Thank you for watching and have an ooky spooky day! ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Here are some of the best novellas I read in 2023. While I am on the hunt for books on my shelf I have not read yet, I thought novellas would be a good bet. Turns out, I've nearly read them all! Not a mystery as to why; they are great and short easy reads. Looking for something to read in an afternoon? Here we are. In the meantime, be sure to check out the new amusement park horror, Carni by R. Saint Claire! https://amzn.to/3sSt6ch as mentioned! In horror literature, novellas are perfect additions to any collection. Their short and digestible length make them perfect for one sitting, giving readers instant immersion into chilling narratives. Novellas serve as a nuanced introduction to an author's style, allowing enthusiasts to traverse the macabre landscapes of renowned talents without having to invest time or money into a whole novel. Shorter work used to be more popular in previous centuries, and horror novellas emerge once again as new treasures, with a new-found literary sophistication, in my opinion, and offering enthusiasts a swift yet profound journey into the realms of dread.✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Did you read a lot this past year? Or, like me, somewhere around a book every week or two? Did you read a book a month? Twelve books a year is the honest average and the healthy challenge ~ so many of us here on booktube read so much that some even dip into triple digits. It is all well and good, especially when you get the fun of ranking them to ferret out the top ten!While my goal is still around 30 books, I do hope to read more. Is that perverse? After admitting a book a month is the healthy pace? When I look at how quick I can devour a book I am enjoying, I could easily read a book every three days... but there is more to life than great horror novels. There is meeting great horror authors! I had the pleasure of having met a few of the authors in my top ten ,so come along and see who they might have been!For 2022, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9C-zkfBWNo✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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I'd read a few ooky spooky books in October but the stand out novel was Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon. "There are others out there in the night, roaming the streets, lurking in the darkness―waiting to show Ed just how different his world could be. Some of them are enticing, like the beautiful girl who wants to teach Ed about the wonders of the night. Some are disturbing and threatening. Some are deadly…And in search of prey." A wild ride, like most Laymon, but tempered with the soft hush of a chilly night wind, and footsteps through leaves on darkened streets. Pick up a copy of Night in the Lonesome October here: https://amzn.to/3RbsA2aI'd also read Blood Sugar and Dark Harvest - both excellent and books I will read again. Heck, all three were. ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Fun facts: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. Some images use MidJourney or Abode generation tools. Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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I am attempting the Read What You Own challenge, as mentioned in the previous video. To start, I have a great clutch of books to pick from! This is about half of what I hope to read before I can buy my 'treat' book by the end of December. Also, I got a great shirt from @SynsBookNook and you should too!Some of the books I plan on reading are:Mothwoman by Nicole Cushing https://amzn.to/3uhkwEhFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury https://amzn.to/49DsYh0The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe https://amzn.to/474sCOZThe Only One left by Riley Sager https://amzn.to/47smqRfStarling House by Alix E Harrow https://amzn.to/3SHplRkCold, Black and Infinite by Todd Keisling https://amzn.to/3SGQmnXThe Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw https://amzn.to/3QZEpIT...and quite a few more! Once I get some of these done, I'll do another round of picking from the shelves. If you are doing this challenge too, let me know!✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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The Merrickville Book Emporium and a charity sale at my work had a few really wonderful books for me this week! Then, I'll be on a book buying break for now.On the 1st of November I'll choose the 25 books I'll be reading until... well, when I am done reading them I suppose. This is part of the 'Read what you own' challenge and it comes at a good time. For now, I'll show some of the wonderful books that ended up being part of my last book haul.Merrickville itself is a perfect little Halloween town, but the real horror was finding a wrecked copy of Stephen King's Night Shift at a charity book sale. I wanted to mend it but can't just take in every stray I see...Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge - https://amzn.to/3McWz7eL'homme chauve-sourise by Jo Nesbo - https://amzn.to/40fS1ToNo Logo by Naomi Klein - https://amzn.to/45MjOM8Rat River Trapper by Thomas P. Kelley - https://amzn.to/3QyHzDhGhost Stories of M.R. James - https://amzn.to/3QdFBXnCults! by various - https://amzn.to/3QARgRGand a bonus peek at Night Shift by Stephen King that I did not buy....✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksI talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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There are five books I am hoping to read before the witching hour on All Hallows Eve - an ambitious idea, I know since we are so close to the night of nights!Night in the Lonesome October - Richard Laymon - https://amzn.to/46Xddj6 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - https://amzn.to/48ZE53A Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus - https://amzn.to/493WDQvAlong About Midnight by Dorian J. Sinnott - https://amzn.to/401HlYeAre any of these on you Halloween reading list or are there books you get to every year when the moon hits just right? Blood Sugar is my new annual read so I am curious about these things now! I hope you found some spine-tingling inspiration in this year's Halloween reading list. Don't forget to give this video or post a star, and share this with friends who need bone-chilling book recommendations and deep dives into the world of dark literature. ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. If you prefer an alternative, try my Bookshop!Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Enter Boogeyman was sent to me for review by Acheron International: Thank you, Melina! While I am late in getting the news and review out, there are still 4 days left to go if you want to fund the printing of this anthology.Poppy Z. Brite wrote an illuminating introduction... and we will need it to see by down these dark halls wherein the boogeyman dwells. There are 18 stories about various boogeys ~ and four of the eighteen stories are reprints: the ones by Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, and Richard Chizmar. If the introduction and knowledge doesn't chase the haints away, it glows in th dark too, so that may light your way.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acheronint/enter-boogeyman-the-horror-anthologyI also get into other boogeymen: from the recent film from a story by Stephen King and even The Halloween film franchise.From wikipedia, "The Boogeyman is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage from a screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, and Mark Heyman and a screen story by Beck and Woods. It is based on the 1973 short story of the same name, by Stephen King.[6] The film stars Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, and David Dastmalchian." It is on Hulu and Disney and I rented it on Itunes. We even get to talk once more about "Becoming the Boogeyman" by Richard Chizmar which is "genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (according to Stephen King) and comes out October 10 as the follow up to the successful "Chasing the Boogeyman". Chizmar also has an entry in Enter Boogeyman. It all came together after a little Carpenter movie marathon and I realized I'd not said, read or heard the word boogeyman more in the last few days than I had over my entire life. So, what's a few more! Shall we?✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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The Night House by Jo Nesbø is the author's first foray into horror; and what a debut it is. A mad trip through small town Ballantyne ends up at the edges of sanity, if not beyond, but we start out innocently enough with two boys on a riverbank. From the first page to the last I had a great time, so thank you to Penguin Random House for sending this along, and Jo Nesbø for tackling the beautiful genre. Have you read The Night House? It comes out October 3, 2023, just in time for spooky season reading! https://amzn.to/3rtNsb9✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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The Devil’s Promise by Celso Hurtado follows his debut novel The Ghost Tracks about paranormal investigator Erasmo Cruz. Dealing with his grandmother's illness and the continuous struggle with his roots, Erasmo takes on a case alone and it may be his darkest yet. Soon, a skeptical Vero joins him and with the help of a few locals, then old friends, he comes to terms with true evil and how it ties to his own past. A young adult horror that speaks to seasoned fans of cult and occult horror like few can; Hurtado outdoes the first book in this series with a stellar sequel. Thank you to InkShares for sending this advance reading copy along, and thank you to Celso for writing such a great book! Highly recommended, so let me know if you have read either book. The Devil's Promise comes out October 3, 2023, just in time for spooky season reading! https://amzn.to/46c6GAV✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Vish has returned from boarding school to a life upside down in The Grimmer. The premise, the artwork, the music, and a debut in its demographic from Canadian author Naben Ruthnum; I was very excited for this. Thank you for ECW for sending the advance reading copy along!“The small-town mysteries … made modern with a dash of Stranger Things in this spine-tingling supernatural horror-thriller” as Google Books puts it and I would say a YA Grady Hendrix in the making as well. Also suitable for some middle-grade readers as there is no sex or brutality. It does mention drug use and alcoholism, though nothing overt is on the page. A fine occult dark urban fantasy with horror elements and a fun way to start my autumn reads! In my effort to avoid spoilers for this and Helpmeet, I had not heard the correct pronunciation of the authors name until after recording - so now I know! It seems to be Naben as 'nah-ben' which is much nicer than my 'nay-ben' and Ruthnum has more of a 'ruh' than a 'roo'. From ECW “Bringing together scares, suspense, and body horror, The Grimmer is award-winning author Naben Ruthnum’s first foray into the young adult genre. Set in Kelowna, B.C., it follows metalhead highschooler Vish as he battles with an interdimensional invasion, all while dealing with being one of the only brown kids in a small town.This gripping ride through the supernatural is loaded with vivid characters and frightening imagery. Although this is YA, Naben is such a great author and the book deals with complex issues such as grief, racism, and addiction that make it an accessible book for readers of all ages.”Let me know if you have read this one! ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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There are 31 Books of Halloween, and then some! So many great horror books come out with anthologies galore, stand alone novels and even a book on writing horror. What more could we want? Oh yes, the time to read them all! ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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This is the first month in many years I've opened a Book of the Month box! It hasn't been available in Canada for over a decade, and since the restructuring, they have returned north of the united states border so I thought I'd try it out again. Sure, they won't have the sort of horror I like to read most of the time, but there are loads of Stephen King and V. C. Andrews book club editions everywhere for a reason! So, here is my chance to get the BOTM back and make it horror.Do you have BOTM? Other book box services sound great, but are they worth it? Let me know what you think!✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks⁠ to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Four thousand subscribers! Thank you so much! The big reveal here is whho was the four-thousandth subscriber...While I will have a few more videos about books coming in September and October - spooky season - I have to mention October 3 right away. It struck me as there are 14 books that so many of us will want to read; and there will no doubt be more to come! See all the books, and the October 3 smörgåsbord at https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror I've picked up some new Duncan Ralston, old Edward Lee, and have three amazing books from ECW, Ink Shares, and Knopf to read this month! 00:00 - Four Thousand Subscribers: Thank you!02:10 - What I'll be reading09:04 - Extreme horror picks for early Fall13:21 - New borror books coming on October 3, 2023✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks to shop local!▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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The curio tag caught my eye when @edlewisnoctreviews did a fantastic version, then i just watched @revenantreads doing this as well while this video was rendering. I love seeing everyone's shelves. With the new books I have to make room for, I'll be rearranging my collection in a matter of days here so this serves as a good little record. First though, we went to a local library sale and Black Squirrel Books so I have a few new 'curios'. The prize so far is either topping off my V. C. Andrews collection, or this amazing limited photo book of Lewis Carroll's letters to his child friends. Creepy, yes; horror, perhaps not... but unsettleing! 00:00 - The haul, the tour, the tag and hello there01:40 - An unhaul of horror books03:13 - Extreme horror books I bought recently04:11 - Black Squirrel shopping for books07:04 - The Library Book Sale finds09:09 - Carroll: Photos and Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child Friends11:35 - The Curio Tag: shelf tour of goth home decor✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k2⁠0OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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There is really something for everyone this month; poetry, nonfiction, grim tales, middle-grade, and good old fashioned terror. As noted, Crystal Lake Entertainment offers flash fiction https://www.crystallakepub.com/out-today-shallow-waters-vol-9/ subscribe to their newsletter to find out more about their flash fiction contests. Crystal Lake has reecently rebranded and has an extreme horror imprint coming soon, Torrid! Very exciting!As ever, you can find more books at https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror and the HWA site https://horror.org/newreleases/ ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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While I am not normally on the hunt for definitive seasonal reads, I came upon what is the best summer horror I've read in ages. While not a slasher or rural terror that I normally associate with the blazing sun and ne'er do well teens, it has shades of both in the background. Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor hit my love of dark Canadiana, Addams family oddities and just a plain good story.

Get the book: https://amzn.to/3E3Veed https://timmcgregorauthor.com/

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I picked up a lot of books on my summer travels! Ira Levin, Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon, Tim Waggoner, Tim McGregor, and if I could come up with another 'Tim' horror author, I'd have bought their books too! And not to mention, Nicole Willson, who is not named Tim but alongside the aforementioned McGregor sent me a novella in the mail; both of which I read and loved.

Coming soon: Standalone reviews of 'Lure' and 'Wasps in the Ice Cream' as well as a second video for 'The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill'

Speaking of August ~ I was on a panel speaking about the August Underground trilogy not too long ago! Thank you to the Spinsters of Horror for having me for a second year in a row on the Visceral Pleasures series! Watch that here : https://www.youtube.com/live/DrGQ9cOx22A

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There were a lot of books announced after and during the Bram Stoker Awards! Sure, some were already out, ad there are even more to come, but it seemed like a super full month.

You can see more of this eerie eye-candy on https://horror.org/newreleases/ and click though to learn more of the HWA author's titles, or check https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror for even more! That is where I keep a running list of all the books mentioned on the show.

Enjoy! And let me know what you are reading or if any of these are coming home with you!

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There were widely mixed reviews for Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw and I am very late to the game. I will always think of this as one of the best presented books in a long time - the cover art is beautiful. I also enjoyed the story, and the more I think on it, it strikes me as a manga-style, 90s teen horror cycle tale told with a far more modern take on language, with more than one cardboard cut-out character. But that is fine, since we have our hero Cat to guide us through this; whether it be in our search for true horror or fan-service easter-eggs.

Looking forward to reading their next book, The Salt Grows Heavy, sooner rather than this much later!

Unearth a copy here: https://amzn.to/3PYL3ij

If you enjoyed this one, let me know - did you go in blind, or like me did you have forewarning that the story was not what everyone expected?

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So many books found their way home with me! Around 30 books, and tales of Apport Books (who celebrate 2 years this weekend!), the Allentown Rose Gardens, assorted book stores, a library sale and of course, StokerCon!

Alongside Alex and Regina, who you know from The Bookubus and Reginas Haunted Library respectively, we explored panels, the dealers room, shared meals out in the picturesque Station Square area and then the banquet. A perfect horror-centric bookish week for sure!

Also, for Canadian readers who are interested, I have a StokeCon souvenir anthology for the taking! Just comment 'StokerCon Giveaway' to be entered into the draw. Patreon bookworms can enter twice; once here on YouTube and once on Patreon. I'll draw on July 22 and announce the lucky winner!

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Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks Learn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4

I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.

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Swan Song is a post-apocalyptic story so here is a list of books inspired by themes in the book Swan Song written by Robert McCammon. This is an original tag by Cliff, and I was tagged by him at Cliff’s Dark Gems

https://m.youtube.com/@cliffmurray7533 Original tag video : https://youtu.be/GoneqpbAdoE

Prompts 1) It's the end of the world as we know it: Name a book with an abrupt, bad ending.

2) Shattered Earth: Name a book that made you feel damaged and broken inside.

3) Sickness/ Plague/ Radioactive Poisoning: Name a book where a central character is afflicted with a disease or disability.

4) Good/ Humane/ Brave: Name a feel-good book that warmed your heart.

5) Evil/ Warlords/ Power: Name a book that contains your most hated character.

6) Struggle to survive: Name a book where a character or characters put aside morals, ethics and values in order to survive.

7) Absent Technology: Name a book that makes you think of a life without modern gadgets.

8) Societal Collapse: Name the most dark, depressing book you have ever read.

9) There is always Hope: Name the most optimistic book you have read.

10) Fresh Beginnings: Name a book that has a perfect opening paragraph or chapter, that really draws you into the story.

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Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠

I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.

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New horror books out now! June is the season of garage sales and vendors tables at conventions here, not to mention library sales and thrift shopping galore! There has to be room on the self for a few more tomes, right! Here are some of the select horror titles coming out this month, mostly from Horror Writers Association authors, so check more out here https://horror.org/newreleases/ and as ever, at https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror where you will find a different selection.

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▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror

▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com

Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks

Learn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4

I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.

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Today we are talking about Island by Richard Laymon. One of my top five Laymon books. I have the Leisure edition, published in 2002, but the original 1995 copy has the far better cover. Pick up a copy here https://amzn.to/3pSx8zgThis is a perfect beachy read for those that like wilder fare, and a great way to start off the summer... it's not even June yet but here we are on a deserted island.✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ A list of horror books out each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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New horror books coming for May: have you read any of these yet? May showers aside; it’s raining horror! Gearing up for convention season, or planning the next relaxing vacation read, there is a lot to choose from here. From poetry, prose, novels and collections, we do seem to be short on nonfiction but could wait until school is back in session for that… or see what next month brings!See way more on horror.org/newreleases and https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Do you do anything special to mark the occasion of finishing a good book? How about a bad book? I saw this great discussion in a tag video from Crystal at Fiberartsy and Syn of Syn’s Book Nook so here we are with the Finish The Book Tag.As noted, here are two of my most favourite channels for book talk!https://www.youtube.com/@SynsBookNook

https://www.youtube.com/@fiberartsyreads #finishthebook Tag Questions:1.Do you keep a list of the books you have read?2. What stats do you record?3. Do you give star ratings?4. Do you review your books?5. Where do you put your finished books?6. How do you pick your next book?7. Do you have any rituals when you have finished the book?8. Who do you tag?✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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So many books, and so little time as they say. We get into the books I bought during my trip to Apport Books and what I picked up just the other day. Then into what I read this month and the reading pile to come.It was Independent Bookstore Day this past Saturday and while I did not get a chance to get out, I will be visiting my local bookstores soon, Like Perfect Books and Black Squirrel Books, and of course Allison the Bookman. So, while it is not a small local bookstore I did visit the closest Indigo! A chain bookstore always has so many non-book items but I still find the inside cozy, and this new location is made of reading nooks galore! Still, there is never enough horror for my liking. Ongoing support for Pax: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pax-panic-kick-cancers-assMentioned in this video:Apport bookshttps://www.instagram.com/apportusedbooks/Book Worms Horror Zinehttps://www.instagram.com/bookwormshorrorzine/Getting Hygge With Ithttps://www.youtube.com/@UCcnyltWxlFDH2ymDyk5kWCQ Harpies in the Treeshttps://www.youtube.com/@UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww Regina's Haunted Libraryhttps://www.youtube.com/@ReginasHauntedLibrary ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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New horror releases for April are looking varied as spring flowers. This is the perfect month to discover a new author, a new press, and not be caught playing the fool when it comes to next year’s award winners! As bulbs bloom and the season rolls over once more, be sure to add a few of these to the ever changing landscape of your horror library…Plus a bonus on how I terrorized my mothers magazine rack. These books are featured on ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠ too!✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: ⁠https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever⁠▹ Read books I wrote: ⁠https://amzn.to/3k20OY6⁠▹ A list of horror books out each month: ⁠https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror⁠▹ Music by ænorex: ⁠https://aenorex.com⁠ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks⁠Learn more with the welcome video ▹ ⁠https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4⁠I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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There is nothing quite like getting lost in your favourite bookstore, surrounded by towers of tomes. We returned to Emmaus in Pennsylvania on a now annual bookstore road trip for a horror, occult, sci-fi and vintage book shopping spree at Apport Used Books. This is my kind of book lovers dream, and no doubt you would find something fantastic here too. Thank you to Ben for speaking with us about the shop ~ we will be back! Apport Used Books. 12 S 4th St Emmaus, PA, U.S.A. 18049or visit on Abe Books or Instragram https://www.instagram.com/apportusedbooks/✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ New horror each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk horror books, extreme horror, classic, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Do you love short stories as much as I do? After receiving American Cannibal in the mail I recalled some of the best anthologies I've read in the past few years. Here are some of the top modern horror collections on my shelf:When Things Get Dark https://amzn.to/3L3ZOO0There is no Death, There are no Dead https://amzn.to/43DU4BWDaughters of Darkness https://amzn.to/41xqImUDreams From the Witch House https://amzn.to/3KEGJjVSplatterpunk's Not Dead https://amzn.to/3GILCYkThe Best Horror of the Year https://amzn.to/41v62f5Horror anthologies are collections of short stories or novellas that explore the darkest and most terrifying aspects of the human experience. These books have been a staple of the horror genre for decades and continue to play a vital role in shaping the modern horror fiction landscape. By featuring multiple stories from different authors, they allow readers to experience a variety of different writing styles and perspectives on the genre. They also offer a platform for emerging and established horror writers to showcase their work and for editors to blaze a new path. Horror anthologies provide a unique opportunity to explore the depths of human fear page by page, story by story.✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever▹ Read books I wrote: https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ New horror each month: https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror▹ Music by ænorex: https://aenorex.com Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooksLearn more with the welcome video ▹ https://youtu.be/DGXCa-Bz0o4I talk scary books, extreme horror, classic, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

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Books I read, books I will read in March and one questionable special edition? I've just finished reading Poking Holes by Juan Valencia so that will be in the next one as well, and am in the middle of Where the Ocean Was by Nathaniel A. Giles. Next will be Bad Blood by Tobin Elliott and Cuts by Richard Laymon.For the questionable one... was it William Hope Hodgson, Richard Laymon, or Dennis Cooper? I try to be factual but the disappointment in this one hardcover was very real. Or was is awe? Surpassing disappointment into the realm of nearly being impressed by how messed up the production of the book really was? Let's find out on the 267th episode of Typical Books.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Today on Typical Books we will be taking a look at the most spine-tingling horror book releases coming out next month. If you're a horror book enthusiast, you won't want to miss the top picks for the most promising new horror books hitting the shelves in March 2023. So let's explore the latest and greatest in horror fiction!

Decided to include more books again this time around and in editing, realized something. I've not commented on the covers! With so many very cool covers (Suburban Monsters is amazing) I am dumbstruck as to why I didn't.

Perhaps my brain was fully in 'podcast' mode where I tend to either describe or ignore visuals. I was also pretty caught up in the book summaries :)

The full list is at https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror and as ever, there is more at horror.org/newreleases too!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Do you finish every book you begin reading? The DNF, or did not finish tag as it relates to horror books intrigued me while watching Pax over at the Panic Room talk about this...

Check Pax's video out here: https://youtu.be/Fbz3kILLlkA - There is also an ongoing fundraiser where my YouTube and Patreon income has been going: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pax-panic-kick-cancers-ass

1. Do you DNF?

2. If you DNF a book- does it count towards books read for the month?

3. Is there a difference between dnf and “just putting it down for a bit”

4. What popular book have you dnf?

5. What book do you wish you had dnf?

6. Do you ever re attempt to read a dnf? Has this ever been successful for you?

7. What do you do with books you dnf?

8. Do you choose more or less risky titles because of your stance on dnf?

9. Tag 5 BookTube Buddies - or however many people you want.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Late coming but full of horror goodness, after careful deliberation, my top ten reads of last year are finally here! Some surprises, even to me, and two different authors end up with two books in the top ten. Who are they? Find out!

Being the original women in horror month, this list is really fitting. Let me know what you think of these titles!

Featuring: Darcy Coates, Catriona Ward, Matt Query and Harrison Query, Brom, Stephanie Sparks, Priscilla Bettis, Andre Bjerke, and Chuck Palahniuk.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Welcome to Typical Books episode Two hundred and sixty-three. This coming June it will be ten years as a horror book show host! Many readers had done the New Year booktuber tag and I liked the flow of questions - making this a good precursor to my belated 2023 ranked video.

Mentioned in this video:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pax-panic-kick-cancers-ass to help support the lovely Pax Panic and also check out Plagued by Visions if you have not before - thank you!

New Year Booktuber Tag

1. What are you most excited about for 2023?

2. Do you have a Goodreads challenge goal, and why that number?

3. List three 5-star predictions!

4. What genre, subgenre, or trope do you want to read more of?

5. What trope do you think will be the most popular in 2023?

6. Name three bookish goals for the year!

7. Name three personal goals for the year!

8. What do you want to leave behind in 2022?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Not as many new horror books now as there are in October, but some titles should not be missed! You can find links to these; Episode 13, Bad Cree, All the White Spaces, Ragman, Taboo in Four Colors and more at https://typicalbooks.com/newhorroryear/ and of course, https://horror.org/newreleases/.

The book I missed is an Arkam House publication from 1964!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Something like 17 books to start 2023 out with a cozy reading spree in a warm corner. These will go well with all of the leftover cookies and treats!

Featuring ~ Diablo: Tales from the Horadric Library, Stephen King in three different tasty ways, nonfiction on Victorian death rituals and ghosts, a horror reader snowglobe of all things and way more including a Suntup edition of a book very dear to me!

See more on Axl Barnes here: http://axlbarnes.blogspot.com/ reviews of his work, articles, videos and social links!

The snow globe was from The Merry Christmas Shoppe in Merrickville, Ontario https://www.themerrychristmasshoppe.ca/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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November's reading was fairly minimal with work and French class taking time away from curling up with a good book. However, I finished Clown in a Cornfield 2, then read The Butcher and Strangled Epitaphs. Just finishing The Vessel this weekend before getting on to December reading proper. Still on track to have read more than the fourteen books I have listed on Goodreads so will update that now, using past videos to track it.

Mentioned here are:

http://www.thehorrorstreamlive.com/index.php/books/754-typical-books-odysee Thanks Gary!

https://amzn.to/3BpKExv Axl Barnes Strangled Epitaphs

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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16 new horror books hitting our shelves from Horror Writers Association authors! While I don't cover every book, you can see the wall of eerie eye candy with every book submitted at https://horror.org/newreleases/

I also cover even more horror books out each month on Typical Books Monthly Magazine for Patreon bookworms :)

The book I could not remember was : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59846080-pulling-teeth-and-other-stories

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Halloween has come and gone, but the books are just getting onto my shelf! Here is a diary of the books I picked up over spooky season, mainly horror with a little magick as well. We visited a haunt at Saunders Farm, went to a bookstore in the witchy little town of Merrickville, and I travelled north and ended up adding to my Laymon collection.

Mentioned here:

My blog post about Brian Horeck books and self-publishing - https://nightface.ca/publishing-vanity-press-self-publishing-and-shades-between/
Allison the Bookman - https://allisonthebookman.com/
The Merrickville Book Emporium - http://merrickvillebooks.ca
Dog Meat by Priscilla Bettis - https://priscillabettisauthor.com/2022/11/08/its-here-dog-meat-plus-10-reasons-why-you-should-buy-my-book-even-if-you-dont-read-horror/
Poking Holes by Juan Valencia - https://amzn.to/3Uok2V6
Sacrifice Everything by anndy negative - https://youtu.be/1VVfnGwAsrA

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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A very late upload! Two treats, and one trick. I have the 2022 SpookBag from Cavity Colors but first, an unboxing of Dog Meat by Priscilla Bettis. Check out more on the author here, and pick up Dog Meat on November 8, 2022 ~ https://priscillabettisauthor.com/

For ordering links and the cover reveal: https://priscillabettisauthor.com/2022/08/11/cover-reveal-dog-meat/ - I will have a review up just before release too!

Thank you, Priscilla, for the opportunity to read this early and for such a wild package! This is the top book unboxing of the year, easy.

Then an unboxing of the wonderful SpookBag from Cavity Colors! This is their 2022 bag and it was loads of fun to see ~ https://cavitycolors.com/

Also, check out Anndy Negative! https://youtube.com/user/anndynegative

Happy Halloween!

00:00 - Dog Meat Unboxing
04:53 - Spookbag Unboxing

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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I was asked to talk about a perfect book ~ so this is the most perfect horror book on my shelves, according to me. A book I would be pictured reading and perhaps even buried with. Maybe that is a little extreme... but I do love the look of this book. With bonus geekery on fonts.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Some books start a film rolling in your mind as you read - and here are some I think ought to be made into films. This may be a recurring theme here, and thank you to Mers of Harpies in the Trees for the suggestion ages ago!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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It has been a packed month of reading in September and I am still at it! There is another video coming soon and then, wow, a massive list of books out for the spooky season. The leaves have just started to turn here so I am looking forward to a hot cup of something sweet, and getting cozy...

00:00 - Welcome to Fall

00:46 - T Horror by Thomas Nichols

01:52 - What I read in September

Shawn D Standfast on stained edges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oX8j-kKzrM

Andrew of GAHH! on Where has all the Horror gone!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIui9x1wqU

The Gabby Petito case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Gabby_Petito

T-Horror by Thomas Nichols https://www.tncomedy.net/thorror-buy-page

Beware by Richard Laymon

The House of Footsteps by Matthew West

The Pelerin Decline by Pay Veo

The Tolkien Companion by J.E.A Taylor

Friend Live: Clown in a Cornfield II by Adam Cesar

The Con Season by Adam Ceasar

From Below by Darcy Coates

Paradoxia by Lydia Lunch

Old Country by Matt Query and Harrison Query

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Is there a certain type of book cover that draws you in? Certain words in the title perhaps? Today it is a list of books I was compelled to buy mainly because they have the word psycho in the title...

Note: Apologies for the delay here! After a month of spotty internet, everything is back in order and episodes will be posted to catch up to the show over the next few days.

Psycho by Robert Bloch

The Psycho by Phillips Moore

Psycho Sanitarium by Chet Williamson

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

House of Psychotic Women by Keir-La Janisse

Psychos edited by John Skipp

Only Psychos by Daniel J Volpe

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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New horror books out right now ~ These are from HWA authors, and you can find more at typicalbooks/newhorror but first I show the new Bookworm book bag from the Typical Books store! So, books about hometowns, new monsters, and even mermaids await...

The store : https://shop.typicalbooks.com/

This link is on the linktree, at my main web page and on the top of my channel pages here if you ever need it for shopping or sharing!

All social links, the shop, and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever ~ If there is anything you think I ought to read, let me know!

Books mentioned today are:

The Saint of Witches by Avra Margariti

This Town Died With You by A.J. Spencer

Nothing but the Blood by J. Matthew Saunders

The Cursed Among Us by John Durgin

Back Track by Julie Hiner

Deeper Than Hell by Joshua Millican

We Can Never Leave This Place by Eric LaRocca

The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton

Cut To Care: A Collection Of Little Hurts by Aaron Dries

Shagging the Boss by Rebecca Rowland

Lure by Tim McGregor

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

See them all at https://horror.org/newreleases/

00:00 - Typical Books for July

00:36 - The snazzy new Bookworm book bag

01:12 - Horror Writers Association authors books for July 2022

13:02 - What I have been doing (Diablo Immortal mostly)

All socials and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

Have questions? You can leave a voicemail here and I may play it on the show! https://www.speakpipe.com/TypicalBooks

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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My horror reading wrapup for May and to-be-read for June has a bridge book and one that I didn't get to - mostly because I added two books to the list. Bonus skulls! My sister gifted me a small bear skull and a hefty moose skull. Ethically sourced, and a little piece of home.

Quite a few of these are free ebooks or really low cost, so if you want to get started with Kindle Unlimited, check out https://amzn.to/3LWRtti

If there is anything you think I ought to read, let me know. You can leave a voicemail here and I may play it on the show! https://www.speakpipe.com/TypicalBooks

All social links and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

The Psycho by Phillips Moore - out of print

Only Psychos by Daniel J Volpe https://amzn.to/3FgKIQz

Splatterpunk Forever https://amzn.to/3Q7cowm

Glyph by Tony Evans https://amzn.to/3zrrlU3

Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell

The Patron Pick is

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas https://amzn.to/3xk4uHw

Beware by Richard Laymon https://amzn.to/3w2Nuon

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin https://amzn.to/39aOOyh

00:00 - Horror books I read in May 2022

15:29 - I have a bear skull and a moose skull now

17:23 - Horror I will read in June 2022

22:05 - Do you think skulls are disturbing?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Today we talk about new horror books that are out right now. These are from HWA authors, but first I add to the bookshelves with a few books I left out of the last shopping spree. Also, this is StokerCon weekend! Congratulations to everyone on the ballot!

All social links and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

If there is anything you think I ought to read, let me know. You can leave a voicemail here and I may play it on the show! https://www.speakpipe.com/TypicalBooks

Books mentioned today are:

Goblin by Josh Malerman

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stepehen King

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M.Shaw

The Mill by Cailyn Lloyd

The Haunting of Kinnawe House by Steven Rigolosi

Devilish Dust by Erik Dean

Spare Parts by Aaron Deck

About Horror - The Study and Craft by L. Marie Wood

Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America by Pamela K. Kinney

Asylum Daughter by Natasha Sinclair

Killer Be Killed by William Sterling

Beyond the Creek by Nico Bell

Bottled Spirits & Other Dark Tales ny Adrian Ludens

Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror

See them all at https://horror.org/newreleases/

00:00 - Horror books for April and May 2022

00:09 - StokerCon and Bram Stoker Awards 2021

02:20 - Horror novels I picked up at Barnes & Noble

04:50 - New Books from Horror Writers Association authors

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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My horror reading wrapup for April and to-be-read for May have a few repeats. Some short horror stories and new books that just came in the mail!

Quite a few of these are free ebooks or really low cost, so while I may sound like an advert for it ... Get started with Kindle Unlimited https://amzn.to/3LWRtti

If there is anything you think I ought to read, let me know. You can leave a voicemail here and I may play it on the show! https://www.speakpipe.com/TypicalBooks

All socials and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

My latest book, Pray Lied Eve 3, is out now! Short tales of the macabre and untoward: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JY193VJ

The Jack Torrence bookends - https://amzn.to/3LNWHHO

Sundial by Catriona Ward https://amzn.to/3vIj63J

The Cellar by Richard Laymon https://amzn.to/3LFMxsv

The Psycho by Phillips Moore - out of print

Unpleasantness by Nathaniel A. Giles https://amzn.to/3u9dnTJ

Hunted by Darcy Coates https://amzn.to/3Jbkz68

The Patron Pick for April was

The Haunting of Kinnawe House by Steven Rigolosi https://amzn.to/3FjPEo6

and it is free to read on Kindle Unlimited right now!

Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell

Beware by Richard Laymon https://amzn.to/3w2Nuon

Only Psychos by Daniel J Volpe https://amzn.to/3FgKIQz

Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell https://amzn.to/3LJCumL

00:00 - Horror books I read in April 2022

06:26 - Horror I will read in May 2022

10:40 - Horror ebooks I found on Amazon

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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We visited Apport Books in Emmaus PA and I brought home a stack of wonderful horror books! With one book from Second and Charles too...

I've listed a few books you can find on the shelves that may be of interest to horror fans,

Follow Apport Books on IG for certain! https://www.instagram.com/apportusedbooks

They post new books regularly and have been a virtual store long before opening last summer, they are no stranger to online orders!

Books Mentioned:

Dark Gods by TED Klien

Let's Go Play at the Addams' by Mendel W. Johnson

666 by Jay Anson in hardcover

Some really great pulp crime and all sorts of oddities like little blue books and classics in occultism, philosophy, sci-fi and of course horror.

Books I picked up:

Dark Hollow by Brian Keene https://amzn.to/39gNDwU

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene https://amzn.to/3vbqlkq

She Wakes by Jack Ketchum https://amzn.to/3MsnglR

Population Zero by Wrath James White https://amzn.to/3Lag3GS

Slither by Edward Lee https://amzn.to/38le97Z

Children of No One by Nicole Cushing https://amzn.to/3OAlnFO

Slice by Rex Miller

Chaingang by Rex Miller

Bad Brains by Kathe Koja https://amzn.to/3kaf0uE

Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell https://amzn.to/3EIyMa2

Small Horrors by Darcy Coates https://amzn.to/3rOd67c

The Unicorn by Hans Holzer https://amzn.to/3Lgmt7u

The Science of Vampires by Katherine Ramsland https://amzn.to/3xPCSM6

Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti https://amzn.to/3Kfwro6

00:00 - In the bookstore and books you may want

05:08 - The horror books I bought at Apport Used Books

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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What horror icons would you follow on social media?

Thank you to John of @Books of Blood for tagging me! This is an original tag, so if you have already come up with your picks, let John know :)

All my socials and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

00:00 - The Horrors of Social Media

03:31 - Facebook

04:46 - Instagram

05:36 - Twitter

08:05 - Youtube

09:55 - Tinder

10:33 - Tiktok

13:53 - Do you find social media scary?

The Questions:

1. Facebook

Which horror character would you be most likely to accept a friend request from and which horror character would you be least likely to accept a friend request from?

1. Instagram

Which horror character would you be most likely to follow and which horror character would you be least likely to follow?

1. Twitter

Which horror character would have the best tweets and which horror character would have the worst tweets?

1. YouTube

Which horror character would you be most likely to subscribe to and which horror character would you be least likely to subscribe to?

1. Tinder

Which horror character would you be most likely to swipe right for and which horror character would you be most likely to swipe left for?

Optional: TikTok

Which horror character would have the most annoying TikToks

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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My horror reading wrapup for March and to-be-read for April are shaping up well. Bit of a throwback to the 80s and even the 60s this month!

Cannibal Creator by Chad Lutzke* https://amzn.to/3r6FBwJ

Behemoth Risen by Eddie Generous https://amzn.to/35Vb1hX

A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons https://amzn.to/3GmzdGo

Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas https://amzn.to/3opSH6X

The Patron Pick for March was Sundial by Catriona Ward https://amzn.to/3NNmFwx

The Cellar by Richard Laymon https://amzn.to/3LFMxsv

The Psycho by Phillips Moore - out of print

Unpleasantness by Nathaniel A. Giles* https://amzn.to/3u9dnTJ

Hunted by Darcy Coates* https://amzn.to/3Jbkz68

• Kindle Unlimited

00:00 - Horror books I read in March 2022

08:55 - Horror I will read in April 2022

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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All kinds of books hit this March and in horror, we have non-fiction, short collections, standalone novels and even a photo book...

New horror from HWA authors!

Special Note: There is a comp copy of Bridging Worlds from Jembafola Press at their site https://jembefola.com/bridging-worlds-global-conversations-on-creating-pan-african-speculative-literature-in-a-pandemic-cover-and-toc-reveal/

On Sundays, She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield https://amzn.to/3qo7Kip

The Black Hole by L. Marie Wood https://amzn.to/3tvt732

Threads by Bryan Cassiday https://amzn.to/352ZbCe

The Legend of Lake Incunabula and other fantastic tales by Paul Lonardo https://amzn.to/3qlyMag

Happiness and Other Diseases by Sumiko Saulson https://mochamemoirspress.com/product/happiness-and-other-diseases/

Venomous Words with Poetry By Jeff Oliver Macro-Photography By Gordon Reilly http://www.hellboundbookspublishing.com/venomouswords.html

Check typicalbooks.com/newhorror for more!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Today we talk about finding emotion in the many faces of horror stories. As noted, there are books and films mentioned here in a shortlist of fiction that elicited some emotion in me. That said, I have a fairly flat emotional response in general, so. while my reactions are tempered, they can be there, bubbling under the surface.

An original tag by Juan @Plagued by Visions ~ thank you for tagging me! See the original video here: https://youtu.be/Obe0q4CW71I

1. A horror story that scared or disturbed you.

2. A horror story that depressed you or made you cry.

3. A horror story that made you laugh.

4. A horror story that made you angry.

5. A horror story that is important to you.

6. A non-horror story that you consider horror.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Read The Lake of the Dead by André Bjerke recently, and watched both films. Absolutely enjoyable classic Norwegian horror mystery. Being from the 40s, it's not a visceral haunting, but something far more subtle. This was a Patron pick, so thank you, fellow bookworms!

Often likened to Agatha Christie, I found it akin to Lovecraft by way of Nancy Drew. If that sounds odd, I'd say read some original Nancy Drew!

There are two film adaptations - Lake of the Dead in 1958 which stars the author as Gabriel Mörk, and a Shudder remake, Lake of Death in 2020. The new film may be a little more scary, but the original is far more beautiful.

Snag a copy from Valancourt International here: https://amzn.to/36iCnym

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Loads of bridge books that I didn't get to read last month, new horror picks from patron bookworms for this month and next, and two great new releases on the reading pile right now...

Hetty by Eddie Generous https://amzn.to/3LdFY0U

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward https://amzn.to/3ISLB2O

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester https://amzn.to/3hPtSxv

• I forgot I read Cannibal Creator! https://amzn.to/3CpNIJ1

The Patron Pick for February was

The Lake of the Dead by André Bjerke https://amzn.to/3hJSsQ7

Behemoth Risen by Eddie Generous https://amzn.to/35Vb1hX

A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons https://amzn.to/3GmzdGo

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe https://amzn.to/3rq4RhZ

Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas https://amzn.to/3opSH6X

See more from Luke Ramer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfW3Ln89AVMmhbhHnQEWDJg

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Quite a few collections and anthologies are coming out in horror for February 2022. A little catchup on the news I've been watching, and a copy of one of these books on the reading list already...

00:00 - Welcome to Typical Books!

01:27 - New Horror Books out in February 2022

01:47 - Do Not Weep For Me by Tony Tremblay https://amzn.to/3BM7bU3

02:44 - Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas https://amzn.to/34XXTse

03:37 - Dead of Night edited by Marcus Hawke https://amzn.to/3t1tnWn

01:27 - New Era by Tommy B. Smith https://amzn.to/3scRemu

05:17 - Foundlings by Cindy O'Quinn & Stephanie Ellis https://amzn.to/3hcAlC8

06:01 - The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger https://amzn.to/34Vi0Hz

07:00 - Horror Library, Volume 7 edited by Eric J. Guignard https://amzn.to/3531pBw

07:59 - Check typicalbooks.com/newhorror for more!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Here is my conversation with Dr. Amy Jane Vosper, a good friend of mine I had met through Ottawa Horror as a rabid film fan. You may recall Amy as The Glamour Ghoul as we have talked on Typical Books a few times before, although only in video. Today, we talk about the books she read while researching genre film theories and the shift in how females are portrayed and how women enjoy horror films. From her bio at Trent University, “Vosper’s PhD dissertation combined psychoanalytic film theory with original empirical research to investigate women’s multidimensional infiltration of horror as a genre, as a fan culture and as a productive process. Her research interests include horror, feminism, psychoanalysis, spectatorship, early Hollywood cinema, political economy, French New Wave cinema and studies of fan culture and fandom”.

Read more with Amy : https://offscreen.com/view/film-fear-and-the-female

And peep her bio here : https://www.trentu.ca/culturalstudies/node/55

This is part of the two-hour Monthly Magazine available to Patron bookworms

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Here is my conversation with Dr. Amy Jane Vosper, a good friend of mine I had met through Ottawa Horror as a rabid film fan. You may recall Amy as The Glamour Ghoul as we have talked on Typical Books a few times before, although only in video. Today, we talk about the books she read while researching genre film theories and the shift in how females are portrayed and how women enjoy horror films. From her bio at Trent University, “Vosper’s PhD dissertation combined psychoanalytic film theory with original empirical research to investigate women’s multidimensional infiltration of horror as a genre, as a fan culture and as a productive process. Her research interests include horror, feminism, psychoanalysis, spectatorship, early Hollywood cinema, political economy, French New Wave cinema and studies of fan culture and fandom”.

Read more with Amy : https://offscreen.com/view/film-fear-and-the-female

And peep her bio here : https://www.trentu.ca/culturalstudies/node/55

This is part of the two-hour Monthly Magazine available to Patron bookworms

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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What brought on this light conversation of a wretched topic you ask? Two things crossing my desk at once; a vile little tome that I now treasure covered by fellow booktube host, @Plagued by Visions and a favourite podcast with Dr. Lee Mellor talking about last year in crime covering The Bedsit Murderer. These two things rambled around in my mind and parallels were drawn...

Read the Necrophiliac https://amzn.to/3KzTNGs

or learn more about the Bedsit Murderer

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Do we need star ratings for books? Are stars full of it, as opposed to the other way around? That was a bad sci-fi joke, I admit, but this tag opens a really important discussion that has been on my mind. How do you or how should we review books?

Channels Mentioned here are @Harpies in the Trees, @Plagued by Visions, @Books of Blood, @The Bookubus and @Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot

1. Tag other booktubers

2. How do you know you’ve just finished a good book? Is it a thinking or a feeling response?

3. When you begin to form your review/rating - what is the first question you ask yourself?

4. Do you do star ratings? Why? Why not?

a. If YES: i. Explain your star rating system – what does a good book get in your rating system? ii. Is your star rating consistent? ie. are all your 5-star books better than all your 4-star books?

b. If NO: i. What language do you use to convey the quality of a book in your reviews? ii. Does this form an informal rating or ranking?

1. Do you believe every book has its perfect reader? Does this contradict the idea that a book can be “bad”?

2. What book that you hated have you recommended?

3. What makes a book good, bad or great by your evaluation?

4. When evaluating the quality of a book do you have specific criteria or aspects of the book, such as character development, that you consider? Does this change if you are writing an in-depth review vs. just thinking about the book for enjoyment?

5. Do you consider star ratings or average ratings when choosing books to read/add to your TBR?

6. Who on BookTube does reliable and interesting reviews of books that you know you can use to decide if a book is for you or not. What makes their reviews so good?

7. Does that/those booktuber(s) use different language than you to evaluate and review the overall quality of a book?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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So many different horror books coming out in January, debut novels, anthologies, creatures, haunts, you name it!

00:00 - New Horror Books out in January 2022

00:15 - The Hay Bale by Priscilla Bettis https://amzn.to/3I1elp8

00:33 - Women in Trouble by R. Saint Claire https://amzn.to/3nmeBXY

00:50 - There are more horror books out in January than there were in December

01:11 - New horror from HWA authors

01:25 - The Devil Makes Three by Lucy Blue https://amzn.to/3K76GI3

02:21 - The Squatter by Jonathan Dunne https://amzn.to/3njLHrC

03:19 - Paused by Stephanie Ellis https://amzn.to/33o1yye

04:31 - Beulah by Christi Nogle https://amzn.to/3GkTDjK

05:18 - Hold My Place by Cassondra Windwalker https://amzn.to/3zSE4xx

06:13 - The Wakening by J G Faherty https://amzn.to/33cMvaW

06:55 - Generation X-ed edited by Rebecca Rowland https://amzn.to/3tk1kmE

07:55 - Mastodon by Steve Stred https://amzn.to/3ruPfsv

08:39 - Check typicalbooks.com/newhorror for more!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked Slewfoot, with only a few things to take me out of 1666 Connecticut.

00:00 - Today we will get into Slewfoot by Brom https://amzn.to/3zA6z2A

01:01 - A tale of bewitchery

01:50 - The setting and people

03:02 - The VVitch meets A Midsummer's Night Dream

04:23 - Abitha and her husband

06:30 - A peek inside the book

09:00 - It's good to own land...

10:11 - Skipping church? That's a paddlin'

11:22 - It may even be more horror than fantasy

12:12 - Have you read Slewfoot?

Slewfoot by Gerald Brom was a gift to me, and an anticipated read all in one. Abitha, the lead character, as a near-shunned Puritan woman and the cover art had me deeply intrigued. What I did not expect was the level of whimsy and fantasy found here, and while normally it’s not my cup of tea, this fit so nicely into my vision of a magical occurrence at this time, that I would certainly read more like this.

I’m new to Brom, save casual noticing of his art, so his style may not come as a surprise to fans. Meeting Abitha and the bible quoting townsfolk was as intriguing to me as the creatures that step from the forest to turn her life upside down. Newly widowed, fighting a land claim, and practising healing arts made Abitha’s life in 1966 Connecticut feel very real to me. Then, there is Slewfoot. The imagery linked to the myth is lovely and enchanting as all the rest.

A cross between Robert Eggers’ film ‘The Witch’ and A Midsummers Night Dream.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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This was a good reading month, and January looks even better! Some updates on memberships and how patrons can pick a book for me to read each month. I'm excited about that!

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00:00 - December Wrapup and January To Be Read

00:47 - What I read in December

00:51 - The Slob by Aron Beauregard https://amzn.to/3fb1nJ6

01:16 - Cows by Matthew Stokoe https://amzn.to/3EUycEE

02:03 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte https://amzn.to/3pTMCk7

03:04 - Rape of a Normal Mind by Chris Cobb

03:41 - Slewfoot by Brom https://amzn.to/32PKZv9

04:23 - Rue Morgue Magazine

05:00 - Books I will read in January 2022

05:04 - Halloween Kills by Tim Waggoner https://amzn.to/3FVPG4Z

05:51 - The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop https://amzn.to/3zrkfgf

06:56 - Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk https://amzn.to/3tdofjJ

08:01 - When Things Get Dark anthology https://amzn.to/3JBnLcR

08:42 - Patrons pick a book for me to read! https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks

09:55 - Memberships and more!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Do you use a ranking app? I picked the top ten books from 48 I read according to Goodreads.

This episode relies on visuals, but I've done my best to describe what viewers are seeing.

Find them all at https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks

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There is a proper Tier Ranking here : https://tiermaker.com/create/horror-books-1437625

Narrowing it down to 10 books took a bit of thought, and I was glad to use Photoshop to sort them visually!

An overview, the sorting, the ranking, then afterward I list each book for your future shopping list ~ enjoy, and let me know if you hit your reading goal or plan one for next year!

00:00 - Ranking the books I read this year

00:49 - Not every book is on Goodreads

01:23 - What raking app do you use?

02:13 - The Ranking begins with 52 books

02:28 - Removing books that are not horror or true crime

03:01 - Moving books into categories

04:10 - A book is a book

04:20 - Deliniating horror, extreme and in-between

04:41 - Piling books the e-easy way!

04:59 - Notable omissions

05:41 - Finally sorted, now to pick out ten books

07:04 - Ranking my top ten books

08:35 - The top two books I read this year

08:58 - The top 10 in order

10:35 - The top ten books of 2021 expanded

12:58 - Do you rate your books or plan for next year?

13:43 - All 52 books: A recap of each title

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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With a birthday so close to Christmas, I prefer everything about that, especially the books!

It is the perfect time of year, being so snowy and cold here in Canada, to curl up for a week with this stack of great books.

Find them all at https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks

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With so many gifts, books I am reading right now, and one I picked up for myself, I figured a bookish haul video was in order.

See the series on @Books of Blood https://youtu.be/7dMvFba1H7g

00:00 - Holiday Horror Haul and Current Reads

00:18 - Slewfoot by Brom https://amzn.to/30OEgRh

00:32 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce https://amzn.to/32ux7Gk

01:30 - More on Slewfoot to come

02:10 - Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk https://amzn.to/32hvjAr

02:34 - A few Authortube ideas for 2022

03:34 - The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop https://amzn.to/32qnKah

03:59 - Horror home for the holidays...

04:32 - Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs https://amzn.to/3sqGIJa

06:36 - Halloween novelization by John Passarella https://amzn.to/3qiRb6y

07:33 - Halloween Kills shirt from Fright Rags

07:45 - The Order of the Good Death mug https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/

08:12 - The Terror by Dan Simmons https://amzn.to/3H0ZRVP

11:05 - Rape of a Normal Mind by Chris Cobb and Rob Avery https://amzn.to/3ee2ur9

14:41 - What are you reading over the holidays?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Slob and The Slob are two extreme or splatterpunk horror books published at either end of the subgenre's timeline.

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The Slob by Aron Beauregard from 2021 https://amzn.to/3EZswtY

Slob by Rex Miller in 1986 https://amzn.to/3s8JuSU

Note that Slob is not easy to find. I was lucky to find one for under 10 dollars at Thrift Books.

Both have elements of extreme, dark, and gory horror fiction. Your content advisory of choice can guide you past brutal scenes, bodily violence, gender-based violence, morally questionable ideas, and elements often found in very dark horror.

00:00 - Slob and The Slob - Extreme and Splatterpunk horror

00:20 - The Slob was a Splatterpunk Award nominee

01:58 - Why talk about both books?

02:18 - Slob was a 1986 Bram Stoker Award winner

04:39 - Differences in writing styles

06:22 - How the gore stacks up

08:15 - Splatterpunk or Extreme? Or both?

09:11 - Have you read either of these books?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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There is a theme of haunted or psychically sensitive young women in these books!

And graphic covers with eye-catching red. Always a great colour choice for horror.

00:00 - New Horror Books for December 2021

01:50 - The Stoning by Amanda Johns https://amzn.to/3oGNAzJ

02:39 - The Rat King: A Horror Collection by LP Hernandez https://amzn.to/3IEXLg8

04:12 - Azalea House by Clare Castleberry https://amzn.to/3IEyyT3

05:22 - Pulse by B.A. Bellec https://amzn.to/3GxHPdD

06:55 - The Spiral by Nikki DeKeuster https://amzn.to/3GxHQhH

08:17 - Touched by Shadows by Vaughn A. Jackson https://amzn.to/3yjeeBN

09:19 - Find more new horror books https://horror.org/newreleases/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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The Krampus booktube tag is great fun. I had to play along after seeing some of my favourite hosts do the same!

Namely, that is Elizabeth Sagewood and Year of the Author so far, and I hope more of us get into it for December 2021.

Also, check out Mers' video! A Field Guide to Krampus - A Christmas Cryptid https://youtu.be/5iEXpULukDc from Harpies in the Trees

Here are the questions:

1. The Man Himself- Which fictional character would best play the Christmas Demon?

2. Is that sleigh bells?- Which fictional character deserves to be visited by Krampus?

3. Bedtime Stories- Which horror book best fits the Christmas Season?

4. Devilish Gifts- What is one strange fictional item you'd like to receive from Krampus?

5. Food, Glorious Food- What is one food (fictional or real) you'd like to eat for Christmas Dinner?

6. Home for Christmas- What is one dark & dangerous fictional location you'd like to visit for Christmas?

7. Location, Location- Where would you like to travel with Krampus/who would you like to visit with Krampus?

8. Locking Horns- What fictional character (good or evil) would you like to see battle Krampus?

9. Spreading the Fear- What book would Krampus give to Santa Claus?

Beware the Krampus!

00:00 - The Krampus Book Tag

01:03 - Which fictional character would best play the Christmas Demon?

01:33 - Which fictional character deserves to be visited by Krampus?

02:10 - Which horror book best fits the Christmas Season?

03:17 - What is one strange fictional item you'd like to receive from Krampus?

03:56 - What is one food (fictional or real) you'd like to eat for Christmas Dinner?

04:40 - What is one dark & dangerous fictional location you'd like to visit for Christmas?

05:39 - Where would you like to travel with Krampus/who would you like to visit with Krampus?

06:35 - What fictional character (good or evil) would you like to see battle Krampus?

07:11 - What book would Krampus give to Santa Claus?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Today we talk about Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. A classic countryside creeping horror novel.

Now, Harvest Home Hacks sounds odd, so here are some things that heightened the fun for me while reading this classic. A wonderful book despite the slump I hit while reading ~ if you know of other rural novels like this, I'm all 'ears'.

Harvest Home : https://amzn.to/31ci6Zv

Foxfire : https://amzn.to/3dcu33r

How to Make an Apple Doll : https://amzn.to/3d9OVs7

00:00 - Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

04:19 - Harvest Festivals are Real Things

05:10 - You Can Hear The Corn Growing

07:13 - Corn Dollies are Creepy

08:20 - The exodus from New York was Real

09:51 - There's Learnin' in them thar Hills

11:24 - The Ultimate Harvest Home Hack

16:34 - I will be reading more Thomas Tryon

17:12 - What is next on Typical Books

17:53 - Did you read Harvest Home?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Celso Hurtado was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He has been a punk guitarist, worked in the political arena, and has played entirely too many hours of The Legend of Zelda. In his writing, he strives to surprise his readers and make them think twice before investigating that creak in the hallway. The Ghost Tracks is his first novel, a young-adult paranormal thriller out now from Inkshares and I am so pleased he could join us on the show.

Find Celso on Twitter : https://twitter.com/CelsoHurtadoJr

The Ghost Tracks : https://amzn.to/3pkPViG

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at typicalbooks.com.

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Celso Hurtado was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He has been a punk guitarist, worked in the political arena, and has played entirely too many hours of The Legend of Zelda. In his writing, he strives to surprise his readers and make them think twice before investigating that creak in the hallway. The Ghost Tracks is his first novel, a young-adult paranormal thriller out now from Inkshares and I am so pleased he could join us on the show.

Find Celso on Twitter : https://twitter.com/CelsoHurtadoJr

The Ghost Tracks : https://amzn.to/3pkPViG

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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New horror books for late autumn, the drizzly season, or whatever November means to you. Here in Canada, it is freezing, so a good month to curl up with a book or ten.

As mentioned, check out the Goodreads Best Horror 2021 https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-horror-books-2021

Do you vote on books for awards?

Read Bunhead : https://www.darkfictionfactory.com/post/bunhead

00:00 - Welcome to Typical Books

00:29 - Horror Awards and Reading Lists

01:58 - A few great new horror novellas

04:44 - New horror for November 2021

05:03 - Midnight From Beyond the Stars edited by Kenneth W. Cain https://amzn.to/3qIUw0J

05:55 - Pray Lied Eve 3 by Lydia Peever https://amzn.to/2YVD3GK

06:47 - Halloween Kills by Tim Waggoner https://amzn.to/3Fpy0xN

08:31 - Drops of Insanity by Jeff Oliver https://amzn.to/3x09TTp

09:29 - The Hawk and the Raven by Stacey Dighton https://amzn.to/3DqtjDy

10:27 - Silence is Crimson by Raz T. Slasher https://amzn.to/3cCVjrT

11:33 - 150 Exquisite Horror Books - Essential Guide to the Best 150 Books of Contemporary Horror Fiction edited by Alessandro Manzetti https://amzn.to/3oAEjb3

13:28 - Seeds of Truer Natures by L.S. Johnson https://amzn.to/3FrLNE2

14:45 - The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Five edited by Christopher K. Philippo https://amzn.to/3nnzin0

16:21 - The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen edited by Ellen Datlow https://amzn.to/3oC7FGa

17:59 - The Jewish Book of Horror edited by Josh Schlossberg https://amzn.to/3CrTk47

19:04 - Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas from Hex Publishers https://amzn.to/3kLNN24

20:21 - Electric Green Mambas by Bryan Cassiday https://amzn.to/3oGL1MI

21:33 - What's coming up, and thank you for watching!

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Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Last month I read less than I wanted, but did relax a whole lot! In the last week of the month, I read quite a bit more, finishing Tender is the Flesh, a novella, The Ghost Tracks, and working on one that is taking a while for me to get through. The next month has a good mix of urban and extreme horror and with a few novellas in the mix!

00:00 - Start

02:43 - Red X by David Demchuck https://amzn.to/3lbb2mQ

03:34 - Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazzterica https://amzn.to/3mkBgTa

04:35 - The Ghost Tracks by Celso Hurtado https://amzn.to/3ldMhqd

08:01 - The HWA Recommended Reading List

10:43 - Current Horror Reading

13:13 - November Reading

20:33 - A Boy's Best Friend by Luke Ramer - Luke's website : https://www.darkfictionfactory.com/

22:20 - Halloween Kills - Novelization by Tim Waggoner https://amzn.to/30dbclu

The reading lists: https://horror.org/hwa-reading-list/

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For more, subscribe to the Typical Books Monthly Magazine on:

Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks

Half of the ebooks I read are on Kindle Unlimited

Start a Kindle trial here ▹ https://amzn.to/3z2niuy

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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A dystopian horror, set in a world where animals are not used for food anymore because there are no animals left but us.

From the description, "Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -though no one calls them that anymore" ...they call them 'special meat' and that dissonance is the first battle the reader must endure. From tip to tail, this book is a riveting read that I enjoyed very much. Contains minimal animal cruelty, unless you count humans... then it contains quite a bit.

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Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com

music used by permission of the artist

For more, subscribe to the Typical Books Monthly Magazine on:

Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks

Half of the ebooks I read are on Kindle Unlimited

Start a Kindle trial here ▹ https://amzn.to/3z2niuy

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Nicole Willson is an author of horror fiction who resides on the outskirts of Washington, DC.

With over one hundred micro and short stories on Medium.com, her work is also featured in the Halldark Holidays anthology. Her first novel, Tidepool, a Lovecraftian dark fantasy novel came out in the summer of 2021 and I am very pleased to have her on the show.

Find her at http://nicolewillson.com/ and on Twitter @insomnicole.

This is your magazine ~ if there is an article you’d like to see here, let me know at http://typicalbooks.com

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Nicole Willson is an author of horror fiction who resides on the outskirts of Washington, DC.

With over one hundred micro and short stories on Medium.com, her work is also featured in the Halldark Holidays anthology. Her first novel, Tidepool, a Lovecraftian dark fantasy novel came out in the summer of 2021 and I am very pleased to have her on the show.

Find her at http://nicolewillson.com/ and on Twitter @insomnicole.

This is your magazine ~ if there is an article you’d like to see here, let me know at http://typicalbooks.com

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Tricks and treats to cure the Halloween hangover! I received some wonderful books over the last week or so for the hallowed shelves, and walked among the crunching leaves, alongside pumpkin elves.  The Witch of Plum Hollow: https://blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org/allin/2017/09/09/meet-mother-barnes-the-witch-of-plum-hollow-ontario/  Channels to follow: Elizabeth Sagewood,  @Mindy's Book Journey,   @The Bookubus     Books mentioned here are:   When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson https://amzn.to/3nVbQfI Slewfoot by Brom https://amzn.to/3BJM5nr Ghoul by Michael Slade https://tinyurl.com/ygdee2ey The Last Testament of Crighton Smythe by Gavin Gardiner https://amzn.to/3CFfLDv Ich Will by Axle Barnes https://amzn.to/3jYvoP6 We're Not Home a Horror Anthology https://amzn.to/2YbjvOd Pray Lied Eve 3 by Lydia Peever https://amzn.to/3mEhcwv ✮✮✮✮✮✮ Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows! Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories. Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show! If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast. Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here is a creepy clutch of horror books out now for October 2021! Maybe not so Halloweeny exactly, but horror all the same!

Channels mentioned are: @Plagued by Visions @Harpies in the Trees @Cam Wolfe is Writing @Kelly Martin Books and 'We're Not Home: A Horror Anthology' can be found at https://amzn.to/3b06jP0

Books mentioned are:

The Cockroach King https://amzn.to/3jviyIa Andrew Cull

Giving The Devil His Due https://amzn.to/2ZhgxI0 Edited by Rebecca Brewer, Running Wild Press & The Pixel Project

Blood & Bone: An Anthology of Body Horror by Women & Non-Binary Writers https://amzn.to/2XCw7hb A.R. Ward, Ghost Orchid Press

A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies https://amzn.to/2XCRw9T Mathias Clasen, Oxford University Press

Mouth Full of Ashes https://amzn.to/3jtpeq0 Briana Morgan

Within Me Without Me https://amzn.to/2Ze7Ga2 Sumiko Saulson

Cacophony: Book Two (The Realm) https://amzn.to/3b1yLzU L. Marie Wood

The Wild Witches of West Bygod https://amzn.to/3pum3Cs Paul Lubaczewski

The House That Fear Built https://amzn.to/3b9bY5f Kelly Martin

Next Door https://amzn.to/3ni5zuh Kimberly Davis Basso

The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill: Gothic Tales of Boston https://amzn.to/3C9dZdR Adam Bolivar, Jackanapes Press

Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror https://amzn.to/3prkZ1Z Edited by Ellen Datlow, Tachyon Publications

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Today we have a little show and tell of five horror classics in augmented reality editions ~ just in time for Halloween from Augmented Classics ~ you can see more at https://www.augmentedclassics.com

Oxford defines it best as "a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view," and if you have read Virtual Light by William Gibson, it has a pretty good depiction of where this will go with smart glasses.

https://amzn.to/3G7DD4T - link to Virtual Light for sci-fi and cyberpunk fans

We talk about Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Beautiful and terrifying stories, all.

While this is not a sponsored video, Augmented Classics did send two of the books along after I provided review snippets for each of the five horror classics, unrelated to the video, for the print run only. Very grateful to be included in this cool project so thank you!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Gavin Gardiner is an author from Glasgow, and he believes there is no greater terror than a truly unhinged human mind. Specialing in the psychological, he pushes the themes and subjects of his work into areas seldom explored in the genre. His debut horror For Rye is available now, with a follow-up novella The Last Testament of Crighton Smythe due for release this Halloween.

You can find his website at http://gavingardinerhorror and more on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ggardinerhorror/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Gavin Gardiner is an author from Glasgow, and he believes there is no greater terror than a truly unhinged human mind. Specialing in the psychological, he pushes the themes and subjects of his work into areas seldom explored in the genre. His debut horror For Rye is available now, with a follow-up novella The Last Testament of Crighton Smythe due for release this Halloween.

You can find his website at http://gavingardinerhorror and more on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ggardinerhorror/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Last month I read a good handful of books for the readathon, but then slacked until October 1. The next month has a good mix of rural horror and urban darkness with maybe one more bonus book if I am lucky. Happy October!

As noted, you can hear the Monthly podcast at https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/typical-books/id6442495470

00:00 - It is officially Spooky Season!

00:21 - What horror I read last month

01:02 - What I am currently reading

03:25 - Podcast update for October

04:21 - TBR for October 2021

06:50 - I had hives so was a week behind...

Books mentioned:

Red X by David Demchuck - https://amzn.to/3lbb2mQ

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon - https://amzn.to/3iC7iZX

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica - https://amzn.to/3mkBgTa

There is No Death, There are No Dead - https://amzn.to/3leESXS

Full Throttle by Joe HIll - https://amzn.to/3iBbTLR

The Ghost Tracks by Celso Hurtado - https://amzn.to/3ldMhqd

My podcast partner's mother needs dental surgery and dentures ~ Here is the GoFundMe link to support Ruth : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruth-obtain-new-dentures

The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect... much; like a vampire.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Only a few days of September are left before those autumn vibes take hold for real ~ and we will be in spooky season proper; lovely October. Today we will talk about new horror books coming up from HWA authors. I curate the new release page at horror.org and these are some that caught my eye... quite a few collections of short horror in this little harvest!

Primeval Waters by William Burke https://amzn.to/2XOg9jO

Malinae by Josh Schlossberg https://amzn.to/3zLuzi0

Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw https://amzn.to/3i7wVS9

Magnolia Lane by Donald R. Guillory https://amzn.to/3o2uBQc

Let Me Out I've Had Enough by Mark Matthews https://amzn.to/3i7qDSF

Sack of Knives by Brandon Faircloth https://amzn.to/39C3piQ

Hell Night in Hopewell by Wofford Lee Jones https://amzn.to/2WeE4Zg

Followers by Christina Bergling https://amzn.to/3ueiDE3

Her Halloween Party by Brooklyn Ann https://amzn.to/3i5YoUi

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki https://amzn.to/3CIdGXd

The Impostor and Other Dark Tales by Marlena Frank https://amzn.to/3o6NjGw

Thank you for hanging out and snagging some new horror to read!

My podcast partner's mother needs dental surgery and dentures ~ Here is the GoFundMe link to support Ruth : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruth-obtain-new-dentures

The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect... much; like a vampire.

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Half of the ebooks I read are on Kindle Unlimited

Start a Kindle trial here ▹ https://amzn.to/3z2niuy

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the Youtube version by searching typicalbooks, watch on Odysee or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Today on Typical Books we get into the wrapup for my Ladies of Horror Fiction Readathon. After, we have a bonus review of Dreams from the Witch House - so all women authors here.

The books mentioned in my #lohfreadathon are:

Cross Roads by Laurel Hightower

The Stepchildren by Stephanie Sparks

Dear Laura by Gemma Amor

Tidepool by Nicole Willson

Dreams from the Witch House

lohf #ladiesofhorrorfiction

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here is a weird little jaunt to a desolate island populated by my favourite booktube hosts. If you want a new channel to watch, check it out ~ I was tagged in this fun video by Regina's Haunted Library and Batilda! Original Tag Video: https://youtu.be/fwk_vgo8nA0 from AJ Dunn Reads and Writes Thank you!

1. You come upon a hut whose inhabitant decides to be your guide. Which BookTuber do you trust to guide you across the island?

2. You set off in search of food and come across a BookTuber who can feed you. Who is it?

3. You and your guide somehow get lost and you’re thirsty. Which BookTuber could lead you to water?

4. Yikes! You fall into a hidden pit! Which BookTuber would you look to get you out?

5. The salty air is destroying your clothes. Which BookTuber would you let clothe you?

6. Even castaways need distractions! Which BookTuber do you find who gives you the entertainment you need?

7. Shucks! You’ve been hurt! You need to find a BookTuber to heal you. Who is it?

8. Now it’s raining! Which BookTuber do you meet who could build you a solid shelter?

9. You come across a BookTuber who challenges your perceptions. Who is it?

10. You find the source of all knowledge on BookTube Island. Which BookTuber holds that knowledge?

11. You finally have a chance to be rescued. Which BookTuber do you trust to save you?

12. You’ve been saved! Tag another BookTuber to go on the BookTube Island Castaway adventure! It is an open tag now since I am so late!

My podcast partner's mother needs dental surgery and dentures ~ Here is the GoFundMe link to support Ruth : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruth-obtain-new-dentures

The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect... much; like a vampire.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Last week I posted on twitter my TBR for the Ladies of Horror Fiction Readathon as so many books I was reading right now fit. It's a nice, easy-going readathon as there are no prompts: just read some great female authors!

Watch The Bookubus' LOFH Readathon announcement and TBR video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkvC53xpGU I also get wondering why so few female authors query for reviews...

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here is a list of horror books out already for September 2021 ~ more in a week or two with some pumpkin-smashing Halloweeny titles.

Mentioned in this video : https://augmentedclassics.com/

The Deer Kings

Wendy N. Wagner

JournalStone Books

When Darkness Finds You

Chris Cooper

Dreadful Media

Gorefest: Extreme Horror Anthology

K. Trap Jones, Editor

The Evil Cookie Publishing

The Book of The Baku

R. L. Boyle

Titan Books

The Condemned

Jesse Rosenbaum

Fulton Books

The Headless Boy

Kelli Owen

Poltergeist Press

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6: A Primer to Ramsey Campbell

Edited by Eric J. Guignard

Dark Moon Books

The Scrolls of Sin

David Rose

From The Wizard's Tower

This Morbid Life

Loren Rhoads

Automatism Press

Thank you!

My podcast partner's mother needs dental surgery and dentures ~ Here is the GoFundMe link to support Ruth : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruth-obtain-new-dentures

The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect... much; like a vampire.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here is what I read, bought, loved and lost last August: a horror book haul, TBR and everything in between. Happy Wednesday, whether we wear black or not! It is getting cooler here in Ottawa so perfect time to snag a latte, a book, and visit a Halloween store... which is exactly what we did.

Check out the Lost Gems on @Jason’s Weird Reads https://youtu.be/OdPD4Oqomko

00:00 - Wrapup, Haul, TBR, and all

01:38 - What I read in August

03:57 - I DNF these books

05:59 - Currently Reading

06:49 - New Acquisitions

09:17 - Thrift Haul 1

12:32 - Visiting Spirit Halloween

13:46 - Thrift Haul 2

15:00 - Prime Evil Hardcover

16:35 - New Horror on Kindle Unlimited

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Half of the ebooks I read are on Kindle Unlimited

Start a Kindle trial here ▹ https://amzn.to/3z2niuy

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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It's always about books, even when it's not: the It Can't Be Books Tag is a fun distraction from what I ought to be reading or writing now. I watched Books of Blood do this so wanted to play along then was tagged by Mindy! And the original video is from Book Buds!

Some of the things mentioned in this video are:

Perfume:

Margot Elena - https://margotelena.com/products/transformation-perfume

Body Shop Black Musk - https://amzn.to/2XRTWkS

The questions:

1. What is something that you own way too many of, other than books?

2. What is something that you do for fun that’s not reading a book?

3. What is something special or important on your nightstand, that’s not a book?

4. What’s something that you buy at a bookstore other than books?*

5. What’s a fun gift that you’ve received that wasn’t a book or a gift card for books?

6. What’s a YouTube channel that you watch that’s not related to books

7. Tag five BookTubers that you want to learn more about.

8. I missed a question! I'd say I buy bookmarks. The other things I buy are technically books: magazines and notebooks.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Today we pick up with part 2 of the author's interview with Axl Barnes. Check out part 1 of the interview if you missed it.

Axl Barnes is the author of the illustrated extreme and dark horror collection Stillborn Gallery. Previous work includes the novella Ich Will, the novel Odin Rising, and he is working on his second novel This Town Must Burn.

Leaving a career in philosophy academia aside, Axl has pursued writing horror fiction which was his first passion alongside studying existential nihilism, decay, and death; these themes play heavily in his fiction work.

You can find his website at http://axlbarnes.blogspot.com/ and more on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/axl_barnes/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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This was a super fun buddy read with @Regina's Haunted Library and perfect for getting closer to Halloween!

Here is the GoFundMe link to support Ruth : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruth-obtain-new-dentures

Watch Regina's video here : https://youtu.be/Vhii9lap7Tg

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare is a young adult horror novel in a b-movie slasher style - with clowns! And cornfields! What more could a girl want? A Bram Stoker Award win? Well, we have that too...

Pick a fresh copy straight from the field: https://amzn.to/3xYKTuK

I had done a reading vlog on TikTok so I've included those here as well and a few insights as to why I liked this story so much; from the writing style to my adoration of corn syrup marketing in the 40s and 50s.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

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Axl Barnes is the author of the illustrated extreme and dark horror collection Stillborn Gallery. Previous work includes the novella Ich Will, the novel Odin Rising, and he is working on his second novel This Town Must Burn.

Leaving a career in philosophy academia aside, Axl has pursued writing horror fiction which was his first passion alongside studying existential nihilism, decay, and death; these themes play heavily in his fiction work.

You can find his website at http://axlbarnes.blogspot.com/ and more on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/axl_barnes/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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An even longer list of horror books – fiction and nonfiction – coming out for August 2021! Some are from a few months ago… yet even more roll in each day it seems, and August is just busy all around for bookstores. Let me know if you’ve read any of these, hot off the press:

The Little Woods by A.G. Mock from Epoch Thrillers

American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson from University of Texas Press

The Razorblades in my Head by Donnie Goodman

Shirley Jackson: A Companion by Kristopher Woofter and Peter Lang

Desolation by Lucy Taylor from Poltergeist Press

21 Grams by M. Regan from Timber Ghost Press

Hello, Martin by P.J. Burgy

The Embalmer by Brae Wyckoff from LR Publishing

Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko from Harper Collins/Katherine Tegen Books

Keening Country by Seán O’Connor from Idolum Publishing

The Stepchildren by Stephanie Sparks

Floaters by Garrett Boatman from Crystal Lake Publishing

Dread Softly by Caryn Larrinaga from Twisted Tree Press

Rag & Bone: Transmission by Samantha Arthurs from Cat&Key Books

When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson edited by Ellen Datlow from Titan Books

Whitesands by Johann Thorsson from Headshot Books

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Konn Lavery is the author of 38 short stories and 10 novels including Rave, Seed Me, and the Mental Damnation series. He also designs cover art and beyond his own books has worked with authors Eddie Generous, Jessa Forest, and Leslie Hodgins.

Alongside writing, Konn is an accomplished web designer, graphic designer, and multi-instrumentalist. You can hear his music projects W.O.K.E. and Konnartist on Bandcamp and accompanying his many audiobooks and transmedia productions.

https://konnlavery.com/

https://www.patreon.com/konnlavery

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Rock, metal, and punk are often found in horror fiction, but Black Metal I don't find often enough. Here are two novellas that feature the genre heavily, and are quite terrifying reads. As a bonus, I leaf through True Norwegian Black Metal from Peter Beste which features striking photography and collected reproductions of TNBM press and lore.

Odin Rising: https://amzn.to/3lRWqtd

Corpsepaint: https://amzn.to/2VCqcrw

The VICE video I mention: https://youtu.be/32iX5lbVDto?t=1481

Black Claw: https://youtu.be/kj3e3kk1vaM

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Konn Lavery is the author of 38 short stories and 10 novels including Rave, Seed Me, and the Mental Damnation series. He also designs cover art and beyond his own books has worked with authors Eddie Generous, Jessa Forest, and Leslie Hodgins.

Alongside writing, Konn is an accomplished web designer, graphic designer, and multi-instrumentalist. You can hear his music projects W.O.K.E. and Konnartist on Bandcamp and accompanying his many audiobooks and transmedia productions.

https://konnlavery.com/

https://www.patreon.com/konnlavery

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here is my horror reading wrap-up for July 2021. A few books recycle themselves from last month, and there are a few current reads I've finished over the last day!

Check out Avey Reads review of Transmuted: https://youtu.be/AB2cDLfwRpI

I finally watched The Last Wolf: Karl Edward Wagner documentary on Vimeo. Well worth it : https://vimeo.com/thelastwolf

On the piles, we have:

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

The Killer Across the Table

The Walking Son by Eddie Generous

Snow by Ronald Malfi

Odin Rising by Axl Barnes

Corpsepaint by David Peak

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (for an upcoming fun promotion)

House of a Hundred Whispers by Graham Masterton (for Mers at Harpies in the Trees Readalong)

Truth of the Shadows by Slade Templeton

Providence After Dark by T. E. D. Klein

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Ceasar

Transmuted by Eve Harms

Inspired by Olivia at Avey Reads

The Hungry Moon by Ramsay Campbell

Harvest Home

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

The Vampire Conniseur

The Witch House

The HWA Anthology

Pray Lied Eve 2 and Pray Lied Eve 3 will be released In hardcover soon!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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There are a few more horror books coming out now or soon to add to the reading list!

All the Tommys in the World

Javier Gombinsky

Pigfarm Press

Sometimes We're Cruel and Other Stories

J.A.W. McCarthy

Cemetery Gates Media

Tidepool

Nicole Willson

Parliament House Press

Queen of Teeth

Hailey Piper

Strangehouse Books

Absolute Unit

Nick Kolakowski

Crystal Lake Publishing

Sisters in Arms

Erica Ruppert

Trepidatio Publishing, an imprint of JournalStone

Chronicles of the Skullmask

Teel James Glenn

Bold Venture Press

Beyond the Rail and Other Nightmares

Ichabod Ebenezer

Thank you for watching and have an ooky, spooky day!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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I really enjoyed For Rye and it is my first read from Gavin Gardiner. If you like horror with dilapidated houses, writers going off the deep end, and a little town with big secrets, this is a good pick...

"Renata Wakefield, a traumatised novelist on the brink of suicide, is drawn back to her childhood hometown following her mother's ritualistic murder. Before long, she becomes ensnared in the mysteries of Millbury Peak as one question lies heavy: Who killed Sylvia Wakefield?”

Special thank you to Gavin for the review copy!

Pick up a copy : https://amzn.to/3y4vbit Thank you for watching and have an ooky, spooky day! - Lydia

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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I read two interesting horror novellas recently, and they were very different! The Walking Son by Eddie Generous from The Seventh Terrace and Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca from Weirdpunk Books.

The Walking Son is a many-threaded plot that delves into the supernatural, body transformation, and treachery - a lot for a slim volume, but so well crafted. I had a good time reading this, and thank you to Eddie Generous for sending it along.

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is the talk of the town, and deals with online control, deception, and depraved desires. I recommend some reading with this one on contracts in relationships which is one element I've seen little conversation about so far.

Get them here:

The Walking Son https://amzn.to/36DJwXh

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://amzn.to/3hFEFeh

Thank you for watching and have an ooky, spooky day!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Reading wrap ups here include my to-be-read or TBR, my haul, and everything bookish for the month. So, I am late getting this out, but I did record it earlier so it is accurate, though I have finished reading two novellas and The Killer Across the Table as of uploading.

Loads of books but the highlight is the flip-book of Blucifer from the HWA StokerCon Anthology!

00:00 - Wrapup, haul and TBR

04:00 - StokerCon and Blucifer!

05:34 - Check out Pax Panic!

05:58 - typicalbooks.com

07:40 - By genres I mean subgenres of horror haha

07:50 - Thank you!

Thank you for watching and have an ooky, spooky day!

• Lydia

Check out Pax Panic! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24I3zOq_LMvL28WZrcf51w

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here are the latest books from Horror Writers Association Authors! As ever, most are out already or are coming very soon. I'm a sucker for cover art, or eerie eye-candy, and here is a feast for the eyes hand-picked from horror.org/newreleases.

As mentioned in the video, each month I curate a larger list for the Monthly Magazine on Patreon and Apple podcast subscriptions. Thank you for watching and have an ooky, spooky day! - Lydia

Today we hear about:

Sentinel Drew Starling Eerie River Publishing

The Down River People Adam Smith and Matthew Fox Boom! Comics, Archaia

Chopping Spree Angela Sylvaine Unnerving Books

Wearing Shadows Simon Paul Woodward musingMonster Books

Encyclopedia Sharksploitanica Susan Snyder Madness Heart Press

Transmuted (Rewind or Die Book 30) | Eve Harms Unnerving

Only The Stains Remain Ross Jeffery Cemetery Gates Media

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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This recent purchase lead me to a new author, and I want to read more. Axl Barnes contacted me about his latest collection, Stillborn Gallery and I was very interested so bought it right away. For those who like apathy crossing into their nihilism, as I do, with visceral scenes of gore that highlight the insignificance of life or what many regard as values intrinsic to the human-animal, these short stories find darkness in every corner; and tear even that to shreds. Each is a study on mortality and I found this a great counter to the feel-good beach-reads of horror.

See more from Axl Barnes: https://amzn.to/3Avp3Bv

00:00 - Welcome

00:49 - Back jacket copy

01:55 - This has all the goodies

02:39 - A peek inside

02:55 - Why I especially liked the first two stories

04:05 - Middle of the book and shorter entries

05:20 - My two top tales - Dead Seed

05:48 - Slumburbia

06:39 - My two top tales - Sunday Exit

07:24 - For fans of fun...

09:35 - Feel bad hit of the summer

09:46 - When a scene goes next level, in reality

11:03 - Summary; I do recommend this

12:14 - If you skipped through to hear talk of nicer things

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Today we have The Friday the 13th Franchise Book Tag!

This is an original tag from @Paperback Junky and I was tagged by @Harpies in the Trees ~ both amazing channels!

I had no idea what to do for the 200th episode, so an ooky spooky tag seemed to fit the bill. There may be something fun coming for 100,000 views of Typical Books but I'm just not sure what! An AMA live stream? An ookier spookier tag? If you haven't done this tag yet, here we go!

Questions:

PART 1: A book where the mother is the villain.

PART 2: A book in the backwoods.

PART 3: A book with a masked character.

PART 4: A book with the best final chapter

PART 5: A series book that changes its protagonist from the first book.

PART 6: A book with someone or something resurrected from death.

PART 7: A book with a character with telekinesis.

PART 8: A book that takes place in New York.

PART 9: A book that takes place in Hell or has something to do with the occult.

PART X: A book that takes place in space.

PART 11: A book that has characters from different franchises/mash up.

PART 12: A book that is a retelling

PART 13: A book that you found in a thrift or antique shop.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Scanlines by Todd Keisling is a very dark novella from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Terrifying, especially to those who have tumbled down the wrong rabbit holes online, late at night, or when you were too young. "We were ghouls in a graveyard, digging up a dead man's grave for closure. We never considered he might want to stay buried."

From the back cover: "...No one has ever seen the supposed Duncan Tape, presumably because it doesn't exist. It's a ghost story perpetuated on the forums and chat rooms of the internet, another handful of bytes scattered across the Information Superhighway at blistering 56K modem speeds. For Robby and his friends, an urban legend is the last thing on their minds when a boring Friday night presents a chance to download porn. But the short clip they watch turns out to be something far more graphic and disturbing, and in the coming days, they'll learn even the most outlandish urban legends possess a shred of truth..."

Download a copy here: https://amzn.to/35S7Sfp

If you need to talk, call 911, 999 or 112 in most countries, or find resources here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows!

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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A party gone wrong is one way to describe Rave by Konn Lavery. Twenty-four hours of drugs, bloodshed, and lust... and skulls. That was the one thing most reviews skimp on and I am no exception - I should have dug deeper into just what tantalizing and ancient imagery the teens are up against in the forest. Nothing like bringing a rave to its roots with a horned man-beast. Once I read a little more Lavery perhaps we shall learn more...

00:00 - Welcome and Rave

01:33 - Party Kids in the Great Outdoors

02:33 - Seth the Graver 05:00 - Drugs and Lust

07:35 - A Peek Inside the Book

11:45 - Readalikes

Snag a copy here: https://amzn.to/2Uo5uuq

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Today on Typical Books we talk conspiracy theories. Dr. Lee Mellor's latest book was on my wishlist the moment it was announced. Here I go chapter by chapter with a tidbit on what I'd known, a little of what I know now, and maybe a little opinion here and there. How could I resist!

MK-Ultra? Area 51? Men in Black? These were my true-life horrors as a kid...

Seek out your copy here : https://amzn.to/3gijiiB

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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This past weekend I attended #StokerCon and the Bram Stoker Awards. An ooky spooky time was had by all! There is a link to the awards in the video, and of course, new horror books coming out in June 2021! So if you need some horror reading recommendations, here we go ~ 0:00 Intro and Award Chat 3:33 New Books Out Now or Coming Soon

Polygon #29 Catt Colborn

The Vampire's Witch Damian Serbu NineStar Press

Faces of Evil E. L. Jefferson E. L. Books

The Mother Wound Jess Landry Independent Legions Publishing

Sunshine and the Full Moon Jon Robinson Koehler Books

Take Your Turn, Teddy Haley Newlin New Degree Press

Petrified Women Jeremy Ray Infinite Ray Publishing

You Will Be Consumed Nikolas P. Robinson Madness Heart Press

Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires: 25th Anniversary Author Revised Edition Steven-Elliot Altman WordFire Press

The Maker's Box David Barclay Aphotic Realm

Lost Letters to a Lover's Carcass Ronald J. Murray JournalStone

Master of Rods and Strings Jason Marc Harris Vernacular Books

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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12 Nights at Rotter House by J. W. Ocker came as an unexpected hit for me. As I'm hit or miss with modern haunted house stories, this does feature a crumbling Victorian mansion, a sordid and sinful past, and a certain degree of ghost hunting to be had. So, a certain amount of this story is forever trapped in the past.

It also features a writer, Felix, for the main character so I was sold.

Felix is our morbid travel writer and unreliable narrator all in one.

Pick up a copy ~ https://amzn.to/3uWLtHZ

There is also ample talk of horror films within these haunted halls, so I had a lot of fun with this, even when we were ripped from the past and plunked onto a threadbare couch in the parlour with our reluctant investigators.

Like horror films too? Wes Knipe and I talk horror over at Splatterpictures.net on Dead Air Horror Podcast! https://splatterpictures.net/

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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So many horror books read and to read! First, some appreciation ~

The Wicked Library is celebrating Pride Month!

https://thewickedlibrary.com/

I've been a huge fan and contributor on a few spooooky occasions so certainly follow the Wicked Library and all at 9th Story Studios, like Victoria's Lift!

Channels to check out for sure!

@Harpies in the Trees

@Regina's Haunted Library

Juan is @Plagued by Visions : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrUv-ayoo-5c6GbYHnDqSg

So! I have a gift-wrapped and blood-spattered package in my hands! Aside from my groovy, if not hunky, Psycho Goreman shirt there was a surprise this month. Excited to dig in ~

The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

Vampyrrhic by Simon Clark

Dracula's Child by J. S. Barnes

For Rye by Gavin Gardner

Rave by Konn Lavery

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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This is the first Ann Rule book I've read and if you have interest in the Ted Bundy case, then The Stranger Beside Me comes highly recommended. Over and above the recent documentaries and films at that. I'll be reading more Ann Rule, that's for sure! It may go without saying, but this episode contains mention of his deplorable acts although I do focus on the book and why I liked it so much.

TedBundy #AnnRule #truecrime

Books mentioned:

The Stranger Beside Me - https://amzn.to/3uzhwxh

The Killer Across the Table - https://amzn.to/3c0QwR6

The Last Book on the Left - https://amzn.to/3vtUych

Understanding Necrophilia - https://amzn.to/3p4TDgc

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. He eventually confessed to 30 homicides across seven states between 1974 and 1978.

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Intensity by Dead Koontz was a very neat book I read alongside Regina at Regina's Haunted Library! A great dark thriller that certainly lives in the horror genre. We learned quite a bit about thriller writing tactics here, and I compare a little to the film High Tension (Haute Tension). 

Check out  @Regina's Haunted Library  here! I'll link her channel until the review is up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Looking forward to more horror from Clay McLeod Chapman as this book was a great read. No spoilers here, but I do talk about my lack of exposure to the #SatanicPanic. Looks like I have a few books to read there! 

Worship your own copy here: https://amzn.to/2Rk68Ia

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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For my first and perhaps only unboxing video, I present a lot of 25 Richard Laymon books I picked up recently. Alongside #unboxing, I'll shelve them chronologically. It was an impressive buy, and just good luck! Now, to find the rest of them in the wild...

0:00 - About unboxing...

1:02 - More mergers & Acquisitions

1:42 - What's in the Box!

9:09 - Shelving the books

15:25 - Making them fit on the shelf

Also, an addendum to the recent Mergers & Acquisitions ~ I'd forgotten to include WHisper Down the Lane and 12 Nights at Rotter House. Fantastic reading, both!

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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My Kindle is bursting, and I received two books this month with another on the way. As usual, there is a magazine in the mix and a call out to suggest recent vampire books!

0:00 - Mergers and Acquisitions

0:36 - Dracula’s Child by J. S. Barnes

2: 07 - Rave by Konn Lavery

2:47 - Chris Walter mention

3:46 - Dead Inside and Intensity

4:30 - Conspiracies Uncovered versus The Stranger Beside Me

5:18 - Books on my Kindle

6:21 - Rue Morgue Magazine 200th issue

7:00 - Suggest a vampire book!

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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My Kindle is bursting, and I received two books this month with another on the way. As usual, there is a magazine in the mix and a call out to suggest recent vampire books!

0:00 - Mergers and Acquisitions

0:36 - Dracula’s Child by J. S. Barnes

2: 07 - Rave by Konn Lavery

2:47 - Chris Walter mention

3:46 - Dead Inside and Intensity

4:30 - Conspiracies Uncovered versus The Stranger Beside Me

5:18 - Books on my Kindle

6:21 - Rue Morgue Magazine 200th issue

7:00 - Suggest a vampire book!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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Here are short reviews of two very well-written extreme horror novellas I've read recently. One outshines the other in quality and level of extreme content, but both were enjoyable to read and had me thinking of them long after - not only for their shock value but in terms of levels of extreme content and how the reading public has rated and reviewed them so far.

I've been moving away from star reviews for a lot of my reading, not only with extreme and splatterpunk horror. It is easy to rate true crime since I have specific objectives when I read it. How can one have specific objectives when reading fiction? That is getting harder to answer: then I read books like this and it all goes out the window, where ironically, the stars are.

A Gathering of Evil by Gil Valle from Comet Press https://amzn.to/3u0NvHu

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison from Death's Head Press https://amzn.to/2PoO1Qi

Both have to do with violence against women, cannibalism, rape, stalking, ... and then necrophilia in various stages of decomposition to putrefaction and abortion, one book more so than the other.

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I can earn when you shop on Amazon ▹ https://amzn.to/34mJamZ

Buy these books locally ▹ https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks

Find my books and more at ▹ https://www.amazon.com/author/lydia

Like horror films? Wes Knipe and I talk horror over at Splatterpictures.net on Dead Air Horror Podcast! https://splatterpictures.net/

For writers, I recommend ProWritingAid ▹ https://prowritingaid.com/?afid=6264 I have a lifetime membership. Well worth every penny!

✮ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ✮ music used by permission of the artist

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca

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A new review of a book that has been out since 2011, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster by Judge Sam L. Amirante. It may be the Honourable Sam L. Amirante (Ret.) depending, and it was co-written with Danny Broderick. Really fantastic book, all around, and recommended highly for true-crime fans or just those looking for a new angle on this case.

Pick up a copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3v45KMa

I will definitely say it is a five-star read as it gives a really fresh insight into the spiral the killer went through when he was apprehended. It chronicles the investigation, his capture, his confession, his mindset, the psychiatrist's opinions, and of course what was found in his house. There is a little bit near the end of course talking about his execution.

True crime books seem to be mostly written by journalists, former journalists, retired cops, or some sort of law enforcement otherwise but few seem to be written by lawyers. Of course, there's a shining example of Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi who was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson family trials. With John Wayne Gacy defending a monster we get a bird's-eye view from the bench sitting beside the monster himself.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

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A little list of the recent new releases from Horror Writers Association authors, with at least one that is going on my reading pile. How about you?

00:00 - Welcome

01:17 - New books

Your Turn to Suffer by Tim Waggoner from Flame Tree Press

Family Solstice by Kate Maruyamafrom Omnium Gatherum Media

The Devil's Mistress by David Barclay from Silver Shamrock Publishing

99 Nightmares by Joseph VanBuren from Sykophunk ProductionsThe Mother We Share by Jennifer Soucy from RhetAskew Publishing

Stained Mirror, A Serial Killer Memoir by Gianni Franco

Matters Most Macabre by Tylor James

Telecommuting by L. Marie Wood from Mocha Memoirs Press

The Promise Keeper by L. Marie Wood from Cedar Grove Books

Typical Books is voted 3rd in a list of the top 35 Canadian Book Podcasts!

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This month I feel I read more than I did ~ perhaps I've forgotten a book in my March wrap-up! Here is a peek at books to come, books that had been, and books of the future...

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Books I read this month:

A Gathering of Evil by Gil ValleConspiracies Uncovered: Cover-ups, Hoaxes, and Secret Societies by Dr. Lee Mellor

Daughters of Darkness by Stephanie Ellis, Alyson Faye, Theresa Derwin and Ruschelle Dillon

How to Behave Like a Human Being by Easton Blake

Let’s Go Play and the Adams’ by Mendal W. Johnson

Books that came in this month:

The Last Book on the Left by Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski and Ben Kissel

12 Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker

Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell

To Be Read:

Shadowy Natures by Rebecca Rowland

Punishment by Hope by Eric Hofstatter

Intensity by Dean Koontz

Helminth by S. Allessandro Martinez

Coming soon!

Rave by Konn Lavery

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

For Rye by Gavin Gardiner

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Let's Go Play At The Adams’ is often compared to Jack Ketchum’s book The Girl Next Door and is the only novel by Mendel W. Johnson. Published in 1974, the year before I was born, I felt a need to review this especially since it has wildly varying praise and scorn.

A current cult classic it seemed to be hard to get hold of through the years, being reissued a couple of times. In 1974 came out by the small company and these are those coveted hardbacks you might see for $100 at Abe books. That company was incidentally bought out by Harper. This was released in the 80s by Bantam Books and this is probably, I'm just guessing here, what most of the paperback copies at least see are from. Then, of course, with much fanfare, this book was chosen by Grady Hendrix and Will Erickson and whoever else is there is at play to be reprinted after being featured in Paperbacks from Hell.

From what I understood going into this it was a grimy novel talking about coming of age and rape and violence and I wasn't sure if it was rape-revenge because I never got into spoiler territory with any of the descriptions.

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The Book Addiction Tag has been making the rounds and I wanted to play along. This is a super fun one to sit back and watch so I hope you have fun with it too!

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Some creators versions I really enjoyed:

Atterntion! https://youtu.be/Q4GNvwQs_do

Jason's Weird Reads https://youtu.be/LdgQOE0UJOA

Merphy Napier https://youtu.be/cFWOVHHQBW8

Questions:

1. What is the longest amount of time you can comfortably go without picking up a book?

2. How many books do you carry on your person (physical or device) at any one time?

3. Do you keep every book you buy/receive or are you happy to pass them on to make space for more?

4. How long would you spend in a bookshop on a standard visit?

5. How much time per day do you actually spend reading?

6. Where does the task “picking up a book” appear on your daily to-do list?

7. How many books do you reckon you own in total (include ebooks)?

8. Approximately how often do you bring up books in conversation?

9. What is the biggest book (page count) you have finished reading?

10. Is there a book you had to get your hands on against all odds (searched bookstore, online digging, stalked author, etc.)?

11. Is there a book you struggled to finish because you refused to DNF?

12. What are 3 (some) of your main book goals for the year?

13. Have you ever had the privilege of converting someone into a reader (by inspiration or your incessant nagging)?

14. Describe what books mean to you in FIVE words.

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Daughters of Darkness features a stunning cover and four authors; Stephanie Ellis, Alyson Faye, Theresa Derwin, Ruschelle Dillon. Plus! At the end of the video I have an update on the grand giveaway happening at @darkbetweenpages : https://youtu.be/RUZiWU7V8ro

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00:00 - Introduction

4:01 - Francois Vaillancourt

4:39 - Theresa Derwin

5:33 - Ruschelle Dillon

6:19 - Stephanie Ellis,

7:44 - Alyson Faye

9:53 - The Giveaway!

The last time I read a book that I can recall that involved more than one author as a short story collection was Triage featuring Jack Ketchum Edward Lee and Richard Laymon. it was fantastic and I don't have a copy anymore - had I known then what I know now I'd have hung onto it as it is hard to come by. Daughters of Darkness, on the other hand, is a fresh release that came out in February of this year so 2021 and it came out in the very middle of women in horror month, so I'm a little behind on my review.

This was a graciously gifted review copy from Ruschelle Dillon, one of the authors featured here and who you may recall from a previous new releases video with her book of the stain and she had also equally graciously interviewed me for the horror tree 2 years ago. Also featured in this book are Stephanie Ellis, Alyson Faye, and Theresa Derwin. So, we have a group of four women writers who specialize in horror of varying kinds in one book.

From the back cover: A quartet of established female horror writers from both sides of the Atlantic have joined supernatural forces to bring you - Daughters of Darkness - a publication from the women-run indie press Black Angel. These stories will take you across the centuries, from Whitechapel to New Orleans, from dark humour to Gothic, weaving the weird with the macabre. Within these pages, meet the myriad monsters these female writers have conjured, letting them loose to roam and cast long shadows.

The gorgeous cover as mentioned I absolutely adore and it was designed by Francois Vaillancourt who is Canadian and you may recognize from many other books covers an author's if you're out there he often designs covers and then has them up for commission beautiful at work and of course on my list of things to achieve the cover by Francois Vallencourt.

A fantastic collection that I do recommend if you are not familiar with these authors or just want to line your shelf with some really nice dark female offerings. I hope to see more of this being that this could be an annual tradition it would be really cool, or just more collections with more than one story by each author. I'd be very interested in collections like that as opposed to the traditional anthology.

Title: Daughters of Darkness

Author: Stephanie Ellis, Alyson Faye, Theresa Derwin, Ruschelle Dillon

Date: February 2021

Publisher: Viking Press

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The first I recall hearing of this crime was a podcast, as usual, on a bus ride to work. The more we know of Isreal Keyes, the more fictional the case feels. Here I review American Predator by Maureen Callahan.

00:00 - Review and case basics

15:37 - Jump to the star rating

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This book is far more gentle than most podcasts on the topic as there are no photos. Other than that, it is a very straight-forward true crime book in that it starts with the most media-centric crime that many may know, and dives into the motivations we can glean from the killer’s personality, and presents a strong profile made of as many facts as the author surfaced on Keyes.

“I had a lot of access to the FBI agents working this case. I spoke with them often and in-depth for a year and a half. One of the things they would never really talk to me about, and one of the things I could never find any record or documentation of was: What was the childhood like? What was his adolescence like? What was his upbringing like? That’s a key part of the narrative when you’re trying to figure out how a person becomes a killer.”

One thing that makes this unique among true-crime books that are written after the fact, is that many authors of lower caliber true-crime wait for low-hanging fruit. In this case, the FBI had not released much of the information and it seems the author met with resistance at every turn in her research:

“I became very determined to know more about what the FBI was hiding. And so I wound up suing the federal prosecutor in Alaska to the tune of like $30,000 to get interrogations with Keyes that they had been hiding, 13 hours worth. They’d ordered psychological evaluations, which were done very soon after his arrest, and are the greatest self-report we have about his childhood.”

https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/who-is-israel-keyes-serial-killer-rapist-book-american-predator

So many aspects of this case present rabbit holes. His travel tactics, his stalking and terror campaigns, his kill kits buried across the united states; it is not a wonder there have been podcasts, documentaries and books galore but he remains a killer few know much about. For more, I do recommend the podcast ‘True Crime Bull****” which is fantastic though, for me, not the most easy-listening due to copious adverts and music at the end of each episode so I have to scramble to skip forward through them then again for the music which is detestable.

Recently, eleven rudimentary skull pictures painted in Keyes’ own blood found in his cell were released to the public from the FBI. This was near the ten-year anniversary of his death and though there is little help to be had to identify a missing person from a stick figure skull artwork.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-keyes-serial-killer-skulls-blood-48-hours/

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Had a great time with this quick read: The Low, Low Woods. A weird tale set in the crags of Pennsylvania in a town not unlike Centralia. Lovely stuff. I didn't rate it but it is a solid 4 of 5 for me ~ with potential depending on how much more if this series there ever will be.

There's something in the woods... Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-Think? Well, they're not doing so well either.

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Here is a quick list of new horror book releases for March 2021 from Horror Writers Association authors. The first day of string here and it is still chilly - but not as cold-blooded as some of the horror books we read!

Mentioned here are:

Grim Fairy Tales: Folk Tales from the Crypt by Joseph VanBuren from Sykophunk Productions (I said Jason in error)

Fake Nora by Kelly Martin from Monster Ivy Publishing

With Teeth by Kevin Kangas from Kangas Kahn Films

The Space Between Two Deaths by Jamie Yourdon from Gen Z Publishing

The Nirvana Effect by Brian Pinkerton from Flame Tree Press

I missed the new Tim Waggoner book! I'll mention it in my wrap-up video!

Your Turn to Suffer by Tim Waggoner from Flame Tree Press

As mentioned, if you know of any French-language and preferably horror booktube channels please let me know as I would love to subscribe. Have an ooky spooky spring!

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To categorize horror, we often look to film or our favourite genres. Here is a quick workshop deriving into the types of horror and how they rank in scares against one another. There may be aspects of books you read or write that are not horror but have these elements!

This is based on a presentation for a local writer's circle on horror sub-genres. Being a writer or a reader of fiction we see the focus of a work does not always link to how 'scary' it is. Taking some popular methods of defining horror, I express them as degrees of horror and show how most horror sub-genres are linked to a measure of how terrifying they can be.

Explore some other methods of defining horror in media from the very broad to the narrow and find some ideas on where to market, learn, network, or perhaps find your next book to read.

The PDF version of the slides can be found here: http://nightface.ca/Peever-Writing-Horror.pdf

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1:43 - Who I am

2:45 - Where Horror Fits in Literature

3:07 - Supernatural vs Natural

8:25 - Degrees of Horror

13:22 - Where to Market Your Horror

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February was a little slower in reading but I also wiggled in two books for reviews, not listed. A few new books have come my way so am curious if anyone here has read them - especially the Gil Valle book!

A little further into Daughters of Darkness and loving it!

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So many new books out there! Here are a few fiendish finds that are out now or super soon!

0:00 - Welcome and preamble

2:10 - New Books

6:37 - Wrapping it up...

Check out more at https://horror.org/newreleases/ and certainly check out the Bram Stoker Award shortlist at https://horror.org/2021/02/2020-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot-announced/

As mentioned, subscribing to my newsletter will net you a copy of Pray Lied Eve 1 and 2 in PDF format so head to http://lydiapeever.ca/ and the button is on the left...

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Books mentioned...

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman from Quirk Books

Hard for Hope to Flourish by Melanie Bell, Nyamweya Maxwell, Thomas Ouphe Rachel A. Brune from Crone Girls Press

Wolf Soul by Raquel Paiva

His Own Devices by Douglas Wynne from Promethean

Kill the Babysitter by Stephanie Sparks

There Goes Pretty by C.C. Adams from Dark Minds Press

The Portable Nine by Pete Mesling from Other Kingdoms Publishing

Thank you and have an ooky spooky day!

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The Green River Killer was a nearly mythological case for decades. Even after apprehension, plea deals, and the identification of missing and murdered women, it remains one of the most chilling cases born of systemic hatred and violence.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Gary Leon Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In court statements, Ridgway later reported that he had killed so many that he lost count. A majority of the murders occurred between 1982 and 1984. (Wikipedia)

The son of a task force investigator, Jeff Jensen, brings us to the table while his father, Tom Jensen investigates the crimes and interrogates the killer. A black and white hardcover tale that is a great addition to my shelves.

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/missing-persons

https://www.namus.gov/

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Haunting houses are maybe more insidious than haunted ones. They stay with you, they shore up in your memory and lay tacky wallpaper on your flesh. They hang their hat upon your head. In horror fiction, the descriptions of these houses fuel film depictions and the stuff of our nightmares. Or wildest dreams, depending on your version of the ideal home...

0:00 - Welcome back to Typical Books

0:39 - What makes a house haunting?

3:53 - Deadfall Hotel and desolation

5:54 - The Finch Sister's House in Kill Creek

7:45 - Wild Fell and isolation

10:16 - The House of Usher and surroundings

13:19 - The Uncanny in House of Leaves

15:09 - Summary of Haunting Houses

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A light bit of sweet chocolate for Valentine's Day ~ courtesy of Regina's Haunted Library!

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Horror Hearts BookTube Original Tag

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2. A booktuber who is brutally honest.

3. A booktuber who's like a brother.

4. A booktuber who's like a sister.

5. Who's your booktube crush? (optional)

6. A booktuber you'd love to have dinner with.

7. A booktuber who shares your taste in books.

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Ever wonder what it is like putting yourself online? Being a content creator raises questions that we are asked often but also mull over ourselves.

Here is The Content Creator Tag from Colin C. Martin at The Horrific Podcast

See the original at The Horrific Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYS_8St3Ne4

Thank you, Colin, for your hard work and support of all that is horrific!

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I was tagged in a few appreciation posts lately so there will be another coming soon - but all of these lists are a little different. This list, however, is the big one. The mothership! I keep feeling I left some out, but this really lists all of the booktubers I love. There may be a new one in here for you! Here are the #booktubersilove questions:

What is the first Booktube Channel you subscribed to?

What is the last Booktube Channels you subscribed to?

Name 3 Booktubers you love and want to shout out to.

Name your favorite YouTube channel that is not a Booktube channel.

Tag 14 Booktube channels that you love.

Now, many here have already been tagged so this can be both tagging and suggesting channels that may be new to you! There are more than 14 here...

Harpies in the Trees

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww

Regina’s Haunted Library

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

The Bookubus

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8VcOuuI9F0v6IogfTzCAg

The Shades of Orange

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadesofOrange

That’s What She Read

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6b5KyxVclQZUrGpeYJvDA

AreYouIntoHorror?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XZ2kthmOKxZQ0MkFuE-Hg

Madame LaMort

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt88W3fmdyMd3v6_PDz_Cmw

Marie McWilliams

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj6gAjgPxaZ5AGUlj4ALwzw

Anda Kent

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3LMtl64NOPBHpik_C2oFw

Grumpy Andrew’s Horror House

https://www.youtube.com/user/grumpyandrew

Jason’s Weird Reads

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE7TBrU4fNlW26iNIaQSdjg

Kasha’s Book Semetery

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC34119-4OAO28LHKQS7h0mg

Cameron Chaney

https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmovieguy

The Nihilist Geek

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEeh_PeMzA0DjjZ-IJe8Oog

Gloria McNeely

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicjhWwivzrXvTgMt46C7Lw

Author D.L. Tillery

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5v6knJ5HmOTsoI9w6arTg

Dane Reads

https://www.youtube.com/user/danecobain

Coffee, Cats, and King

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCF_-Ph9WSAUCUyJIROSGw

Paperback Junky

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_Bj_lFQ5nCbM6flBlKhYA

Spinster’s Library

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzccJ52d8ACSM2nRqkRxT7w

Hungry Bookworm

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1nKJr-SaG_LJ3xsfbFG5w

Book Blather

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOS6G7lgT0SfR7CAML0EcSg

Weird Reads with Emily Louise

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4nw0vqSbymJ-ZguMS2-RQ

Brad Proctor

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUkghQDBEKMtWbaMI1tZUw

Horror Gardener

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZkCs21J1XcDumxTayTi8A

Uptown Horror Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-9EiDna-pBNuDpXnWkNhXg

Adam Cesare

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTByQJNDsXplCSib_QW2lYw

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Some new horror fiction for February!

Here is a little clutch of books that crossed the new release list this month. More to come, as ever, and more reviews too. The office bookshelves had a makeover to the sights are a little different and a work-in-progress.

A special and heartfelt thank you to all who sent best wishes after our eldest dog passed away.

Books mentioned:

Hearts Strange and Dreadful by Tim McGregor from Off Limits Press

Friday Night Massacre by Michael Patrick Hicks from High Fever Books

The Gulp by Alan Baxter

Hollow Skulls and Other Stories by Samuel Marzioli from JournalStone Publishing

The Witch's Spiral by M.K. Hancock

The Hobgoblin of Little Minds by Mark Matthews from Wicked Run Press

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To start the year off right, I read two true-crime books, a true-crime graphic novel, and a few short novels too!

There has been a delay in my reading this week and quite possibly the next, but I read enough in January to make up the slack so will record in February with The Green River Killer, something on Isreal Keyes, and new horror releases update as ever. Have an ooky, spooky day!

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A five-star true-crime read. Pick up a copy: https://amzn.to/392UM1h This is the only book-length work by Michelle McNamara that was published posthumously. There is a related podcast and a docuseries on HBO.

Known as the Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, or Original Night Stalker; the Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and former police officer guilty of 13 murders, 50 rapes, and 120 known burglaries in three one-man crime sprees across California between 1973 and 1986. Part of his behaviour includes obscene phone calls, hang-up calls before and after the crime, stalking, and possibly written threats or taunts. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 72 years old, was arrested for these crimes in April 2018 and given more than 12 life sentences.

I first heard of the Golden State killer after listening to an episode of the Generation Why podcast: https://podbay.fm/p/the-generation-why-podcast/e/1447693531

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Preceded by Mapping the Interior and followed up by My Heart is a Chainsaw. There could be short works in between these as he is sometimes found between the pages of Datlow anthologies and literary quarterlies. The first thing I read by him stopped me in my tracks: 'Father, Son, Holy Rabbit' found in The New Black : https://amzn.to/2N2KWUA

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4.5/5 - While not entirely a cover to cover love affair for me, it was a page-turner in that I was invested in the characters. All of them. From the mysterious to the dead. There were moments I felt I was reading a point-form note of what the author intended to write for the next page. I enjoy the curt and introspective style Jones uses but these few spots left me wanting.

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Here are a few books out now or super soon. As noted in the show I often toy with adding other new releases to these lists but like to keep them short too. Would it be worth making videos that are longer with other popular releases included?

Either way, we have some fabulous cover art here!

Horde by Bryan Cassiday

Shiver: A Chilling Anthology edited by Nico Bell

Helminth by S. Alessandro Martinez from Omnium Gatherum

Dead of Winter by Lindy Ryan from Black Spot Books

Wrath Child: A Supernatural Thriller by Erik Henry Vick from Ratatoskr Publishing

Spooky Writer’s Planner by Loren Rhoads and Emerian Rich from Horror Addicts.Net Press

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Here is a tag talking about books that relate to the last year. A timely tag if ever! I was tagged by the fangtastic Marie McWilliams - thank you! The prompts for this tag and chapters are:

00:00 - Intro and discussion

01:58 - Pandemic

02:48 - Politics

04:02 - Hate

04:47 - End Times

06:23 - Crime

09:45 - Hope

I tagged John at Books of Blood https://www.youtube.com/user/jmountwib

and Anda Kent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3LMtl64NOPBHpik_C2oFw

~ have a great start to 2020 everyone, and enjoy a good book!

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Welcome the new year in a cozy corner with a good book along with me.   A little tree tour and thank you to all for hanging out and talking books!  This is a holly jolly horror haul of three beautiful books from my birthday and two other books I will be reading this week over Christmas 2020.   

Some Ray Bradbury, some Bram Stoker, and vampires lurk while werewolves rage in small-town Pennsylvania. A fitting list to end the year!  We have a Suntup edition of Bradbury with Fahrenheit 451 and the Transylvania edition of Dracula bound in lovely red velvet.   Have a wonderful holiday and a quiet week of reading before the dawn of 2021.    

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Have some late shopping or gift certificates to spend? This may help!

You can see these and more at horror.org/newreleases where I curate the wall of eerie eye-candy.

New Horror Books Coming Soon and Out Now • Late December 2020

Everything Burns: https://amzn.to/3oZL3ha

The Last Wolf: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/296318/484521573

Books mentioned:

Midnight in the Pentagram by Kenneth W. Cain from Silver Shamrock Publishing

Survive With Me by Kenneth W. Cain from Alien Agenda Publishing

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Dorian J. Sinnott

The Guardians, Vol. 1: Baltimore, 1862 by Kevin L. Williams from KLW Publishing

The Withering by Ashley Dioses from Jackanapes Press

The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, Vol II by MJ Sydney from LVP Publications

One of Us: A Tribute to Frank Michaels Errington by Kenneth W. Cain from Bloodshot Books

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Have you ever been asked why you like horror? I sure have... Here is a really great ongoing conversation among horror fans here with the new tag by Marie McWilliams: Dilemmas of a Horror Nerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-IzxCKcqsI

I was tagged by Regina's Haunted Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFN5B4Emfig

Thank you, Marie and Regina! Also, be sure to Google or search this tag for all the other videos as everyone has a different take!

I tag : Anda Kent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3LMtl64NOPBHpik_C2oFw

The Glamour Ghoul https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjfEmUezIu7pgRnKCRKmWA

Rachel at The Shades of Orange https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadesofOrange

0:00 Preamble 1:30 1. How can you watch that stuff and is there something wrong with you? 4:48 2. Doesn't it give you nightmares? 6:48 3. Why do you like being scared? 8:30 4. Aren't horror movies and books all the same? 11:05 5. Why don't you watch something nice and cheerful? 14:47 It's Fake Blood Guys

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Here are some New Horror Books for Early December! Not a lot yet, as this is a quiet month compared to Horror-Christmas as Halloween is. Some nice collections to spruce up your haunted storytime for the winter months, and a nonfiction pick...  

Collective Darkness, a Horror Anthology edited by Elizabeth Suggs, Brandon Prows, and Jonathan Reddoch from Collective Tales Publishing and Editing Mee

The Devil's Due: Nothing Is Ever As It Seems Volume I  edited by Adam Messer from Valhalla Books  

Excavating Stephen King: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction by James Arthur Anderson from Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield   

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These are my top 5 so very open to interpretation. It goes without saying, I thought, that these are also all very well written books. There are rough books to read that lose the craft along the way just like there are extreme horror films that have low production value or lose the plot. These are books that deal with extremities and disturbing situations are not recommended for all readers even though they are expertly written and tell gut-wrenching stories.

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In this video, we talk about Stephen King, Edward Lee, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum, Ryan Harding, Garth Ennis, and smile as we mention Richard Laymon.

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With scant time for a few books this month, I planned on three and skimmed a fourth for Nonfiction November

Behind the Horror by Dr. Lee Mellor https://amzn.to/2Vh622t

The origin stories behind our favourite horror films.

Sons of Cain by Peter Vronsky https://amzn.to/2HWVX7K

A study on the origin of our sadistic urges and just how prevalent serial killing has been... and is.

I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara https://amzn.to/2JmV9d0

Written over years in near-obsessive fashion, the author died not long before this infamous killer was caught. Surreal, all around.

Providence After Dark by T.E.D. Klein https://amzn.to/2Vh5TMt

A fantastic take on the work of H. P. Lovecraft and reflections on others work, be it in the form of interviews, recollections, or essays.

This makes me want to read the old guy’s letters more than anything! I can earn from affiliate links, via amazon books or bookshop.

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This was highly interesting to me, thanks to the thoughtful answers given by my peers here on Booktube; Dane Reads, Jason’s Weird Reads, Spooky Noodles, and Elizabeth Sagewood. I encourage you to seek out and follow their shows. There is a real conversation here and while I may not offer the most poignant insight, they do. There are glimpses into our personalities here, and different facets of 2021 captured. A very interesting tag, even if I am a month late from Halloween.

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My top five horror books are some I've talked about before. Maybe this is your top 5 or Mount Rushmore of horror literature from to 70s too! This will be a recurring thing ~ as it was hard to pick five, and so many other books naturally make lists of their own so if there is something you'd like to see let me know :)

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Want new weird fiction?

How about old and obscure weird ghost stories from 1920 by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor in her only collection, From Out of the Silence.

I picked this up at the Merrickville used book store and loved every page. It is a wonder that I've not heard of her before, so I am pleased to have found this. It is a Typical Book that you can find a copy of here: https://gothictexts.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/from-out-of-the-silence-1920-by-bessie-kyffin-taylor/ Buy the book ▹ https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooksor via Amazon Affiliate: https://amzn.to/2UABXur

From the back jacket: A rare and highly regarded collection of the ghostly and strange "The author of this collection of tales of the supernatural, Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, undertook few forays into the realms of the fiction of the ghostly and other worldly and the result is this book of seven short stories, From out of the Silence. Originally published in an undated edition, but believed to have been released around 1920, the collection appeared just two years before the author's death. Kyffin-Taylor's style is judged by some to be reminiscent of the acclaimed writer of supernatural tales E. F. Benson, and must therefore be of interest to any aficionado of the genre, because the comparison elevates the quality of these tales into heady company. That said, one might mourn the fact that Kyffin-Taylor's output was so small. So concise a volume, published so long ago and with such an uncertain history must be a rare find indeed on the antiquarian market, and so the Leonaur editors are doubly pleased to make it more widely available by including it in the Leonaur Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction series. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket."

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Here are some picks from new releases for November. All should be out now too!

The Low Low Woods y Carmen Maria Machado from DC Hill House

Dollhouse by JC Bratton from Blue Milk Publishing

The Underclass by Dan Weatherer from Demain Publishing

Life Among the Tombstones by H.R. Boldwood from Third Street Press

Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks, illustrated by Kelley Jones from DC Comics

The Pizza Deliveryman's Tale by Ronan Barbour from Green Gingerbread Press

The Five Turns of the Wheel by Stephanie Ellis from Silver Shamrock Publishing

Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror: Stories of Wizards, Werewolves, Serial Killers, Alien Worlds, and the Damned by Phil Slattery

Unknowing, I Sink by Timothy G. Huguenin from Independent Legions Publishing

Dark was the Night by Angel Leigh McCoy from Wily Writers

Roseneath by Dana McSwain from Webb House Publishing

Burials by Jessica Drake-Thomas from Clash Books

Severed Wings by Steven-Elliot Altman from Wordfire Press

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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I am heading into Nonfiction November and thought a little tag will work and an explanation as to why. These are certainly Typical Books. Original tag by ABookOlive: https://youtu.be/fnv6OwURHZIas noted on Triumphal Reads: https://youtu.be/I9xJP88RoxM

1. How much nonfiction do you read?

At least one book a month, sometimes more

1. What kind of nonfiction videos do you make/do you WANT to make on Booktube?

More true crime, and more writers craft books

1. What’s your favorite sub-genre of nonfiction?

Bio and true crime

1. Do you have a favorite nonfiction book?

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

1. What do you think keeps people from wanting to read more nonfiction?

Holdovers from school perhaps, or the idea that it offers no escapism

1. Why do you like nonfiction?

It offers as much as fiction and more with secondary or tertiary reading links

1. What’s a nonfiction book you read because of Booktube?

Story by Robert McKee

1. What’s the best nonfiction book you’ve read lately?

Behind the Horror by Lee Mellor

1. What are some of your nonfiction reading goals?

More modern true crime since most of what i have is encyclopedic or old.

1. What’s your advice for incorporating more nonfiction into your reading diet?

Consider the true stories behind your favourite films and books and read the associated biographies. Reading about the history of your area may prove as fascinating as events like the Franklin Expedition or Titanic.

BONUS: Give some recommendations of nonfiction Booktube channels that you love!

Triumphal Reads

Roseanna Sunley - Business Book Reviews

Bookish

Books mentioned:

Story by Robert McKee

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

On Writing by Stephen King

The Universe in a Single Atome by the Dalai Lama

Everything you Know About God is Wrong edited by Russ kick

The Professor in the Cage by Jonathan gotshall

Rue Morgue magazine

Ottawa Notre Dame Cemetery by jean-yves Pelletier

Spook by Mary Roach

The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman

Behind the Horror by Lee Mellor

Ghost Towns of Ontario by Ron Brown

The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

The Lady and her Monsters by Rosanne Montillo

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Here are a few books coming out but first, we visited Merrickville not long ago and found a few books in a lovely bookstore there:

Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë

From Out of the Silence: Seven Strange Stories by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Two of those will feature in my Halloweek reading!

Then, out soon or just now from HWA authors:

Behind the Midnight Blinds: with Other Devilish Things by Marty Young from Things in the Well

The Shopkeeper: Curios, Curiosities and Rarities by G.A. Miller from Dark Imagination Publications

Only The Broken Remain by Dan Coxon from Black Shuck Books

Eight Cylinders by Jason Parent from Crystal Lake Publishing

The Sadeiest by Austrian Spencer from Darkstroke books

The Messy Man by Chris Sorensen from Harmful Monkey Press

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Here is a tag based on the booktube and horrortube anthology Local Haunts. Watch the original tag video by Dane Cobain - https://youtu.be/4-KHWvUkfD4

First, here are a few images of the Dionne Quints Museum. It isn’t haunted, but that never stopped people from investigating it, saying the ghost of one of their brother’s is trapped in the closet, and other myths. The attic of the house is creepy, I can assure you, as are some of the dolls and damaged artefacts they don’t display. For this one, I am going to tell you a little about a different local haunt.

0:00 Intro and About the Tag

1:52 The Questions

10:01 About the Stories of Local Haunts

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Wow. This tag is a challenge, more than a fun tag. I failed terribly. There is a second part to this that I will attempt but I don't expect much better results! If I ever combine all of the books in the house to a proper library I will do this one again, for sure.

Watch the original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4YnTYrGs48

The original time to beat is: 8 mins... spoiler ahead: it took me 19.

The Challenges

1. Do you have a book with deckled edges?

2. DO you have a book with 3 or more people on the cover?

3. Do you have a book based on another fictional story?

4. Do you have a book with a title 10 letters long?

5. Do you have a book with a title that starts and ends with the same letter?

6. Do you have a Mass Market Paperback book?

7. Do you have a book written by an author using a pen name?

8. Do you have a book with a character's name in the title?

9. Do you have a book with 2 maps in it?

10. Do you have a book that was turned into a TV show?

11. Do you have a book written by someone who is originally famous for something else? (celebrity/athlete/politician/tv personality...)

12. Do you have a book with a clock on the cover?

13. Do you have a poetry book?

14. Do you have a book with an award stamp on it?

15. Do you have a book written by an author with the same initials as you?

16. Do you have a book of short stories?

17. Do you have a book that is between 500-510 pages long?

18. Do you have a book that was turned into a movie?

19. Do you have a graphic novel?

20. Do you have a book written by 2 or more authors?

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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The Autumn Vibes Booktube Tag was great fun to watch so I was compelled to play along even though I was not tagged. Watch the original tag video by Jade of Jaded Reader - https://youtu.be/E4EzsU4bFwg ~ now, I did both the book and booktube host but only one will do in any case.

✮ The Questions ✮

Pumpkin Patch 🍁

Name a book or booktuber that gets you excited for Fall and is tons of fun!

Cameron Chaney, also of Library Macabre! https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmovieguy

and Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus

Ghost Stories 🍁

Name a book or booktuber that feels like a friend and goes deep on heavy topics.

Mers at Harpies in the Trees! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww

and Shirley Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House

Knitted Sweaters 🍁

Pick a book or booktuber that brings you comfort and joy, once there you never want to leave.

Alex of Hey Little Thrifter! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8VcOuuI9F0v6IogfTzCAg

and The Shining by Stephen King

Dark Academia 🍁

Pick a book or booktuber that is both romantic and alluring with just a bit of edge

Roya of RGsDevilship! https://www.youtube.com/user/RGsDevilship

and Voices in the Snow by Darcey Coates

Corn Mazes 🍁

Fun by day, spooky by night, get yourself a book or booktuber that can do both!

John at Books of Blood! https://www.youtube.com/user/jmountwib

and Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

Victorian Flare 🍁

Name a both classic and regal book or booktuber with a quirky flare!

Rachel at The Shades of Orange! https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadesofOrange

and Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Witchy Vibes 🍁

Name a book or booktuber with witchy vibes, an abundance of nature, the sweetness of spring and the coziness of fall!

Regina of Regina’s Haunted Library! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

and Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem

Also! The pumpkin pillow tutorial was in part found in https://youtu.be/iI2BeMd2TDg and in my own spooky, crafty little heart.

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Here are a few Typical Books and atypical ones too! There are so many new books coming to horror this month and this is just a tiny sample I'd say. First, a two-book haul from the thrift store where I also found a nice pumpkin tea light holder, so I share a few photos of some of the pumpkins around the house.

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - Thrift Store Haul

2:17 - Pumpkin Decor

3:07 - New Horror For October!

The Spirits Talk to Me - Neil D'Silva and Sarbajeet Mohanty - Hachette India

A Season of Whispers -Jackson Kuhl - Aurelia Leo

The Bone Carver - Monique Snyman - Vesuvian Books

Cursed - Richard Schiver - Abiss Books

Greyfriars Reformatory - Frazer Lee - Flame Tree Press

The Curse of the Mountain - Tyler Cram - darkstroke books

The Seeking - Marlena Frank - Parliament House Press

The Empty Space, A Kate Pomeroy Mystery - Linda Watkins - Argon Press

Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future - Sheree Renée Thomas - Third Man Books

Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire - Nicole Givens Kurtz - Mocha Memoirs Press [Review coming soon!]

Caitlín R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction - James Goho - McFarland

Downwind, Alice - C.C. Adams - LVP Publications

The Realm - L. Marie Wood - Cedar Grove Publishing

The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie - Redhook (Hachette)

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Local Haunts is out now! The anthology of book tube hosts and authors spearheaded by R. Saint Claire of Regina’s Haunted Library My story, Fading Applause in Quintland draws on growing up down the road from the real Quintland, For a year I worked at the museum and learned even more about them in my time there and never shook the quaint and queer of Quintland itself.

Enter her giveaway now! https://youtu.be/E7kX8WRD9gM

Pick up a copy! http://getbook.at/localhaunts

Proceeds will go to First Book https://firstbook.org/

Quints Quick Links

Video: House where Dionne Quintuplets lived faces uncertain future https://youtu.be/4AjJvAGNt50 this shows the grounds mentioned in the story

Annette and Cecile talking about saving their first home https://youtu.be/Cd1zQKnaql0

The Dionne Heritage Walking and Driving Tour (Google Map) https://bit.ly/3l8fgJf

The Dionne Quints Heritage Board https://dionnequintshome.com/

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Mina's Child by Paul Butler is a Typical Book and it fits right up on the Vampire shelf beside Dracula et al despite not being hard-boiled horror.   

This was absolutely enjoyable. Not knowing what to expect, as there are so many vampire stories related tot he original Stoker book, this fits alongside Dracula and the Dacre Stoker books as well. While relying less on a supernatural angle and much more on setting and character, this is a new gothic that will please readers of literary fiction, historical, and horror alike.  

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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It is a Typical Book in that I have a morbid fascination with cult and fundamentalist... zealots? Having grown up in a very spiritually open-minded home and town, this is creepy to me on other levels perhaps.   Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling - Religious or Cult Horror Fiction Review  I was having some sort of small allergic reaction so my skin is rough and maaaaaybe should have held off on the video but I wanted to talk about this one!

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Here are a few new books hitting the market soon, and a bonus re-haul of books I rescued from my workplace!

This time we get to see....

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #5: A Primer to Han Song by Eric J. Guignard from Dark Moon Books

Sisters of the Moon by Alexandrea Weis from Vesuvian Books

Unsafe Words by Loren Rhoads from Automatism Press

Under Another Sun by D.M. Siciliano from Dark Diva Press

Bloody Britain by Anna Taborska from Shadow Publishing

Highway 181 by D. S. Ullery from Amazon

Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 2 by Rachel A. Brune from Crone Girls Press

Terror Nova by Various Authors from Engen Books

In the bonus portion, I admit to reading only one James Patterson novel even though I took his Masterclass. Spilling all the tea here!

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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It is getting close to October ~ Here are some books that I found genuinely creepy of spooky over the years. Some classic horror masters and a few new ones here too!

Thank you to Mers at Harpies in the Trees for tagging me!

https://www.youtube.com/c/HarpiesintheTrees

This comes from the super fun BookTagUrIt 👻 Follow them on twitter at @BookTagURit and tag #SpoopyBooktag if you do this one too! Be sure to watch Mers' rendition as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIViR6TKpk

Questions:

1. A book that scared you, while you were actively reading the words on the pages

2. A book that you didn't find scary while reading it, but after you had the time to think about it and sit with it, you became frightened, scared or creeped out.

3. A book that was so creepy that you still think about a scene from it years later.

4. A book that you couldn't finish because it was either too creepy or too gory.

5. The scariest/creepiest book you've read based on a cult or group of people with sinister values/goals.

6. A horror book that takes place in an otherworldly location.

7. A horror book where the main character(s) have to be or do something horrific in order to do what they deem as 'right' or 'necessary'

8. Your favorite horror book that takes place in the summer.

9. A horror book that felt like you were actually watching or reading the script for a classic horror movie.

10. A horror book that's not scared to utilize modern technology (ie. mobile phones, internet, social media, robotics etc.)

11. A horror book that was written before the year 2000 that you felt was ahead of its time.

12. A book that you feel greatly changed or influenced the horror genre for years to come.

13. A horror book that is so unique that you've yet to come across anything like it.

Books mentioned:

The Shining by Stephen King

The Border by John Avide Lindqvist

In the Hills, The Cities by Clive Barker

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Haunted by James Herbert

Survivor Song and A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Trembley

Cabal by Clive Barker

Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

The 'Geisters by David Nickle

all posted on my Bookshop page ▹ https://bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology has a story of mine in it and is ready for Kindle pre-order now! They are all Typical Books! But one more than others...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H8PTJN1

To be released on October 1, 2020

Watch the official launch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNIJdTYvQgk

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre | Alison Peirse

The Night She Fell | Jennifer Soucy | Independently Published

Ghastly Tales of Gaiety and Greed: Unauthorized and Haunted Cedar Point | E. F. Schraeder | Omnium Gatherum

Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares | Robert P. Ottone | Spooky House Press

Stalking the Moon | Angel Leigh McCoy | Wily Writers LLC

But Worse Will Come | C.C. Adams | Dream's Edge Publishing

Sins of the Father | JG Faherty | Flame Tree Press

Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny | Douglas Ford | Madness Heart Press

and without further delay, the authors of Local Haunts!

https://www.youtube.com/user/kevwashere Kevin David Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmovieguy Cameron Chaney

https://www.youtube.com/user/danecobain Dane Cobain

https://www.youtube.com/user/artistjamesflynn James Flynn

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEeh_PeMzA0DjjZ-IJe8Oog Mihalis Georgostathis

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyyVGhL40HcP43ghEnH-Ug Nicholas Gray

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdpiYtY70xPg-z8AFwjy5hg E.D. Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/user/grumpyandrew Andrew Lyall

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj6gAjgPxaZ5AGUlj4ALwzw Marie McWilliams

https://www.youtube.com/user/sp0okychick Lydia Peever

https://www.youtube.com/user/theking4mayor Ken Poirier

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9R3IXcHdOyT-qCR9J0kRw Ryan Stroud

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA R. Saint Claire

https://www.youtube.com/user/ItsMikeysMind Michael Taylor

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5v6knJ5HmOTsoI9w6arTg D.L. Tillery

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_Bj_lFQ5nCbM6flBlKhYA Matt Wall

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE7TBrU4fNlW26iNIaQSdjg Jason White

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjg6jxuLpD5nrX1MZPbSgpg Cam Wolfe

"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUNjItSnnJfGY9ei1zqV0FA CJ Wright

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Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Shadows And Tall Trees 8 is a Typical Book with atypical tales. As with any collection, there were some I enjoyed more than others and one that will stay with me for years.

From Undertow Publications and edited by Michael Kelly, this is a great snapshot of weird horror fiction today: https://amzn.to/31O4Pnj

00:00 - 01:52 (Introduction and Hello)

01:53 - 04:31 (Thank you to 600 Subs!)\

04:32 - 10:34 (Shadows & Tall Trees 8)

10:35 - 11:42 (Have and Ooky Spooky Day!)

Shout out to some other ooky spookers:

Regina's Haunted Library https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

Harpies in the Trees https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww

Cameron Chaney https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmovieguy

Books of Blood https://www.youtube.com/user/jmountwibWelcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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These Diablo related books are Typical Books ~ as noted in my last video, here are three books gifted to me over the past few years. Diablo III Strategy Guide - 2012 The Art of Diablo III - 2012 The Art of Diablo - 2019 You can find me around 12:30 p.m. EST at https://www.twitch.tv/typicallydia and I've uploaded a little clip of that silliness here to watch next too! https://youtu.be/DDhmVaYhepE

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It is a Typical Book, and how! We went out this weekend as noted in photos I posted Sunday. Among the treasures - or loot, in keeping with the Diablo III Collector's Edition we brought home - I spied a new and lovely edition of Dracula on the shelves.

This, an almanac, and I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid came home, which has been on my list for a long time. Just a small haul, as it is not like I don't have many lovely books to read right now. In other news, we are back at it on Dead Air Podcast at https://soundcloud.com/deadairpodcast, and you can catch me daily at 12:30 EST playing Diablo III as noted on https://www.twitch.tv/typicallydia!

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Today on Typical Books we have some new horror fiction releases for Mid-August 2020 including:

Belle Vue by C. S. Alleyne from Crystal Lake Publishing

The Apocalypse Strain by Jason Parent from Flame Tree Press

As an Old Memory by Vic Kerry from Macabre Ink

Last Case at a Baggage Auction by Eric J. Guignard from Harper Day Books

The Occultists by Polly Schattel from JournalStone

A Stick of Doublemint by Gene O'Neill from Dark Moon Books

What Hell May Come by Rex Hurst from Crystal Lake Publishing

Nice! More to come once September hits!

Thank you again to Paul Butler and Inanna Publications for the lovely copy of Mina's Child

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Today on Typical Books it is a #Horrorin24 Wrapup! And of course, my review of Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay.

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Today on Typical Books we have, movies! Specifically, a coffee talk as my dearest friend Amy, The Glamour Ghoul, and I sit down for a coffee talk about kids on bikes saving the neighbourhood, or even the world! What do Stranger Things, It, Monster Squad, and a dozen other 80s theme horror films having in common? Secrets. Do these kids on bikes ever grow up? Darn tootin'!

This is a booktube, horrortube and Canadian content crossover!

Amy is in the midst of Ph.D. studies and when we get together, watch out! We may start discussing the Donner Party over brunch! Add her channel to your horrortube list here:

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00:00 (Introduction)

00:53 (Kids on Bikes)

04:00 (Nostalgia and IT)

06:30 (Frog Brothers versus the Tropes)

13:50 (Cabin in the Woods)

22:40 (Secrets in the Town)

33:50 (The Turning)

36:00 (The Lodge)

44:00 (Cults in The Lodge)

47:30 (My Friend Dahmer)

58:20 (The Boy - 2015)

1:02:00 (Kids on Bikes Grow Up and Get Into Cars)

1:03:35 (Girls on Bikes)

1:10:31 (Double Victimization Being a Kid and a Girl)

1:14:00 (AHS 1984)

1:25:00 (Random Horror Films We Adore Lately)

1:35:04 (Plugs and Upcoming Fun)

1:38:30 (Wrap Up and Leave a Comment for Next Time!)

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Today we talk about Red by Jack Ketchum. It is a Typical Book.

"The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he’s fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren’t hunters, they’re rich kids who don’t care about the river and the fish and the old man.

Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man’s dog, his best friend in the world. And when the boys shoot the dog—for nothing, for simple spite—he sees red, like a mist before his eyes. And before the whole thing is done there’ll be more red. Red for blood…"

I have not watched the film but really wanted to read the book beforehand. While Red is not necessarily a horror novel, neither are most of Ketchum’s stories. He is counted in horror, I believe, for the feeling he gives readers which gives name to our cherished genre - the emotion of being horrified. This book does not let the reader off easy, and while there are no overt ‘horror elements’ the first chapter is a terrifying and maddening scene. There is no one that can stomach that first chapter and then not read on to see it through.

One must.

One owes it to the character, the writer, and themselves. I’ll cover more on this when I talk about Red and the other books I’ve read for the #horrorin24 readathon on Typical Books via YouTube. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed this story. The realism plays well and will stick with me.

While the story could be summed up as old-man Avery Ludlow versus the McCormack clan, the characters were really one-note; but aren’t we all? The realism worked with that, however, so I didn’t mind. The dialogue was very true-to-form as well. It was a very small town and I felt transplanted to the place, the fishing creek, the countryside farm at night.

4.5/5 - Books scorer of 91 which is unsurprising considering what an enduring classic this is.

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Today on Typical Books we have some new horror fiction releases for August 2020 including:

The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby from White Lion

Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner from Raw Dog Screaming Press

The Haunt at Hogg Run by J.P. Barnett from Evolved Publishing LLC

Shadowy Natures: Stories of Psychological Horror edited by Rebecca Rowland from Dark Ink Books

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan from Crooked Lane Books

The Ninja's Blade by Tori Eldridge from Polis Books / Agora Books

Some Kind of Monster by Tim Waggoner from Apex Publishing

Dominion, An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora edited by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald and Zelda Knight from

Aurelia Leo

Dust & Time by Mitch Sebourn

Ghost Dance by Betty Fry

Unleashed by E. L. Jefferson

Negative Space by B.R. Yeager from Apocalypse Party

Wow! That was quite a few and I suspect there will be more mid-month as usual.

TikTok Spooky Library A to Z

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is truly a Lydia book. My grandmother owned this--likely since 1938 when it came out--and short stories as well as The Scapegoat by du Maurier which I did read when I was too young to really grasp what it was about. This was too long in coming and I thank whoever sold a copy to Second and Charles so I could have this nice old Doubleday edition for #Horrorin24. This fills the slot for a gothic and also a book that has been on my TBR for a year!

Also thank you to my cousin Jason and two summers on a Bristol which made the yacht-talk here all the more gripping.

The narrator, the future Mrs. de Winter, works for a Mrs. Van Hopper who I suspect as /nouveau riche/ with her brash and uncouth ways. She is spotted in France by the recent widower Maxim de Winter then very shortly married and whisked off to his home, Manderley. It is there that this young and meek woman is nearly blown over by the gale that is the deceased Rebecca.

5/5 - Books scorer of 102 which is unsurprising considering what an enduring classic this is.

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Haunted by James Herbert was a perfect read for me. Practiced pacing, ghoulish thoughts, and a remarkable landscape peopled by fascinating characters. It is a Typical Book.

111 of 114 on the Book Score Spreadsheet - 5 stars

https://james-herbert.co.uk/haunted/

Also, I will be swapping out Shadows and Tall Trees 8 for Red by Jack Ketchum in my reading list. I'll read the anthology later as I am really enjoying it but for a book that had Red on the cover? I can't not!

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Today on Typical Books we have a third Hometown Horror Haul! I picked up some amazing horror stories as my favourite store was open with good safety guidelines. This was a welcome diversion from being home!

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

Someone's Watching by Andrew Neiderman

Mind In Chains Edited by Dr. Christopher Evans

The Quick by Leigh Ellis

Tibbs House by Sam Holroyd

Dark Voices For Edited by David Sutton And Stephen Jones

Succubus by Campo Verde

13 Tales Of Horror by 13 Masters Of Horror

The Brides Of Lucifer by Miriam Lynch

Moon by James Herbert

Gone South by Robert R. Mccammon

Black Christmas by Thomas Altman

Red by Jack Ketchum

The Beast House by Richard Laymon

Doll's Eyes by Bari Wood

Secrets In The Dark by Darcy Coates

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Back from vacation and we have some new horror fiction releases for Late-July 2020 including:

The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus from Tor

One Eye Open: Strange Stories for Peculiar People Volume 2 by K.G. Lewis

Devil's Creek byTodd Keisling from Silver Shamrock Publishing

Mina's Child by Paul F Butler Inanna Publications

The Buck Stops Here by Sean Seebach

Tituba The Intentional Witch of Salem by Dave Tamanini

Demon In Me by Jennifer Soucy 

More, as ever, at horror.org/newreleases

See the video I made for Chris and his most recent ænorex release! https://youtu.be/w20ftzrcvi0

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Pretty excited for these blasphemous beach-reads (we really need a horror term for this, too true).  Here is my reading list or TBR for the Horror in 24 Read-a-thon ~ #horrorin24   

Prompts:  

1. Read a book with red on the cover

2. Read a haunted house / ghost story

3. Read a book featuring supernatural creatures (zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc…)

4. Read a Gothic horror novel

5. Read your favorite childhood spooky story

6. Read a psychological horror story

7. Read ANY horror book that has been on your TBR for a while

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The How Do You Read A Book Tag is an original tag by Julie at The Hungry Bookworm! A very thoughtful tag is was so happy to be tagged in!

~ The Questions ~

1. How do you go into reading a book? Read reviews? Spoilers?

2. Do you take a book by its face value?

3. Do you read a book as the author intended?

4. As a reader or reviewer do you read a book differently knowing you are going to review it? Do you venture into other genres to review? This is an open tag so feel free to do it as well, and let Julie and I know when you have so we can watch along. #howdoyoureadabook If you have read this far, since I don't have a community tab yet I want to note I have no lipstick on here for forgetful reasons - if I looked washed out, that is entirely why!

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Thank you all for watching over the years, and if you joined the conversation in 2020, welcome!  I had filmed a 'day in the life' sort of thing but wasn't sure what to do with it, so here we are! 5 little things you may not know about me to celebrate being at 500 subscribers 🐣  

1. dig mother nature

2. drink a lot of coffee

3. am a bit of a minimalist

4. have two dogs (and adore cats)

5. have a home office

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First see the video I made for Chris and his most recent ænorex release! https://youtu.be/w20ftzrcvi0  - I am so proud of this!

Today on Typical Books we have some new horror fiction releases for July 2020 including:  

All the Dead Men by Errick Nunnally  

Black Stars Above by Lonnie Nadler

Grotesque: Monster Stories by Lee Murray  

Jennifer Strange by Cat Scully  

On Quiet Earth by Chris Kelly

Shadowy Natures: Stories of Psychological Horror by Rebecca Rowland

The Plot by Michael Moreci and Tim Daniel

The Stain by Ruschelle Dillon

Unboxed by Briana Morgan

Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger  

Weird World War III anthology from Baen Books  

with more at http://horror.org/newreleases/  

Just Us Cops to be found at http://tncomedy.net  and be sure to head over to Harpis in the Trees: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww

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Today we have my (first) Mid-Year Book Freakout for 2020 ~ Sam at Thoughts on Tomes made such a compelling video I thought I’d have some fun with this one: https://youtu.be/GjnpeTAG8CQ

The original #midyearbookfreakout tag is from Chami and Ely at Earl Grey Books and is from 2012!

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1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2020.

2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2020.

3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.

5. Biggest disappointment.

6. Biggest surprise.

7. Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you)

8. Newest fictional crush.

9. Newest favorite character.

10. Book that made you cry.

11. Book that made you happy.

12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)

13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

Are you having a book freakout? What even is that?

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have Gutterbreed by Marty Young. I read the ebook version which was thoughtfully provided by the author. Thank you! Snag a copy for yourself here › https://amzn.to/3inyjPc   This was a five star read for me and a nice addition to dark, edgy and near extreme horror.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have the fantastic tag, 'Second Tome Around'. I was tagged by the equally fantastic Alex at Hey Little Thrifter so do watch her video at: https://youtu.be/8GL4VNZqg-I  And add her channel here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8VcOuuI9F0v6IogfTzCAg  Hungry Bookworm made the original tag : https://youtu.be/uex8I3qiiWg   I feel this was cut out for horror fans as so many of our formative books were found used, and so many horror books can only be found used!  I tag  @Books of Blood https://www.youtube.com/user/jmountwib  and @RGsDevilship https://www.youtube.com/user/RGsDevilship if interested!  

The Questions:  

1) Do you buy second-hand books?

2) What is/was your latest purchase?

3) What condition do you find acceptable? ie, tatty or not tatty, etc.

4) After you have read said book, do you keep it for a re-read or re-donate it?

5) Do you have a favourite place you like to go to when looking for second-hand books?

6) Hardback or Paperback, do you have a preference?

7) Have you found any real gems?

8) OPTIONAL - Find a book from your shelves that you can donate to a good cause or your local charity or Goodwill shops  

9) Go ahead and tag some people!

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Today we have The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell.  This is a creeping occult tale that gets under the skin if you let it. Written with a brisk and casual manner it takes a little getting used to the tone for some readers.   Get your copy here : https://amzn.to/3hX6pZV

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have The Bookshelf tag! I felt this was the PERFECT end to my bookshelf tour. MinxLaura123's Wacky World - original tag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZTgM5waqA BookCase Tag Q's ---

1. How many bookcases do you have?

2. What colour are your bookcases?

3. How do you organize the books on your bookcases?

4. Have you got any ornaments / Trinkets / Lights etc on your bookcase?

5. What would your dream bookcase look like?

6. Have you read all the books on your bookcase?

7. Are your books on your bookcase Fiction / Nonfiction / Mixed

8. How many books are on your bookcase ?

9. What genre of book have you got the most on your bookcase?

10. What book isn’t on your bookcase, but you wish was on your bookcase?

11. What is your favourite thing about your bookcase?

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have the final part of the bookshelf tour!  Anne Rice! V.C. Andrews! Clive Barker Hellraiser and James O'Barr The Crow! All kinds of insanity!   I am so glad to be done this tour but feel I may revisit this if I do get new shelves in a few years. Thank you so much for watching my tour! It was so much fun :)

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have Horror in the Woods by Lee Mountford. This was a Book Market find from a previous haul, so I am glad to bet getting to it. A perfect little splatter novel to follow House of Leaves.   Lee's work is on Amazon ▹ https://amzn.to/37CWQuw

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Today on Typical Books we get into my final thoughts on House of Leaves. It was... okay. Okay? Well, it does say on the facing page "This is not for you".   Thank you to Jo-Anne for piquing my interest in this book all over again. I did like the horror aspects here and it was a perfect time to read it!  Mentioned in this video... a link to a wiki which is a potential spoiler so I regret I cannot type it here. Unfortunately in saying as much, I fear I am feeding the unearned (? perhaps) mystique that this book already has enough of.  What a Catch-22.  I gave it 2.5 stars... and I liked it.

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have a little haul, some upcoming ARC reading and new horror releases from HWA authors with books like:  Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower by Ronald J. Murray  

Jagged Edges & Moving Parts by Pete Mesling

Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles Edited by Ellen Datlow  

The Hollow Vol. 3  by Various Authors

Corpse Whisperer Sworn by H.R. Boldwood

The Dark Stranger by Lorne McMillan

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have a dozen of my favourite vampire novels and collections. Two books I don't have make the list too.

Thank you to Jason of Jason's Weird Reads for the idea, and fo the upcoming video on top vampire fiction too!

I first knew of Jason through the Darkness Dwells podcast, and then heard a familiar voice on The Great Lakes Horror Company podcast and only then did I discover his booktube channel!

Books mentioned are:

Vampires by David J. Skal

Dracula by Bram Stoker

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Let the Right One In by John Avide Lindquist

Vampiric Variations by Nancy Kilpatrick

Revenge of the Vampyr King by Nancy Kilpatrick

The Only Child by Andrew Pyper

In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson

Spiders in the Daffodils by Nelson W. Pyles

A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba

30 Days of Night by Steve Niles

And also:

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

The Radleys by Matt Haig

Head over to http://www.vampirelibrary.com/fiction/ for a huge list of vampire fiction and nonfiction too!

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have seven of my favourite nonfiction vampire books. A handful of books I don't have make the list too.

Thank you to Jason of Jason's Weird Reads for the idea, and fo the upcoming video on top vampire fiction too!

I first knew of Jason through the Darkness Dwells podcast, and then heard a familiar voice on The Great Lakes Horror Company podcast and only then did I discover his booktube channel!

Books mentioned:

Vampires by David J. Skal

Vampire

Vampire Taxonomy

Vampires of Lore

The Vampire Encyclopedia

Vampire Nation

Wish list!

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Collins Jenkins

Also good ones:

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly Craft

Bite: A Vampire Handbook by Kevin Jackson

Vampires: The Occult Truth by Konstantinos

The Vampire In Lore and Legend by Montague Summers

Night Creatures: The Enchanted World Series

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have part nine of my horror bookshelf tour.  Wow! One more to go. This bookcase has a mix of extreme and classic horror, some reference and manga. A real wildcard. 

If you are visiting the show in June of 2020, please take a look at:

mudrathon on twitter : https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mudrathon

Horror Writers for Black Lives Matter : https://www.gofundme.com/f/horror-writers-for-black-justice

And at any time, you can consider a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Centre : https://www.splcenter.org/ who do amazing analysis where most dare not look.

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Opinion at Halfway Through the Hall  Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have a progress vlog on House of Leaves. It has been 20 years since this book was published, so better late than never I suppose.   Not much to say except that I love the story of the Navidson Record, and not so much the 'other' story contained in the footnotes. Judging from the response here and on Instagram - where I posted a short vlog and portion of this - I am not alone.

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have new releases from HWA authors for late May 2020 and my thoughts so far on reading House of Leaves. This was a DNF from years ago that I picked up after a request from Jo-Anne.

Books mentioned:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski -

Gutterbreed by Marty Young

It Came From... by Jim Nemeth & Bob Madison

Android Girl And Other Sentient Speculations by Michael H. Hanson

Awake: Tales of Terror by Lou Rera

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Quiet Horror for Horsey People  Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have The Pet by Charles L. Grant. As an author of quiet horror, I mean to read more Grant as I had read his short work before this. If you are a fan, let me know the best next read!

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Chilly Gothic Horror for Spooky Nights!

Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates.

This was published in 2020 via Poisoned Pen and is the first part of the Black Winter series.

Clare meets Dorran under the wildest of circumstance. Normally, when a story is at its heart a girl-meets-boy story I balk. I bail. I barf. But not here, as it is more of a girl-meets-house like many Coates novels are.

I can relate to so much of this - driving in the most hellish of winter, being stranded in the cold, dealing with distance between family members be it physical or not. I’ve no real experience with the heart of this story, however, which is a true monstrosity, and it is played out very well.

There are some minor plot questions and some minor gardening, time, and physics questions I had but these are small compared to the scope and plot as I enjoyed it all very much. I could guess that half of my questions would be answered had I re-read back a little instead of ploughing forward, but it was a compelling page-turner if there is one.

Looking forward to the next book in this series and I’ve rarely ever wanted to read a series so that is saying quite a bit!

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have a winner of the giveaway! Congratulations Mindy of Mindy's Book Journey!

Visit her channel here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLd_e77IsqzY455zDEvgFUg

And a Victoria Day Mid-May Catchup of new horror book releases mentioned today are:

Snowblind - Book 3 - Maria Alexander

Weird Dream Society Anthology

Sequelland - Jay Slayton-Joslin

Treasure - Thomas Holladay

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks. 

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books we have, movies! Click through the timestamps below as my dearest friend Amy, The Glamour Ghoul, and I sit down for a coffee talk about horror and film. One theme we return to and explore is the unreliable narrator and taboo fueling what is and is not horror. There is a huge divide in horror fans describing what is horror. Can it be horror without a supernatural element? This is a booktube, horrortube and Canadian crossover! Amy is in the midst of PhD studies and when we get together, watch out! We may start discussing the Donner Party over brunch! Add her channel to your horrortube list here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjfEmUezIu7pgRnKCRKmWA

00:01:00 - Introducing Amy Vosper

00:03:27 - American Mary vis a vis Rabid

00:09:20 - Contagion

00:11:59 - Cold Skin and the Lighthouse

00:13:13 - Can it be monstrous without a monster

00:16:16 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs Black Christmas

00:21:00 - Ophelia the Cat

00:21:22 - Psycho versus Psycho

00:22:29 - Is madness supernatural?

00:25:00 - The Haunting

00:26:26 - The Turning

00:27:27 - The Hysterical Man and Gaslighting

00:31:00 - Supernatural Horror versus Serial Killers

00:41:00 - Terrifier 00:41:43 - Art the Clown

00:46:44 - Make up as horror characters

00:50:47 - Cannibalism in horror

00:51:49 - Caitlin Doherty, the good Death

00:52:53 - The Donner Party

00:55:00 - Spiritual cannibalism

00:58:49 - Animal Violence in horror film

00:59:00 - The Ring

01:04:00 - Cannibalism and Norman Bates

01:06:09 - Psycho via Ed Gein

01:09:20 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre

01:11:10 - The Shining and the Donner Party

01:12:49 - #Horrortube

01:13:43 - How to pronounce macabre

01:14:10 - True Crime Fans versus Horror Fans

01:20:10 - Richard Ramirez

01:21:39 - Robert Pickton vis a vis Ted Bundy

01:23:40 - Movement to not use killers' names

01:25:25 - Luka Magnotta

01:26:10 - True Crime and Horror

01:29:20 - Robert Pickton as the monster

01:30:30 - Paul Bernardo Karla Homolka who?

01:34:10 - Psychology and criminology and Gender Studies

01:35:09 - Jack the Ripper

01:35:20 - Green River Killer

01:36:10 - Journalism - Criminology

01:40:00 - Ted Bundy

01:41:00 - Dark Tourism

01:43:10 - Disney and AJs wicked earrings

01:45:10 - Undertaking LA

01:46:41 - Phantasm

01:53:03 - Ranking Halloween franchise

01:58:47 - Rob Zombie

02:06:05 - Spider baby

02:08:00 - Contact and watch our channels!

02:10:00 - Lydia Peever: If there's ever anything anyone wants us to pick apart...

02:11:00 - Have an ooky spooky day!

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Some tried and true tactics!  Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have an #authortube entry on how I edit my manuscripts. Finishing my recent short story, I was struck by how fast editing goes now compared to when I started. So,. I thought I would share some tips. Not just for horror! This works on long and short fiction too...

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Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have part 8 of the bookshelf tour! We did it! Did what? Got through all the books in my office!  save the V. C. Andrews shelf. That's next - and then we move upstairs!

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have the #stayathome booktube tag. As noted, I am unsure if it is a Book Tube Tag - but here we go! The original is by Princess of Paperback : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyir0...

PROMPTS:

Laying in Bed - book you could/have read in a day

Snacking - guilty pleasure book Netflix - series you want to start

Deep Clean - been on your TBR for ages

Animal Crossing - book u recently bought because of hype

Productivity - book you learnt or had an impact on you

Facetime - A book you were gifted

Self Care - what is one thing you have done recently to look after yourself

BONUS - name a book coming out soon

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates!

Gillespie House is a thing of dreams to me. A modernized old mansion - all of the remnants of its former glory tucked up into the attic, a crumbling graveyard adjacent. Perfection! That it is short I liked, as this was expanded from a short story there was only so much story to tell. Elle starts out curious and travels through the house and time becoming more determined to find explanations in history despite many terrifying nights alone. This reminded me very much of Darling, starring Lauren Ashley Carter. It is far more modern, and far more bloody, but if you like this lone girl angle it is a good fit. The Others also comes to mind here. It is not the top of the pile when it comes to Darcy Coates, but a quick, quiet read all the same. Now it was not a very creepy read, but I enjoyed the atmosphere very much as it lent itself to my memories of an old farmhouse. There was something vaguely Lovecraftian about the grounds and the house itself as well. Not in the mythos sense, as Lovecraft is a different thing to me than most, but in the isolation and the tricks old landscapes play on the mind.

Using the Book Scorer from Harpies in the Trees

77/114 4/5

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have some New Horror Fiction Releases for May from Horror Writers Association authors! See more at http://horror.org/newreleases and thank you for watching! Books covered are: The Pet by Charles L. Grant, Haunted by James Herbert, and the new releases! The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton, The Shadow of a Shadow by R. H. Dixon, His Scream Queen by Brooklyn Ann, Angelus Rose by Loren Rhoads, and Jurassic War by John W. Dennehy

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have The Half-Freaks by Nicole Cushing. I am a huge fan of her work, and this new novella is a gem. For fans of the new weird and a surreal take on madness and death, I recommend this very highly. Suggest a book! I like violent and visceral horror. Comment here on #horrortube #booktube or at http://lydiapeever.ca

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have my reading of "As Is, Where Is" from my collection Pray Lied Eve 2. You can find it an all my books on Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/lydia

This was part of the Local Author Reading Series via the North Grenville Public Library!

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have the Booktube Oldie Tag as created by Monica Kim

This is a good pick for 100 booktube videos!

Find the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtZEYrV0jPU

Questions:

1. how long have you been part of the booktube community?

2. what was your biggest misconception before starting booktube?

3. how do you think booktube has changed since you first started?

4. what is your favorite booktube memory?

5. what are some books that you were introduced to because of booktube?

6. what is something that frustrates you about booktube?

7. what is your hope for the future of booktube?

Let me know if you have done the #booktubeoldie tag too, and thank you for watching dozens of episodes of this series!

Some of the other channels mentioned

https://aenorex.bandcamp.com/ : ænorex - music

Regina's Haunted Library : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

Stacey's Stories : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPJOjEmcWHC1OhGfqJ_Vg

Hey Little Thrifter : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8VcOuuI9F0v6IogfTzCAg

Harpies in the Trees : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NQeOJTFaN3GCGIkzhgsww

The Shades of Orange : https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadesofOrange

Suggest a book! I like violent and visceral horror. Comment here on #horrortube #booktube or at http://lydiapeever.ca

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have books about writing horror! There are two shelves of writer's craft books here, but we start with a few leftover anthologies and collections first...

Dreams Of Terror And Death The Dream Cycle Of H.P. Lovecraft

Matt Shaw Presents Masters Of Horror

Dark Love Edited by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer and Martin H. Greenberg

Monstrosity

Vampiric Variations by Nancy Kilpatrick

Burton Saying Added by Mandy DeGeit

Edgar A. Poe a Biography by Kenneth Silver

On Writing by Stephen King

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

Where Nightmares Come From Edited by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson

Writing The Paranormal Novel by Steven Harper

Story by Robert Mckee

The Lady And Her Monsters by Rosanne Montillo

Gothika by Victoria Nelson

The Hard Facts Of The Grimm Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

Encyclopedia Gothica by Liisa Ladouceur

Zolar’s Encyclopedia Of Almonds Sign And Superstitions

Satanism And Witchcraft by Jules Michelet

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Spooky Canada by S. E. Schlosser

Ghost Towns Of Ontario by Ron Brown

Mysteries Of Ontario by John Robert Colombo

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have some New Horror Fiction Releases for April from Horror Writers Association authors! See more at http://horror.org/newreleases and thank you for watching!

The Cuckoo Girls - Patricia Lillie

Velocities: Stories - Kathe Koja

Walk In The Dark - G.A. Miller

Fractured Tide - Leslie Lutz

Pauper King - E Stuart Marlowe

Dead Trouble & Other Ghost Stories - Aidan Chambers

Stage Fright - Garrett Boatman

Semen - C.C. Adams

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today we have The Horror Life Tag created by Marie McWilliams!

I would love to see more of this tag so let me know if you do this.

As mentioned, there are quite a few interviews of me out there talking about horror, the best being the one from Speculating Canada, but there are a handful: https://www.google.com/search?q=lydia%20peever%20interview&oq=lydia%20peever%20interview

Find the original here: https://youtu.be/MoauOEvl7gc

Questions:

1) What was the first horror movie you remember seeing?

2) What was the first horror book that you remember reading?

3) What is the movie that made you a horror fan?

4) What is the book that made you a horror fan?

5) What is your favourite horror movie of all time?

6) What is your favourite Horror Book?

7) What's your favourite Horror trope?

8) Why do you love Horror?

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Today we have those little books that were hidden behind the shelf in the previous video!

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Today on Typical Books with Lydia  we have an Exquisite Corpse - Horror Icons threaded into an ABSURD Tale of Terror(ish). The 'ish' is key here. With 30 dear and darling horror icon's names on little strips of paper from a previous video, I thought I'd have a little dark fun.   If you have 30 names from the previous tags, feel free to dust them off for a little ad-lib story fun! I'd love to see others do this!  Inspired by Mers and Harpies in the Trees!

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Today we have part six of the bookshelf tour! There a few antiques on this shelf, and a few collections of horror essays.

The High Road Of Song - Book 1

The Best Known Works Of Robert Louis Stevenson

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

First Course In Biology

Chambers Etymological English Dictionary

Rip Van Winkle And The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Prophecies Of Nostradamus

The Rue Morgue Library (Volumes One Through Six Except Five plus Volume 10)

Burton On Burton edited by Mark Salisbury

Treat Me Like Dirt by Liz Worth

The Canadian Horror Film

Men Women And Chainsaws by Carol Clover

Films Of The New French Extremity by Alexandra West

House Of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse

Clive Barker's A To Z Of Horror

The Books I'm Featured In...

The Forward To Wake The Wicked by Christian Baloga

Dark Moon Digest Volume Ten

For When The Veil Drops

Allucinor: The Element of Romance

Nightface

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Today we have the Behind the booktube Tag - I was inspired to do this by John at Written in Blood: Books, Movies, Horror : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbpDw...

As noted, I would LOVE to see more input from horror booktubers!

Special thanks to the original tag creator, The Book Wanderer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClPq...

1. What kind of camera do you use?

2. Do you use any additional equipment (lighting, tripod, microphone, remote etc.)?

3. Scripted or spontaneous; how do you plan what you are going to say in your videos?

4. How many takes do you do when filming?

5. If you use music in your videos, where do you find it?

6. How do you make your thumbnails?

7. What do you use to edit your videos?

8. Any tips, tricks or hacks when it comes to filming/editing?

9. In your opinion, what makes a good video from a production standpoint?

Let me know if you do this tag!

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Today we have Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus as a review and a little Coffee Talk about upcoming reading, stuff to watch, what I am playing, and a little on how I am coping with being indoors. 

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Today we have the continuation of my bookshelf tour. Here is where we get some mix-match horror and true crime featuring:

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Kink by Kathe Koja

Skin by Kathe Koja

Strange Angels by Kathe Koja

The Rats by James Herbert

Usher's Passing by Robert Mccammon

666 by Jay Anson

Doctor Mütter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Cold North Killers by Lee Mellor

The Professor In The Cage by Jonathan Gottschall

Sons Of Cain by Peter Vronsky

Hunting Humans by Elliott Leyton

Indoor Plants From A To Z by Beverly Wyatt

Popular House Plants

The Herb Book by John Lusk

Also, a reminder should you want a code to download a free copy of Pray Lied Eve 1 or 2 for Audible, just let me know! You can email me, use the contact form on lydiapeever.ca or reach out on twitter or Instagram. Thank you!

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Today we have free books! A lot of authors have been offering books and here are mine for your enjoyment, and some others who inspired me or have work coming soon: http://twitter.com/anndynegativehttp://twitter.com/nelsonwpyles http://amazon.com/author/lydia

Some talk about The Octboer Boys by Adam Millard and new releases from HWA authors! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/sp0okych...

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today we have some of the books that were bought from Feb 29 onward, plus a little film fun. We are self-isolating for the most part, since we are healthy, want for little, and one of us works from home. All is well despite our province being in a declared state of emergency. For more on Phantasm check out Regina's Haunted Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tz-... And more creepy cozy, check out Harpies in the Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxx_... Books hauled here are:

Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

Sleeping Beauties by Owen King and Stephen King

Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield

Haunted by James Herbert

The Half-Freaks by Nicole Cushing

Coffin County by Gary A Braunbeck

Horror in the Woods by Lee Mountford

The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates

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Today we have part 4 of the bookshelf tour! This is the end of the first set of shelves that hold trade paperbacks. By the end of this tour, you will see how disorganized it all really is! Here we have O to Z and the start of some anthologies...

Featuring:

Zoo by Otsuichi

The Only Child by Andrew Pyper

Wild Belle by Michael Rowe

A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba

Psychedelica Gothic by Dale L Sproule

Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The Wolf's Head by Peter Unwin

Psycho Sanitarium by Chet Williamson

Taaqtumi

Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume One

Dark Harvest

Re-Terrify:Horrifying Stories Of Monsters And More

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Today on Typical Books we have ~ Bookshelf Tour Part 3 ~ Trade horror from Hendrix to Otsuichi.

If you are visiting the show in June of 2020, please take a look at the #mudrathon on twitter, Horror Writers for Black Lives Matter https://www.gofundme.com/f/horror-writers-for-black-justice, or consider a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Centre https://www.splcenter.org/.

This is the third shelf I cover, and only one more of fiction (for now) until we get the true crime books and oddities! So, to continue with mass-market paperbacks …

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

20th Century Ghosts by Joe King

Horns by Joe Hill

The Bedwetter by Lee Allen Howard

A Life Transparent by Todd Kiesling

You're Crazy An Anthology

The Screwtape Letters by Cs Lewis

Teatro Gottesco by Thomas Ligotti

The Beloveds by Maureen Lindley

The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward by Hp Lovecraft

Dog Blood by David Moody

Volk by David Nickle

Goth by Otsuichi

Summer Fireworks And My Corpse by Otsuichi

Thank you!

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Today we have The Sex in Literature booktube tag. This caught my eye after Shawn did this so be sure to check out his video!

Sex in Literature : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sobwy...

The Original Tag ~ by Brian of Bookish : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68VB5... - excellent talk! I do agree that sex is often handled poorly and there ought to be more robust depictions of all types of sex... I just don't like to read it!

Prompts:

1. What is a book you have read that comes close to crossing the line between Literature/ Adult Fiction and Pornography?

2. What is a book you have read with a cringe worthy depiction or discussion of sex?

3. What's the most overrated book, with a reputation for being sexy, that you have read?

4. What is your favorite passage from a book about or describing sex or a sexual situation?

5. What is a book you have recently read that you think handles descriptions/ discussions of sex well?

6. What are some books that contain positive and frank depictions of sexual relationships between LGBTQ+ characters?

7, What do think is the best way of depicting sex in literature/ fiction?

1. Tag some people who may enjoy this discussion.

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Today we have ~ Bookshelf Tour Part 2 ~

trade horror from B to G. This is the second shelf I cover, but the first real shelf of the tour. First, we see what is on top of the shelf! Excite!

Here we have mass-market paperbacks ...

Evil Whispers by Owl Goingback

Offspring by Jack Ketchum

The Perfect Machine Brett Savory

Son Of Rosemary by Ira Levin

Omen Iv by Gordon Mcgill

The Rising by Brian Keene

Black Train by Edward Lee

City Infernal by Edward Lee

House Infernal by Edward Lee

Blood Autumn by Kathy Patrick

The Bachman Books by Stephen King

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite

Alarums by Richard Laymon

The History Of Alchemy

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Night Shift by Stephen King

Lupe by Gene Thompson

Trade paperbacks:

Blood Standard by Laird Barron

Kin by Kalin Patrick Burke

The n-body Problem by Tony Burgess

The Society Of Experience by Matt Cahill

The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates

The Deep by Nick Cutter

In The Valley Of The Sun by Andy Davidson

The Bone Cutters by Renee S Decamillis

Experimental Film by Gemma Files

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

With A Voice That Is Often Still Confused But Is Becoming Ever Louder And Clearer

By J R Hamantaschen

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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Today we have True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik. This book has been the darling of the horror press and now of horror booktube with good reason.

"Suzy and her brother, Lim, live with their abusive mother in a town where the stars don’t shine at night. Once the abuse becomes too much to handle, the two siblings embark on a sordid cross-country murder spree beginning with their mom. As the murder tally rises, Suzy’s mental state spirals into irredeemable madness."

Visit the author: https://www.samanthakolesnik.com/

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Today we have the currently reading pile, some new releases from Horror Writers Association authors and new music from ænorex! Check out the music here : https://aenorex.bandcamp.com/releases

Even more horror books at : http://horror.org/newreleases like Slaughter Box by Carver Pike Movie Monsters by Jonathan Thurston

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Today we have a bookshelf tour - or the start of one. I'd like to think of it as the clutch of books we have in the house as they are like that pile of gold a dragon guards, no?

This is a stack of books that get shuffled rarely, and are too dear to fit in a normal shelf.

As noted, check out John's channel Written in Blood : https://www.youtube.com/user/jmountwib

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Palmistry

Shock III by Richard Matheson

The Lively Ghosts of Ireland by Hans Holzer

Faust by Robert Nye

The Dictionary of Music

Lord Byron - selected poems

Hunt the Witch Down

Cabal by Clive Barker

Hell House by Richard Matheson

Psycho by Robert Bloch

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Fortune-telling for Fun and Popularity

Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein

The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Song of Roland

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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Today we have The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht. A whimsical and short horror novel for those who want a darker world of Burton meets Innsmouth.

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Today we have A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba. A light but no less haunting story of The Bamboo - vampiric creatures who fled China for Japan centuries ago.

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Today I will Poe Me A Cup of this delicious tea from BooksAMillion, talk about upcoming reviews for A Small Charred Face, True Crime, and The Monster of Elendhaven - plus I cover three new books coming soon from HWA authors.

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If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

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Today we have my take on this tag or readathon, The Cancelathon. I don't follow the rules entirely but could make an entire second video easily! What a wild topic this is - I urge those interested to watch The Bald Book Geek's videos on this as there was much food for thought that is very on-topic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

The originating video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBZ5... via A. G. Macdonald Did you participate? Were your opinions tweaked by these discussions? Thank you!

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Today we have the New Year's Booktube Tag!

New Year's Book Tag Questions

1. How many books are you planning to read in 2018?

2. Name five books that you didn’t get to this year but want to make a priority in 2018.

3. What genre do you want to read more of?

4. Name three non-book related goals for 2018.

5. What’s a book you’ve had forever that you still need to read?

6. One word that your hoping 2018 will be:

7. Tag a friend!

Pretty in Papercuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEHf...

The original tag: https://youtu.be/1DnIOkVX_Xk

Tags like this are fun because they aren’t so prying and aren’t as repetitive by nature of the answers. Before we get into it, I’d like to say thank you for watching. This channel is old as dirt - nearly fifteen years old - and even if I think of wiping it clean and starting over, I’m comfortable here and I hope you are too. If you are new here hello!

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Today we have a little catch-up, currently reading and upcoming horror fiction where I am half through A Small Charred Face, got the latest Rue Morgue Magazine in the mail and get into new releases like:  

• Untold Mayhem: An Assortment of Violence

• Try Not to Die: In Brightside

• Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror

• Novoya Zima

• The Sunset Call   

and Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror

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Today we have Vampires of Lore: Traits and Modern Misconceptions by A.P. Sylvia - a wonderful non-fiction book dedicated to educating us in all traits vampiric. This is a lovingly crafted book too, so a delight to read and a perfect addition to my writer's arsenal. See more at: goodreads.com

I did receive this book free of charge as noted in the video. Thank you again! Not a paid review as my drive to a review a book is always at my sole discretion.

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

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Today we have a fine haul of books I got or bought over the holiday season.   The Art of Diablo, by Jake Gerli and Robert Brooks from Blizzard,. Joshua Hoffine Horror Photography Book, Full Throttle by Joe Hill, The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht (debut novel), Tales from the Nightside, Charles L. Grant  and the best black t-shirt ever!

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

Thank you to Anchor for hosting! Feel free to comment and let me know what you are reading during your ooky spooky day, and for now, on with the show!

If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer’s perspective, I hope you enjoy this little show.

Feel free to check out the youtube version by searching typicalbooks, or visit me at lydiapeever.ca