Lydia's Books of Terror: Horror Booktube Weekly

Lydia's Books of Terror: Horror Booktube Weekly

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Lydia's Books of Terror: Horror Booktube Weekly episodes

  • New Horror Books • 16 Recommendations for September 2024!

    There are a lot of spooky creepy books out now in 'Augtober' and even more once the leaves threaten to turn. September holds many reading possibilities so here are 16 to start choosing from…

    CriminOlly presents Garbology: The GarbAugust Anthology of Awesome Trash - https://amzn.to/3YOSkWg
    Letters to the Purple Satin Killer by Joshua Chaplinsky - https://amzn.to/3zNKtOq
    Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare - https://amzn.to/4cF8Ex3
    The Dead Children's Playground by James Kaine - https://amzn.to/3xUNkER
    Pay the Piper: A Novel by George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus - https://amzn.to/4bQIVka
    Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror by Ellen Datlow - https://amzn.to/3LtMXUR
    Incarnate: A Novel by Richard Thomas - https://amzn.to/4dp4Yjp
    Sleep Tight: A Novel by J. H. Markert - https://amzn.to/3YMu8Uv
    William by Mason Coile - https://amzn.to/3Wrgpkt
    Flowers from the Void by Gianni Washington - https://amzn.to/3YLJY1F
    Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Dan Kois - https://amzn.to/3zNCi4P
    Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas - https://amzn.to/3SfpYAA
    Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton - https://amzn.to/3y1T0Nf
    The Ravening by Daniel Church - https://amzn.to/3yGwZE0
    Tiny Threads: A Novel by Lilliam Rivera - https://amzn.to/3WQl1j5
    Where I End by Sophie White - https://amzn.to/3M8kxQi
    Next month we will talk about…
    Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram - experimental
    The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen - local author
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    24 min
  • I am bad at YouTube • BookTube

    This is the story of a girl who was not that good at youtube, and when she was bad, she was horrid...

    (We will be back to normal booktube by Sunday with a look at new horror books coming out in September.)
    Rachel from the Shades of Orange had a brilliant idea with this tag. I may not do many tags, but she does even less! I not only had a laugh with some parts of her video, but she had me nodding in agreement, or yelling at clouds as the topic can be subtly dramatic for me. Just when I thought I was over it, Olly did this over at CriminOlly and it was also a very good video. Again, subtly dramatic for me! They are both very good YouTubers with very good channels. Want to see an actual bad booktuber? Well step right up!
    Maybe this was somewhat based on Daniel Greene’s The Worst BookTuber on Youtube, but I didn’t finish watching his video for whatever reason.
    Probably because I too, am a bad booktuber...
    The original video by Rachel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7v-JMoYZE
    Olly's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIomQ5rRsUg
    and related, Regina and James talk about the 'No One Cares' concept on Right Brain Cafe podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kv2xcc2DPI
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    22 min
  • 12 Tales to Terrify! • The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology

    Not long ago I picked up The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology which is a 1960s book put out by souvenir press. The book as advertised contains horror stories of the time chosen by Boris Karloff of horror movie fame. Aside from two outliers most of the stories range from the early 1930s to the late 1950s and of course includes an earlier tale by HP Lovecraft entitled The Haunter of the dark and an Edgar Allan Poe story entitled The Cask of Amontillado.

    Some of the authors here have names that filled me with joy like August Derleth and Robert Bloch. I was very curious to read an entry by Roald Dahl. The surprises, to me, were stories by Theodore Sturgeon entitled The Graveyard Reader and John Jakes’ The Opener of the Crypt which Boris Karloff highlights in his introduction. I very much enjoyed the first story in the book The 13th Floor by Frank Gruber.
    In this video I will talk about some of the stories very briefly without any real description so you can enjoy these stories and discover them for yourself; but I do show the artwork that accompanied each chapter - artwork that may be by the same Illustrator as the cover which is the enigmatic S.R. Boldero. For more on the artist, I read a lovely blog here: https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/11/s-r-boldero.html
    Typical Books EP321 - Boris Karloff Horror Anthology Review
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    13 min
  • Fits & Starts • My August Horror Reading Update

    A quick reading update wherein I go from taking a pew, so to speak, in The Night Church and jump into a missing person case to those who make people go missing on the Scottish Moors with Guy N. Smith!

    Typical Books EP320 - August Horror Reading Update
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    4 min
  • Mid-Year Book Freakout • A summer reading catch-up

    Not a normal video for me but a good time to take stock of my favourites so far, and what is to come. I like using tag videos for a guided discussion on books. Like a very focused speed bookclub for one!

    The Mid-Year Book Freakout discussion questions:
    1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2024.
    2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024.
    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. Favourite new author. (
    8. Newest fictional crush.
    9. Newest favourite 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?
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    9 min
  • True Horror! True Crime • Graphic Novels

    True crime is the most graphic of horror - yet graphic novels are one of the most balanced ways to tell these stories. Perhaps it is the constraints to the page, or the smaller amount of text for lurid details, and in the few book I talk about today the limited palette of colours; often black and white.

    While these are stories we know well - Dahmer, Gein, Ridgway - I found these books told it in a new and arresting way. I am on the look out for more. With the most recent addition to my small collection, Torso, I get to go back in time to the most wicked cold case of all, The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. I got my copy here: https://amzn.to/46jRmTD or find it on BookShop https://bookshop.org/a/12297/9781506730257.
    I'll have a review or discussion soon enough but this comes highly recommended! Have you read this or do you know of a true crime graphic novel I should pick up?
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    ▹ 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/typicalbooks
    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 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! ✮

    15 min
  • Withered • New kid in a haunted town: YA horror novel

    Withered is a young adult hometown horror novel by Canadian author A.G.A Wilmot. The cover and summary of this book sounded so perfect to me! I checked to see if it was YA but it seemed to be a straight-up haunted house, haunted town, haunted past coming-of-age horror so I was sold. Lots of horror stories involving kids, teens, or coming of age aren't YA books so I figured this would be a fit. When ECW asked if I wanted a review copy, I jumped on it, so thank you ECW!

    From the back cover:
    After the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, 18-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some space to recover. But Black Stone feels off; it’s a disquieting place surrounded by towns with some of the highest death rates in the country. It doesn’t help that everyone says Ellis’s new house is haunted — everyone including Quinn, a local girl who has quickly captured Ellis’s attention. And Ellis has started to believe what people are saying: they see pulsing veins in their bedroom walls and spectres in dark corners of the cellar. Together, Ellis and Quinn dig deep into Black Stone’s past and soon discover that their town, and Ellis’s house in particular, is the battleground in a decades-long spectral war, one that will claim their family — and the town — if it’s allowed to continue.
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    ▹ 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 ▹   / typicalbooks  
    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 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! ✮


    14 min
  • Boris Karloff's Anthology, Wes Craven writes fiction and D.L. Tillery poetry! • May Book Shopping

    This is a very small horror book haul featuring the Boris Karloff Horror Anthology, Dead and Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fountain Society by Wes Craven, and The Worm and his Kings by Hailey Piper… with a special unboxing of D.L. Tillery's new poetry collection Thorns of My Heart.

    I'll talk a little bit about what I'm reading right now, what I just read, and about some reviews forthcoming. The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendoline Krist may just be my favourite book of the year so far and we'll just wait and see to see if it becomes the favourite book of 2024. Well, I don't have a whole bunch of photos from my little tiny vacation I do have one Sunset photo included in this video which may be of interest because it is for seconds of pure relaxation. heading out to the library book sale this weekend so there may be some more Acquisitions to come but in the meantime here is some contact information for DL Tillery ~ thank you so much for watching have a new key spooky day!
    D.L. Tillery, The Mistress of Horror - https://www.authordltillery.com/
    Buy Thorns of my Heart now! https://rb.gy/jwfp26
    Watch the trailer :    • Thorns Of My Heart Official Book Trailer  
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    ▹ 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 ▹   / typicalbooks  
    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 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! ✮

    15 min
  • My Booktube Identity • Is horror a style?

    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: What ...  
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    ▹ 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 ▹   / typicalbooks  
    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 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! ✮

    9 min
  • New Horror This Spring • Scary books out April and May 2024

    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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    ▹ 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 ▹   / typicalbooks  
    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 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! ✮

    24 min

About Lydia's Books of Terror: Horror Booktube Weekly

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Hi! I am Lydia; a Canadian horror author and reader who explores the most beautiful and diverse genre: horror. From classic to modern books, and often splatterpunk and extreme novels, I read horror almost exclusively and share it with you weekly.