Typical Books of Terror: Horror Books and Fiction Discussion

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! 

- 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

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

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! 

- 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

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

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   

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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

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

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

R. Saint Claire is the author of 14 books and novellas including The Ghosts of Dark Hollow, Fashion Victims, Snowblind and has short fiction in the anthology Map to Desire. Publisher and Editor of the charity anthology Local Haunts, Regina is also the winner of the 2020 Watty award in Horror for Code Red where “the vampires are running the asylum!”.

Alongside writing, Regina is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. As an avid reader, she hosts a fantastic channel on YouTube, Regina’s Haunted Library, which is a culmination of all of her chilling skills.

https://rsaintclaire.com/

https://www.wattpad.com/user/exlibrisregina

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

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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

R. Saint Claire is the author of 14 books and novellas including The Ghosts of Dark Hollow, Fashion Victims, Snowblind and has short fiction in the anthology Map to Desire. Publisher and Editor of the charity anthology Local Haunts, Regina is also the winner of the 2020 Watty award in Horror for Code Red where “the vampires are running the asylum!”.

Alongside writing, Regina is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. As an avid reader, she hosts a fantastic channel on YouTube, Regina’s Haunted Library, which is a culmination of all of her chilling skills.

https://rsaintclaire.com/

https://www.wattpad.com/user/exlibrisregina

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWi9uQ2p5aporo1gU5_j1wA

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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

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