Typical Books of Terror: Horror Books and Fiction Discussion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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