Lydia's Books of Terror

Happy December! There has been a lot of reading going on here as I've overlapped so many books the past month, and have just gotten around to finishing and reviewing some. Books I recently read The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson - https://wp.me/p85rtJ-1ih Gone to see the River Man by Kristopher Triana - https://nightface.ca/triana-river-man/ The Ghost Eaters by Clay Chapman - link to come...

Some amazing books were gifted to me or picked up while thrifting for my 49th birthday. My wonderful husband knows my tastes better than I do! Here we find some Bradbury, Brom, Ballingrud, Ballen, and more! We talk about the Stephen King series The Dark Tower, where I was slowly collecting the old Plume editions—and have now completed that. I suppose I’ll have to find the Scribner ones to finish i...

Last weekend I was at dDread Con Literary Festival in Waterloo and - wow - was it an amazing time. 50 horror authors, some great panels and hundreds of books to be had! *** Today at 1 p.m. EDT I will be at Cliff's Dark Gems!    • Join the wonderful Lydia from @typica...   & Pray Lied Eve 1, 2, and 3 are free on Kindle! https://www.amazon.com/author/lydia *** This is truly the first event o...

There is a thrift store near me - the one I went to literally only 'look' at books during my book buying ban, no less. Now, since I can shop there once again, I try to stop in every month or two. I'm truly looking for one elusive book I want to find in the wild, but always find something interesting instead... ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All social...

Heads Will Roll lives up to the cover and I enjoyed this quite a bit. It's skews a little young though not quite YA, but maybe not as brutal as I had hoped. Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning 2024, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin https://amzn.to/3YY6Lre Cover design by Vi-An Nguyen I think every time I read a camp slasher I go back to Friday the 13th or Sleepaway Camp as far as film goes and in b...

A 'short' update where I talk about the books I am reading - like the latest Stephen King book, You Like It Darker, and the short books I will get to the fall. Also, some gorgeous books my husband picked up on his travels. Have an ooky spooky day! As mentioned, I am not officially taking the Shorty September challenge but maybe some of these books fit in the... Prompts for ‘Shorty Septembe...

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...

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 i...

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 Ed...

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 ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Bookworm decor is here! https://shop.typicalbooks.com/ ▹ All socials, the shop and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever ▹ Read books I wrote...

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. Mo...

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...

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....

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 forth...

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 loo...

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 t...

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...

It is now our annual trip to Apport Books in sunny Emmaus, Pennsylvania. While I picked up books from other stores, they all pale compared to the selection, vibe, and dedication to genre fiction that my favourite bookstore does. Visit Apport in the flesh, or remote-view a selection of books on offer at   / apportusedbooks   . 17 books hauled, about half horror, and all perfect additions to my libr...