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 on my YouTube show Typical Books, or here in written reviews. Take my quick course on the horror genre, “Degrees of Horror Fiction” as a guide for writers new to the genre. You can find the slideshow for that course here: Peever-Writing-Horror
I curate the HWA new releases page and scour book lists for the best horror coming out each month. Check out the New Horror page here for something new to read!
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Best new horror books • 19 reads for July 2025!
So many great horror books are coming this July. It was as if there was a dam that broke somewhere – and this is not even all of them! As you know, I love to bring us the books that speak to me as top horror of the month, with an eye for those with…
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Endless Night by Richard Laymon: Simon says lets play cat and mouse
This was my second pick for this month’s Richard Laymon read-a-thon. As with many of his novels, I was not sure if I had read this before
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How The Book Gets Tubed • Behind the scenes Q&A
Have you ever wondered what goes in to making a Book tube video? I saw Syn at Syn’s Book Nook do this tag and while it is time for the Mid-Year Freak out Tag I am never really freaking out