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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Scurry by Seann Barbour: Crawling terror
Nothing better than a serial killer story, which I adore, coupled with something that might be creepy on a different level. Roaches. Bugs and pests of all kinds can be creepy and to see a bug or snake unexpectedly can jar in real life.
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When Horror Stops Being Scary • Why actually scary books may not exist
Today I want to talk about a critique I see all the time in the horror community. You see it in reviews, Reddit threads, BookTube comments—people asking for recommendations that will finally, actually, really scare them, like there’s one perfect book out there that’ll do the trick.
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Best New Horror Books • May 2025!
14 books caught my eye from authors both new and well-loved. Some are form the HWA and some are new to me too! There is a little something for everyone – even romance and space travel – one thing is sure, they are all spooky, ghostly, deadly and dark…