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!
✮ Music by aenorex ✮
Degrees of Horror Fiction on Youtube: My quick horror primer for people new to the genre
‘As Is, Where Is’ from Pray Lied Eve 2 read by Lydia Peever
The music of both Lydia’s Books and Dead Air podcast is made by ænorex. Find them on bandcamp or at aenorex.com
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Writing horror shorts: The sparks that lit “The Woods” afire
Sometimes you have to pull a hard left turn… In my new quiet horror story, Only So Far In The Woods, a forager is invited into the muck and magic of the deep Canadian bush—only to discover that some legends are predatory. You can pre-order the ebook right now. The creation of this story followed…
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12 New Horror Books • A late blooming bouquet for June 2026!
Here are some of the top horror picks that came out in June! I’ll have a vide oup soon for July as well. It’s been a soggy stormy Canada Day here, so good weather for summer reading… I even have a book in the mix!
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All Hail the New Flesh • Reading Splatterpunk Zine #1
Welcome to a little series where I get into each issue of the unparallelled zine, Splatterpunk. Started in 2012 by editor Jack Bantry, it is going strong today and we eagerly anticipate the next issue.