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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13 New Horror Books • Spooky Reads for April 2026!
In this video I present 13 of the top picks in horror reading coming out this month. Quite a few would be great reads for fall or late summer too, so take notes; I know I am!
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6 Vintage Horror Staples • I’ll Never Stop Recommending These Books
Here are six classic vintage horror books I’ll always recommend, and will never ever part with. There are certain horror novels that never leave your mind. These ones are worn, familiar…
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Nowhere Burning • Reads like a fading memory and I loved it
This is a horror review of Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward, focusing on how trauma shapes its characters and how the story feels more like a memory than a traditional narrative. This is a mainly psychological horror story that feels fragmented, links to something half-remembered that I could not find in the news…