Lydia's Books of Terror

Lydia Peever
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Hi! 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 weekly. I curate the HWA new releases page and scour book lists for the best horror coming out each month. ✮ Music by aenorex https://aenorex.bandcamp.com ✮ Find my own books and more at ▹ http://typicalbooks.com Patreon is Bookworm Central for sneak peeks ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks Socials and news ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

  1. May 26

    A Late May Haul of Rare Used Horror and Lost Splatterpunk Gems

    I was very lucky with a few unplanned book hunting trips this month, and one opportunity for collectibles that I could not pass up. This week on Lydia’s Books, I got into some neato Nancy Drew, obscure Canadian splatterpunk, and a Paperbacks From Hell find that shocked me... 00:00 - Unplanned book haul01:00 - Now Reading: The Mouth is a Coven02:48 - Re-Read Used Books in Stittsville05:30 - Brian Horeck and Minnow Trap07:14 - Stittsville Fleam Market for 1930 Nancy Drew 09:03 - Mammoth Books Sale finds ft. Riley Sager11:06 - Toronto True Crime12:49 - Such Nice People - Scoppettone in the wild16:10 - Patrick Lestewka - splatterpunk gems20:34 - Afterword on collecting versus consuming books22:19 - Have you read any of these?The Brian Horeck article at typicalbooks: https://typicalbooks.com/publishing-v...Get signed Nick Cutter books: https://nickcutter.com/shop/ ✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮The Mouth is a Coven by Liz WorthNear Death by Nancy KilpatrickMinnow Trap by Brian HoreckThe BUngalow Mystery by Carolyn KeeneThe Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn KeeneMiddle of the NIght by Riley SagerMissing from the Village by Justin LingDown and Out in London by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliSuch NIce People by Sandra ScoppettoneMother BitchFight by Ed Lee and Patrick LestewkaImprint by Patrick LestewkaVehicles by Patrick Lestewka#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber Typical Books 391 - A May Haul✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    23 min

  2. May 12

    Fleeing the Red Sky • All the Fiends of Hell Review

    Today I will be talking about All The Fiends Of Hell by Adam L. G. Nevill. This was a recommendation and I really should have read it last year when Mers and Olly were talking about it! This was really great and for a fairly thick book at about 400 pages, I read it in three sittings. I have wanted to read more from Adam Nevill as I loved The Ritual, which I read after seeing the film but was well aware of the writer through hearing him talk on This Is Horror podcast. His being a self-published or hybrid author fascinates me, as does his very down-to-earth storytelling methods. We also have a proclivity for similar design. When Brittany recommended the book a few months ago I bought it right away; his new book was coming soon so I wanted to get into a Nevill headspace. Thank you Brittany! Typical Books 390 - Fiends of Hell✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮All The Fiends Of Hell by Adam L. G. NevillRitual Limitedhttps://amzn.to/4mzrE5Rhttps://adamlgnevill.com/#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    23 min

  3. May 5

    14 New Horror Books • A Macabre Mix of Reads for May 2026!

    For May there is a really good mix of horror for all kinds of tastes. From western slasher to witchy haunts, we even have some fairytales and sci-fi poking up above the blackened earth. Forgive the mixed metaphors, as it is springtime where anything can happen. As usual, there are too many to choose from but unlike last month, I've no advanced reading copies to remark on. Still reading last month's clutch! If you have read any of these be sure to let us know...✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat CassidyMay 5, 2026https://amzn.to/4dmkUVS Let’s hope you make it home in one piece.Neon Moon by Grace R. ReynoldsMay 5, 2026https://amzn.to/4epPor3 She Waits Where Shadows Gather: A Novel by Michelle TangMay 5, 2026https://amzn.to/4uqfrTR The Blood Year Daughter by G.G. SilvermanMay 8, 2026https://amzn.to/4utEPrW Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica OjedaMay 12, 2026https://amzn.to/4cP0xkc Make Me Better: A Novel by Sarah GaileyMay 12, 2026https://amzn.to/4n1TSGw Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl by Lauren OsbornMay 12, 2026https://amzn.to/4ekPSic Femme Feral: A Novel by Sam BeckbessingerMay 12, 2026https://amzn.to/42fiX7t Decomposition Book: A Novel by Sara van OsMay 19, 2026https://amzn.to/3P1GHZM Shy Girl: A Novel by Mia Ballard (unavailable)May 19, 2026The Dorians by Nick CutterMay 19, 2026https://amzn.to/4utx995 The Temptation of Charlotte North by Camilla BruceMay 19, 2026https://amzn.to/48Dt8X6 Dead Weight by Hildur KnútsdóttirMay 26, 2026https://amzn.to/4uqkKTe House of Margins by Tlotlo TsamaaseMay 26, 2026https://amzn.to/4w7eWzE #booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    35 min

  4. May 5

    Popular Horror • Another Small Haul

    There are three books in here that you may have heard of! Also, one that may be new to you. Revisiting the backward bookshelf, I added one book to my reading list from there, and added another. In this episode, I get into some of the popular horror books I've picked up recently, as well as a more obscure title for fans of strange stories. I'll have a dedicated review video coming up, as well as the top books for next month. In the meantime I have gotten quite a bit of good reading done! Thank in part to good recommendations, so if there is something you think I ought to read let me know.Also - over at patreon, I expanded on my question about Jack in the Box and The Swords using your PDF version of Pray Lied Eve 2 [  / 156581106  ] so let me know what you think! ✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮Letters to the Purple Satin Killer by Joshua Chaplinsky https://amzn.to/4cS1oiFBetween Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman https://amzn.to/4tCxSVoBuffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones https://amzn.to/4sX4UyaCold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman https://amzn.to/4eb4JMcPsychosomatic Slaughterhouse by Alicia Durst https://amzn.to/42wiyNYBookworms horror zine https://www.bookwormshorror.com/Halt by Foetus https://www.foetus.org/content/discog...#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber Typical Books 388- Another Spring Haul✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    17 min

  5. Apr 20

    Sorrow's Leap • An Unexpectedly Modern Haunting

    Today I'd like to review a fun, if not light, horror by Chris Sorensen. The Haunting of Sorrow's Leap is the story of a very reluctant psychic with fading powers who is wrapped up in a sort of locked-room mystery. Similar to 13 Ghosts or Hill House, she is cloistered with other psychics for a chance at cashing out after staying a night in a haunted mansion. What this book is not, however, is a typical gothic horror story. I didn’t expect it to be a meta horror like Kill Creek, and was pleasantly surprised that it was. The cover drew me in entirely, and I had wanted to read more Sorensen after the Nightmare Room. It was a book about a voiceover actor and I really liked how the author wove his knowledge into the story. This is no exception. Light on scares and not gory at all, I hesitate to say this is cozy or a thriller; it is a tale of a haunted house, and haunted people with some very dynamic and well wrought characters. While I was drawn in by the illusion of Sorrow’s Leap as a cliffside gothic, I got so much more from this modern haunting and tale of hidden talents and strength in numbers. ✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮The Haunting of Sorrow's Leap by Chris Sorenesenhttps://amzn.to/41IhwhK#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    11 min

  6. Apr 1

    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!Often, there is a trend or style that is popular, and sometimes it is apparent. This month, there are so many varied covers that are so well done, we have a really good variety of design. And story! There are shorts, novels, gothic, folk and a little gore; all the good stuff. As mentioned, I reviewed Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward here:    • Nowhere Burning • A horror novel that read...  And the 2015 film Decay is amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_(...)✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮Monumental by Adam Nevillhttps://amzn.to/4sKW6vO Blood Trail by Matt Query and Harrison Queryhttps://amzn.to/4s5H1Vs Bodies of Work: A Novella by Clay McLeod Chapmanhttps://amzn.to/4uVQwsa Sarafina by Philip Fracassi, with an introduction by Nick Cutterhttps://amzn.to/414GdED The Boatman by Alex Grecianhttps://amzn.to/4bUqMno The Hive by Ronald Malfihttps://amzn.to/4seQZnS These Familiar Walls by C. J. Dotsonhttps://amzn.to/4m3GCku Wife Shaped Bodies: A Novel by Laura Cranehillhttps://amzn.to/4tkvRg6 Come Sing for the Harrowing by Dan Coxon, forward by Brian Evensonhttps://amzn.to/3PuX1Cj Odessa: A Novel by Gabrielle Sherhttps://amzn.to/4dKXE4A The Caretaker: A Novel by Marcus Kliewerhttps://amzn.to/4b6Odeb Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror by Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardonhttps://telos.co.uk/shop/film/natural... Molka by Monika Kim https://amzn.to/40ZVpmf #booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber Typical Books 385 - New Horror April 2026.mp4✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    35 min

  7. Mar 31

    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; stories you circle back to weekly in thought and conversation. They’re all vintage, all widely loved, and most of them have long since slipped into other forms and other mediums or inspired legions of writers to work these themes into their own work. What I think about is how startlingly modern they must have felt when they first appeared. These weren’t dusty relics when they were written like they are now! They were sharp, unsettling, and a little bit dangerous, and even now, they still have a way of lingering.We all strive to read books like this on the regular, don't we? This is what the goal of book hunting is. And then, some of of us wish we could write like this. These six books don't only thrill me as a reader, they are why I write... well, these and Stephen King books 🩶✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮Hell House by Richard MathesonThe Amityville Horror by Jay AnsonPsycho by Robert BlockRosemary's Baby by Ira LevinThe Stepford Wives by Ira LevinBlack Christmas by Thomas Altman#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber ✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    34 min

  8. Mar 24

    This Horror Feels Like a Memory • Nowhere Burning

    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...A good example of horror done well without explicit shock value; true terror and horror rooted in its core, channelled underground, and floating in the air.Catriona Ward is not only instant buy for me, but instant immersion. It helps that I love outdoors horror, and this takes place at an abandoned woodland sanctuary. Nowhere was a compound of sorts, where a very rich man did strange and dangerous things.This was another through-line for me; runaway kids. Specifically, kids running away to an abandoned place in the wilderness.Pick up a copy here: https://amzn.to/3PHdrHD✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber Typical Books 383 - Nowhere Burning✮✮✮✮✮✮ ▹ Books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com ▹ All socials ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever🩶As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.✮ Thank you! ✮

    11 min
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Hi! 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 weekly. I curate the HWA new releases page and scour book lists for the best horror coming out each month. ✮ Music by aenorex https://aenorex.bandcamp.com ✮ Find my own books and more at ▹ http://typicalbooks.com Patreon is Bookworm Central for sneak peeks ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks Socials and news ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever

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  • Creator
    Lydia Peever
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    65
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Lydia Peever
  • Show Website
    Lydia's Books of Terror