 Hi there today on Typical Books we're going to be talking about some new releases for July and August probably and maybe not too far beyond there but first we just had Canada Day yesterday so happy Canada Day, a little belated to all my Canadian friends and a happy upcoming 4th of July. I believe that's Independence Day in the US and whatever other holidays you may have. We're kind of lucky having a sort of bilateral household here where we celebrate both Canadian and American holidays to the best of our ability although we do get the Canadian version of these holidays off first and foremost. We still kind of do what we can to stretch out the celebration for the American holidays like this particular one which is some sort of pride, national pride sort of day and Thanksgiving which happens on different days. Now you know Canadian Thanksgiving happens first and then American Thanksgiving later so I finally started reading haunted if you see my Instagram you notice that I posted some pictures I'm already impressed I was impressed before I even started reading words and I'm a three or four chapters in and I really enjoy that book so I'll be doing that next and at the end of this video talking about a few more the exciting things that are going on around here but for now without delay some new releases from horror writers association authors so we got quite a few I was feeling cute so I thought I'd check the bucket and oh my god it was overflowing so here we are with a few new releases really cool art again all around it's getting cooler every month it seems and these are not in particular order and not even ordered by date the database is just cool all the dead men this is an Alexander Smith book two by Eric Nenali and I really enjoyed the typography and the layout of this particular thing and maybe I'm just a coffin fan so Alexander must confront the church of our Lady perpetual death and deal with the unexpected threat of Anna's grand sire an old and powerful vampire who has consumed his own soul the monster wants nothing more than possess the only love Alexander has left in the world do love me some vampire fiction black stars above by Lonnie Nadler it's 1887 a young fur trapper flees for overbearing family only to get lost in a dream like winter wilderness that harbors a cosmic threat a chance at freedom comes in the form of a parcel that needs a delivering to a nameless town north of the wilderness I like that already I hope that it happens in the winter grotesque monster stories by Lee Murray this comes from things in the well Australia and I'm just gonna backtrack here the previous one was from vault comics black stars above and all the dead men came from twisted publishing a Haverhill house in the print grotesque monster stories debut short story collection from three-time Bram Stoker award nominee Lee Murray featuring 11 uncanny tales of a tomaton zombies golem's dragons and it doesn't say if it's illustrated but hey that's cool grotesque monster stories Jennifer Strange this is book one of a series by Cat Scully this comes from a Haverhill house as well and it's yap books is the imprint there Savannah Georgia is one of the most haunted places in the United States I would vote that Pennsylvania by and large the whole state is haunted but hey in fact Jennifer Strange has become all too aware of its haunting since moving here to live with her sister after their father's disappearance ghosts love her they haunt her and everyone around her now they seem to want her to do something for them just what she's not sure but she better figure it out before they force her to join them okay and from severed press we have on a quiet earth by Chris Kelly caught unaware by the risen dead laurel chambers discovers a shocking capacity for violence unsettled by the brutality of his instincts his psyche peels apart as he contends for survival in a savage new world adrift in a backwards world seeking reconciliation with the remains of his family chambers must come to terms with the violence in his heart before his mental state completely dissolves into the simmering rage that lay hidden in his previous life I'm not really sure what that's about but it sounds like it would be exciting ride this comes up from dark ink books shadowy natures stories of psychological horror I'm already sold on just the title very plain title but haha I like psychological horror this is edited by Rebecca Rowland now it comes out with 21 stories of serial killers and sociopaths and shadowy natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treasurer's roads featuring never before released fiction from various authors this next one comes out from vault comics it's called the plot written by moico marisi and tim daniel with art by joshua hixon colors jordan void letters jim cambell editor adrian wassel or best sell i'm not sure how to pronounce that so yeah this is the first four issues of this comic the plot and it's collected into one graphic novel and the cover is just fantastic looking in order to receive you first must give when chase blanes a strange brother and sister-in-law are murdered he becomes guardian to mckenzie and zak the niece and nephew he hardly knows chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in cape augusta which overlooks a deep black bogland teeming with family secrets yeah i'm already enjoying that the cover of this made me look twice this is out by black bedsheet or diverse media books it's from rachel dillon who interviewed me at one point interestingly enough and it's called the stain i thought the the cover of this looks fun i mean it looks it makes me want to read it an ancient stain saturating a plot of western pennsylvania land wraps its evil shadowy clause into a new family in the dark and unfamiliar depths of the basement that lurks it desires to manipulate a family into destructive chaos as it has countless times passed and is far back as there were settlers in this plot of land i told you pennsylvania's haunted by the stain yeah okay i'm excited for the stain rana morgan's new book unboxed greg zipper is a successful paranormal vlogger who plans to hit one million subscribers by filming a dark web mystery box unboxing he gets much more than he bargained for and learns the value of his loved ones in the real world rather than basing his self-esteem on his so called fans i like the dark web unboxing idea we've seen that played out in short form and video if you click on that sort of stuff um but to see it in a book form that's kind of interesting lisa morton and leslie clinger have put out weird women classic supernatural fiction by groundbreaking female writers this comes from pegasus books and this is dated from 1852 to 1923 so if you're looking for real classics weird fiction by female writers this is your number one addition to your bookshelf some of the finest tales of terror by authors as legendaries louisa may all caught francis hotchin burnett and charlotte gillman perkins alongside works of writers who are the best sellers of critical favorites of their time marie karelli elin glasco charlotte riddle and lesser known authors who are deserving of contemporary recognition i really i'm looking forward to this and i do like the female take on the weird pre-industrialization it's a whole different world of women that i deeply appreciate that i love seeing in fiction and another addition to the weird weird war three edited by shon parkett haslett and a host of authors now tales of the war that might have been what of the united states had gone to war with the soviet union what of the soviets and americans had struggled for dominion across parallel dimensions or the surface of the moon i incidentally did indeed have a great grandmother that did not believe that the moon landing had happened and it was a hoax come closer and peer through a glass darkly and discover the horrifying alternative versions of world war three from some of today's greatest minds in science fiction fantasy and horror so if you're into alternative history and sf f h then yeah that sounds like super fun and kind of timely in a way i mean if we don't have enough um bad news bears and destructive tendencies right now then might as well add to it in a fictional realm and maybe not horror one more no release just us cops is a comic put out by thomas nichols you can find him at tian comedy he is an american comedian and he was a fan of our show or is a fan of our show uh that air with me and west edner night and i'm in turn a fan of his podcast dude how did you not see this which both horror movie podcasts right so we have that common bond and he has put out this comic that i've followed since the beginning of it and there was a little bit of touch and go there with issue four coming out or not you know question mark but issue three was super fun and i think he slips horror in there like he is a horror fan he's also a hot sauce fan and a fun gummy candy fan but slipping a little bit of horror into something as comical as a buddy cop comedy surrealist fiction tale yeah so if you're interested in that sort of thing pick up just us cops volume three is out now and he's been doing some specials and chit chats online about that so hop on that for sure check out tiancomedy.net for that and as far as some of the other fun stuff happening around here i'm sort of wearing my wicked library shirt for a reason it's uh coming up so tune in to some of the last stuff there was a serrat antler story that was very very well done this whole season has just been unbelievable especially because they're operating on sort of a titan crew right now thanks to the way the world has been this year so this season has just been hitting it out of the park i think that it owes a lot to the years of quality and preparation and experience that the librarian and everyone involved has bringing to the show so when they're working you know with high tension and local operation perhaps they are really pulling together an amazing fiction podcast an award-winning fiction podcast the only two podcast shirts i own the wicked library and this is horror wicked library one of this is horror award go figure but yeah so this is a teaser for some upcoming wicked library goodness that you could perhaps see for me we'll see that's the one thing i do like working with the wicked library and i do have quite a few other stories that you can find that i've done for the wicked library and aside from just submitting a story and seeing it come to fruition it's really a collaborative effort and i'd love collaborating with people i do it so rarely i mean i create these videos very alone and i had a chance this weekend to create a little video with my husband he has a third ep coming out under his musical project named anorex and that was super fun so that'll be coming up i'm only teasing it a little bit here in that a he does the music for my show i use his uh movie soundtrack ingredients for this show but we created a teaser for his upcoming ep and it was super fun to do and it was so much fun and so easy and quick to like work with somebody to do something oh my gosh so i'm going to be working with somebody again if you hadn't tuned in before to mine and Amy Jane Vosper's or the glamour ghoul as she is known we had a very long conversation about horror and you can find it here on my channel but hey we're doing another one so if you have any input or questions for me and Amy in the meantime before we sit down to record we're going to sit down in about five minutes and chit chat about what we're going to do and just visit hang out like we normally do but yeah so i get to look forward to that sort of collaborative effect and another somewhat collaboration that i've got to be part of and another really awesome woman out there in horror is mrs from harpies and the trees she created the most adorable photo edit of mine i've ever seen oh my she's been doing these amazing art photos up on her instagram so definitely check that out go on over to harpies and the trees check out her booktube videos first and foremost because she's a hero of mine and has a fantastic taste in horror and is extremely skilled in photo editing and video production definitely check out some of the horror fiction if you're a fan of the wicked library and things like that then you might like mrs channel because she does some readings from time to time so coming up will be a review of james harbert's haunted which i'm enjoying very much and a belated haul video of some sort for sure until then if there's anything on this list that really piques your interest let me know in the comments or if there's something you're reading that you think i ought to pick up definitely let me know in the comments below thank you very much and have an oaky spooky day