 Hello everybody, E here. E here. Welcome back to another book haul. I discontinued these a while back only because I wasn't buying anything new. I wasn't planning on buying anything new other than like Stephen King and authors that I stock. I guess it's the best way. Authors that I buy right out the gate as soon as they publish their books. But recently I wanted some retail therapy so I ordered a bunch of stuff from independent bookstores from Amazon. I don't know what all came from what because I just unboxed everything and made a stack. So we're going to go through it. Some of these, well I think two of these were gifts. Well one of them was a gift, one was an ARC. So we're going to get into those first. The first one, my buddy Darren who I am currently collaborating with on a book sent me Eternal Autumn which is his, I believe, his debut comic book. I have not read it yet but actually by the time this goes up I probably will have read it but I haven't even opened it yet other than to read the letter that he sent me in the back. But I will be getting to this one soon and as soon as I do I'll review it even though he said he was just sending it to me as a gift. Next up we have a book that was sent to me for review and it is Who's There by Dima Rio Dimas. I'm not sure, D-I-M-A-S-R-I-O Dimas Rio. I believe he's an Indonesian author. At least I believe it's a he. I'm pretty sure it's a he. Yeah, it's a he. He contacted me. I don't normally take review requests. I think I've only taken two. This one included over the past year. The other one was Michael Brett Collins and when I say review requests these are books that are sent to me not by authors I know. I get loads of stuff from authors I know but Dimas, I hope I'm saying your name right. I apologize if I'm not. Sent me this book for review but before he sent it to me he sent me a terrifically well done review request through my email. Now I don't want to say this and have a bunch of email requests but I just ignore. I don't even respond to 99% of them. This one caught my eye because I have not read an author from Indonesia and I wanted to check that box off of my around the world type of thing that I'm doing. It's not really a challenge. I'm just trying to branch out and learn other cultures by reading their fiction. So yeah, who's there? I'll leave a link to this down there in the doobly-doo if you want to check this out also. But yeah, so that's the ARC. That's the last of the books that I got for free. All the rest of these I bought from either independent bookstores book, not book, eight books. I almost said book depository. Eight books or Amazon. I don't shop too much on Amazon anymore but I did go ahead and grab The Unsuitable by Molly Polig, P-O-H-L-I-G. I hope I pronounced that right. Maybe it's Polig. I don't know. But this one everybody's been talking about this one. I haven't even read the synopsis but it's been getting good reviews from people I trust so I went ahead and picked this up new. See here, next one. This is one that I got from an independent bookstore. Can't remember the name of it. If I can find it again, I bought a lot of stuff from independent bookstores. If I can find which one this one came from, I'll post links down there in the doobly-doo. I know I got one of these from Buckets of Blood. They're on Twitter. They're a bookstore. Very cool name. I also got Who Goes There from them a while back. But yeah, this is the remaking from Clay in the Cloud Chapman. I've been hearing, again, I've been hearing good things about this one and I had a little extra money to spend so I went ahead and grabbed this one because I was going to do an independent bookstore anyways. And I love the cover. Next up is one. We found it, Books of Million. You will be able to tell down here from the discount one. I forgot, Maria Davana Hadley had other books other than The Mere Wife, which is one of my favorite books of all time. Maybe not in my top 20, but it's definitely up there. So I went ahead and got her, I believe it's her first book. It may not be Magonia. Magonia? I'm not sure. But the cover is absolutely gorgeous and I need to take these stickers off but I won't do it on camera. So I got this one from Bam. Next up is from Amazon. I got The Rue by Alan Baxter. There's a great funny story behind this one. Keelan Patrick Burke made the cover for it as a joke and then Alan Baxter said, hey, maybe I can do it. I believe it's after Alan shared a news article about a kangaroo that was harassing a small town or something like that. So Alan wrote it based on that article and Keelan's cover art, which is absolutely fantastic. If you can't see it well here, definitely go check it out on Amazon. I'm excited to get these. I think there's a whole series of them now where Keelan is doing the covers for charity and the proceeds for the books are going to charity. I think, I don't know, I'll check some more and if I can find out more information I'll leave it down there in the doobly-doo. But this is 122 pages, so yeah, it's definitely in novella. Alright, you're not going to stay up there, so we'll put you over there. Okay, next up is one that I had on audio book forever. I tried listening to it, couldn't get into it. I went and I looked inside. Sorry, it's hot that I'm touching my face so much. It's hot out here. And I keep the air conditioning off while I'm recording or else that hiss you here in the background, which I'm trying to work on, is ten times as loud. But I got The Fisherman by John Langen. Langen, I believe. Word Horde is a terrific publisher. I like them a lot. They always have very unique books and very unique covers, and I like this one a lot. But this one comes highly recommended in the horror community. The story behind this one was he tried to submit it to literary publishers. They said it was too genre. He tried to publish it with genre, and they said it was too literary. I've run into that problem myself publishing certain things, so it's a little bit of solidarity. But he finally got this published and I'm looking forward to it. So, so highly recommended in the horror community. Next up, we're going to go pretty quick two four book packs. I went ahead and finished my Keelan Patrick Burke collection with the novellas, Milestone, Currency of Souls, which is one of his best covers. I think this cover is just fantastic. And then Master of the Moors, which is another great cover of his. These are the last ones that I needed for my collection, so I can start going through his stuff in order of publication. There's a series out of it where I do one, you know, one a month or whatever. I don't know. You guys tell me what you'd like to see down there in the doobly-doo. But he's definitely the next author I want to go through, not really as a challenge, but just to look at all of their stuff and see how they've grown over their career. Next up is a pack of four books that I bought directly from the author, and that is Danger Slaters. This one is Puppet Skin. This one. I love the cover of this one. I can't remember what publishing company did covers like that, but he digs a hole. I believe these are all of Danger's works, I believe. Impossible, James. And then I will rot with you, which I am currently reading and loving. It is hilarious. I'm reading his stuff in order of publication also. But other than that, those are all the western, westernized books I bought. I don't know if the review of it will be up by the time this goes live or not. So I apologize if it's not already up, but I've already reviewed one of the books that I bought, and that was Uzumaki. It'll be either up before or after this one. I'll probably ask you guys which one you wanted. But I read Uzumaki. I loved it. Spoilers, I guess. I loved it, not spoilers for the book. I loved the book, and I went out and went kind of crazy. But before we talk about Junji Ito, I want to show this one, because all the rest of these books are Junji Ito. I got the very first, not episode, the very first in the series One Punch Man. I've heard good things about it. I know it's a TV, not TV show, an anime. But I went ahead and got the manga because I am now obsessed with manga as you were about to see. But One Punch Man sounded like a lot of fun and people recommended it, so I grabbed that one. I was also going to try Berserker. I think Berserk or Berserker. I also bought Scarlet, which I don't have, and I can't find. I hope I actually did buy it. But that's the story about sapphic vampires, which I'm all about. This one was the only one that I'd heard of, though I'd never heard of Scarlet and I'd never heard of Ito either before my buddy Gregor said, hey, check this guy out. But I'll talk about that more in the review. So, because I went nuts on the Ito stuff, the rest of this video is going to be Junji Ito. I got, I hate that this is, it's already got black smudges on it. I hate white covers for that reason. The same reason I hate white cars and white linen. No longer human. This one, I love the way these things are built. These, oh, I just popped open the, what was that, the light? Anyways, I love the way these things are built. The production quality is amazing and they have to be for what they charge. This one alone was $34.99. And I know graphic novels are expensive as it is, but that's one of the things that kept me away from reading manga almost exclusively was the cost of all this stuff. And I understand why it's expensive, but I just can't afford it. Next up, I got Shiver, which is a short story collection. And I got Smashed. So, I got Smashed. Anyways, I got Smashed and Shiver. These are both short story collections from what I understand. I could be wrong. I don't think I am though. Actually, I could probably just look right on here. Yeah, short stories and short stories. Yeah, they're all short stories. I love Junji Ito's art. Even if the stories are batshit crazy, even though that's a good thing in my book. But I love, I love his artwork. Next, I got Gio. Gio. Gio. I don't know. I'm sorry, I apologize, but I got Gio. At least I think that's what it's called. And I got Tomey. Tomey? Not sure. This one, is this one about vampires? I don't want too much, I don't want you to spoil anything for me. But I do want to know, am I about to jump into almost 800 pages of vampire fiction? If I am, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Because I'm not a huge fan of vampires, I do like visual art with vampires, like artwork, comics, and movies. I do like the occasional vampire movie. I'm a big fan of 30 Days and Night. And of course, finally, sorry, they're backward. Backward from our westernized text anyway. Uzumaki. Is that upside down? It is upside down. Uzumaki. Anyways, so I got six Junji Itos, one new manga, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Are any of these books on your radar, anything that you want to read, anything you're interested in? Have you read anything in this stack of books that I have shown you? If you like them, let me know why you like them. If you didn't like them, let me know why you didn't like them. But please, I haven't read any of these, other than Uzumaki. Please, no spoilers. No spoilers for Uzumaki either. Simply because I don't want people stumbling upon the comments. If you do have to post spoilers, please put spoiler alert, and then enter down, I think it's five lines, and then put your spoilers like that. I would appreciate it. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U, it has been hot as hell out here. I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye-bye!