 Could somebody said maybe if you pulled that damn cap up your ass wouldn't be so dark. So here Here's some faux head. Hello everybody. He here. Welcome back to another book tag today First and foremost, I need to cross my peas and dot my cues There's a Alex of Hey Little Thrifter created this one since I got the last The last tag creator wrong Alex of Hey Little Thrifter created this one She has a fantastic video up. I I will link down there in the doobly-doo. I suggest you go check it out But Stephanie of that's what she read She tagged me this time. Thank you so much Stephanie today. We are doing the horror Book tube tag so I'm going to get into this I'm not exactly sure who all has been tagged so far So and two of the people that I want to tag one of them is Todd librarian And he's not around right now due to some family issues And then you can watch his latest video in the I need to explain I think there's a title of it and also JB so I'm gonna go ahead and write off the bat just tag these people Sorry, I'm still getting used to it Ryan's a beautiful world. I think it is I'm tagging Ryan. I'm tagging. Let's hear can he's already been tagged. I don't know who I'll tag So if you want to do this tag, just go ahead and jump into it and just do it yourself I don't know who else to tag. I'm coming up blank right now So maybe I'll put some people down there in the doobly-doo once I'm editing and I can look through the people who haven't done it yet Also, I will tag people on Twitter whether or not Chad Chad Let's see if you if you're watching this and you want to do it man I'd love to hear these answers from you. Okay, so number one how and when did you get into horror? I think just about everybody Mention this most people said goosebumps, but I was the scary stories to tell in the dark Crew when the I guess it's galactic book fair came around every year That's those those are the books that I would get I didn't eventually get into goosebumps But I always thought they were a little too safe for my liking even as a little kid I like store. I like stories in which people died and nobody ever died in in the goosebumps books So I went and got Wait when they became available to my age group. I was a fear street kid I was never really a goosebumps kid. So it was scary stories to tell in the dark, but even before that Way back when I was in you know, kindergarten and first grade I used to write or tell people my own horror stories one of the ones that I remember the most that my mom still tells To this day is she was walking me to my first day of kindergarten And we were walking by there's this huge field on Lime Street, which is the street that connected straight to my My school it wasn't that far away from my house, but we're walking there's a huge open field There were two big piles of Dirt one well actually one huge pile of dirt and one smaller pile of dirt now looked at I pointed to the dirt piles I said mom, you know, it's in there. She said no what I said That's where they bury all the bodies and she goes really what's in the smaller one? I said that's where dad bear so I was I was telling horror stories before I even read horror So that's that's my that's my experience with my first Take on horror number two. What was the first horror book that you read? Like that scary stories to tell in the dark that was the first one if we're talking about adult horror And I don't know it has some horror elements, but Dolores Claiborne I don't kind of cemented my love for the genre But you also I can't remember when I started reading Richard layman and Dean Coons and all that I can't remember that came before or after I read Dolores Claiborne I think up until Dolores Claiborne I only read fear Street books because mom wouldn't let me into her the great book closet is what I call it That's where she kept all the no-no books all of her Dean Coons John Saul Stephen King James Herbert if I already said him Let's see here. I'm trying to think there was loads and loads of books in there that I came across and most of them had amazing covers She's never into like the 80s paperbacks. She only collected the hardcovers So I didn't really get into the 80s 80s and 90s the paperback stuff until like leisure books And then when I finally got into that my when I finally got my leisure books Subscription that's when I started going back and hunting like the zebra Publications and I don't know if it was it Kensington back then or was it just zebra? I'm not sure But I went back. I'm one of those retro guys after I found, you know, the newer stuff I went back to look for the older stuff number three what horror related goodness. Can we expect from your channel? I'm not sure you're gonna see a whole lot of horror themed stuff on my channel unless it's like Halloween or something like that and specifically You know, I read a horror novel That's that's probably all you're gonna get from me really other than maybe if you even want to consider him a horror author nowadays Clive Barker, I guess he still is I mean the scarlet Gospels is still technically horror But he's more but I've always considered him more of a dark fantasy author I've never really considered him a horror author Let me fight that fight down there in the doobly-doo is Clive Barker a horror author or is he a dark fantasy author? Because some of my favorite stories are dark fantasy like the in the hills the cities something like that Fantastic work of fiction, but I still consider it dark fantasy And then you but then you still have the one with Marilyn Monroe and all that I can never son of celluloid. I think it's called Fantastic stories like that that are definitely a hundred percent horror Do you have any Favorite themes or sub sub-genres within horror? Yes my favorite theme in horror or sub-genre Whatever you want to call it is cold. I will read any horror novel novel Any horror novel ever written as if it's if it's in a cold environment. I am there Dan Simmons to terror Ronald Malfi's bone white Some Stevens Some Stephen King stuff has been set in very cold the shining of course. I almost forgot that one There's just really really terrific fiction and for some odd reason cold I feel cold and not odd reason a lot of people feel this way or else there wouldn't be a sub-genre With cold temperature horror fiction But it there's something that lends itself I guess it's the the survival aspect of a cold temperature, but on exact The exact opposite end of the spectrum. I also like Super-hot climates. So if you have like some that's kind of sub-tropical thing So super-hot climates because it was it Sun blind by Michael McBride is a fantastic book If you guys haven't read it, you need to so I guess anything with extreme weather. I'm there for Next up name an underrated horror novel or author Chad Lutzky, I mean everybody in this community that that Everybody that watches the show has heard me talk about Chad Lutzky But that I still and everybody gives him just about everybody gives him five stars But I still don't think that the dude has a wide enough reach I don't think he'll ever had have a wide enough reach and but if we're talking Straight horror because I've said this before I don't consider Chad Lutzky a horror author But if we're going straight horror I'm trying to think with someone that doesn't get enough credit and I'm coming up short The only one maybe I think Hunter Shay I think I've talked to several people and Hunter Shay tends to get written off as just a cheesy horror author But some of his stories have a much deeper deeper aspect to them like I'm looking over here at Creature So maybe Hunter Shay though those kinds of people Tim Meyer is great Gregor Zane he's not really horror. He's a bizarro with horror aspects. Some of his stuff has no horror whatsoever I don't think taboo guys. I'm really had any horror to it is more like a sci-fi speculative fiction of bizarro type thing But yeah, those are my choices those are the hardest ones because I don't know what what people consider underrated I watched Alex's video and Alex mentioned Bernard Taylor, but you see Bernard Taylor everywhere So I'm not sure what constitutes underrated Especially sweetheart sweetheart. I've seen several lifts with sweetheart sweetheart on it That was like the top ten horror novels of all time. So I'm not sure what constitutes Underrated now number six is easy for me name an overrated horror novel or author which Stephanie I'm sorry that the person who tagged me. This was one of her favorites Paul Tremblay I don't understand the draw. I've said this multiple times I don't really want to harp on it, but I had full of ghosts was just a reboot of the exorcist like note for note for note I don't even think that he did anything new other than the ending where he just leaves it open And that's kind of his shtick, you know, he leaves his his endings open But I tried to read a disappearance at Devil's Rock and the dialogue was atrocious So I don't understand what what people get out of Paul Tremblay. If you love him, that's fine I just I just don't see and Let's see. It's funny because Alex mentioned my number two novel of all to know my number three I'm three. I can't remember novel of all time as one of her most overrated pigs. So her she picked nose for ought to So it's funny how how much we differ in this community and that's one of the reasons why I love this community number Seven recommended three of your favorite horror novels This one, okay the girl next door by Jack Ketchum Stephen King's it and I want to say kin I think those three kind of kind of cement my love for the genre you have Kin is the aftermath of a slasher This is slasher novel slasher movie. It's the aftermath of that which I adored I think it is a modern classic it of course. I mean, it's my favorite book of all time And but then we come to Jack Ketchum's the girl next door, which pretty much made me the author that I am today To to well, I know I've been writing cosmic horror for the past seven years I understand that but I start my roots are in Can happen horror fiction like the girl next door or Stephen King's, you know the body that or voice in the night Traveling vampire show isn't can happen fiction, but it's close there until the end If I don't think I suppose that but anyways So that I'm gonna go with those three. I'm sure there's tons more that I'm forgetting I'm sure there's tons more that I'm forgetting But those are the three that come to my mind right now and when people ask me about my favorite horror novels I seem to stick with those with those three with those three books Recommend a book for someone who is new to the horror genre. I think any of King's first first three Is what I go to carry Salem's lot in the shining Maybe even maybe even pet cemetery I kind of tossed that one out there because I nobody knows how long pet cemetery was sitting in a drawer before he actually Published it. I think he said six years, but I who knows if if we're going something that's just Strictly, you know strictly horror. I would say anything almost anything by Bentley little Because he has themes along with the horror the writing is very accessible I would say Richard layman, but but I kind of feel like Richard layman feels felt sorry He passed away in 2001 on Valentine's Day in the last How he felt about his fiction. He wrote crime fiction. He didn't really write horror fiction. So I Guess I'd pick probably pet cemetery for a literary horror Thing and then I would go with probably Bentley little maybe Let's see or what's a really really good bit like like the store or the house or Any really any bent you little I would throw out there right nine Are there any book to film adaptations that you particularly loved or hated? Loved would be it And yeah, this is turning into like a Stephen King themed up not episode but book tag But it the the I guess reboot the reimagining of it the 2017 version I love that one and I absolutely hate Kubrick's the shining I don't think they've done the shining right yet But Kubrick's version especially annoys me to death the the music he uses It's supposed to be discordant. It's supposed to be upsetting, but it upsets me in a bad way It gets it makes me feel like I'm chewing on tin foil. The film is beautifully shot I will give you that much. The acting is over the top. The soundtrack is utterly horrible for me I just can't stand it. I don't know what it is about my ears I can't stand that that type of music and most movies with that type of music in it I either have to mute which kind of defeats the purpose of some of these movies I either have to mute or I have to turn off Argento I think is bad about that Dario Argento. I think he's bad about that too Let's see here 10 how do you discover new or new to you horror books booktube and Books to gram or Instagram for the book the book community It's the same app that I had one person has a where do I find the books to gram app? It's just book lovers on Instagram. Just search the tag hashtag books to gram and you know in place Replace well you you could figure out Treat me like you're stupid and you're not stupid But books to get hashtag books to gram on on Instagram also put hashtag horror there And you should be able to find tons of stuff also Twitter if you know the right people to follow I suggest Sadie mother horror. I know her as Sadie She goes by mother horror on Twitter Michael Patrick Hicks is another high fever books is another one to follow book happy on Instagram especially even though she does on Twitter also book dot happy her name's Emily So many more hey little thrifter The two the two people who tagged me Stephanie if that's what she read. That's what she read I said it right and then Alex of hey little thrifter camis corner. There's so many great youtubers books to grammars all that stuff that you can follow That's where I find all of my stuff. I don't hang out on Goodreads anymore I I go over there and I check my messages and add books and delete books and do reviews and stuff like that But I don't hang out there like I used to man. I used to live on Goodreads way back in the day You'd see 12 to you know Easily see it doesn't post for me over there now you might see one Unless I'm reading something really bad and I want to share the experience with everyone and like the recent Dean Coons book Alright, what was the last horror book that you bought? I actually took it in because I'm gonna read it But the luminous ones is that the name of it? It by Caitlyn Starling. I can't remember the title now. Is it the luminous ones? Anyways, it was in the book haul That's the most recent one that I bought and once again I got it off Twitter and it was showing up on books to gram also. So that's where I find my new stuff I saw that cover fell in love ran over to Amazon actually I read Tracy Reed's is another great account to follow because she's the one whose review I read that made that really clinched seal the deal made me run over to Amazon and buy it and it was on sale for like 7 or 8 bucks for You know a full-length hardcover. That was really cool Let's see here, but Tracy reads. I think it's Tracy underscore reads 7 9. I want to say I hope that's correct I'm sure you can find her she hangs out with the people that I talk. She's also ladies of horror fiction She's part of that amazing crew That's another thing that you can follow ladies of horror fiction. They they're doing great work in the in the genre and in the community So that's someone else. I think it's at L.O. L.O.H.F. ladies of four Yeah, L.O. at L.O.H.F. on Twitter, and I believe it's the same thing on book on Instagram Next up on number 12. What horror book is at the top of your wish list? It's a I'm not sure if it's horror or not But I think it is ITZA Tracy reads once again That's where I get a ton of my book reviews because we have the same likes and dislikes We tried reading Watership Down and basically both of us wanted to quit around the same time So I feel like she she vibes with me on that kind of thing So that's another one that she has talked about that is in my Amazon cart And I'll probably be end up getting I have a book budget every month So that's why I normally go to like libraries so I can stretch that book budget as far as possible and then So I have to wait for my rollover, which just happened and I'm looking to get it So and I think that's the only one I have some westerns on my list or some Hicklet fiction also on my my Amazon Shopping cart in my shopping cart right now. So in number 13 I kind of did is number one, which is tags and people I wanted to say JB and I wanted to say Todd Ryan, of course you do it too, please If you if you have the time I'm trying to think of other people I will tag more people down there in the doobly-doo and I will also try to tag more people over on On Twitter Chad Lusky. I'd love to hear you talk about this one This is one of my favorite tags of all time. So I hope I did a good job Let me know what you think down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time I have any you've been you There's been in the book tag video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye