 Hi there today on Typical Books it's a big hometown horror haul. I think this is like my third hometown horror haul and I do other hauls. I mean I get books from other places too and a lot of the times when I'm doing a catch-up I will talk about a book I just got or a TBR is kind of like a haul too so I don't typically do them. I seem to do holiday horror hauls, Halloween horror hauls and hometown horror hauls. Now the reason I do a hometown horror haul is because sure around here there's lots of used bookstores and me and my husband do check out used bookstores whenever we travel. I've always done that. I mean that's just being a thing. When I was a kid we took road trips specifically to buy cheese and books which sounds kind of weird unless you're from Northern Ontario and you understand that the highway bookshop was near-ish to Thornlow Cheese Factory so you could get cheese curds, some books, eat cheese curds, while you read the books whatever. Maybe it's a Northern Ontario thing. I used to go road tripping for books and I still kind of go road tripping for books but now I don't really travel a lot but I do travel home and home is where the Alice in the Bookman is. One of my favorite bookstores. Now here we do have a book bazaar. We do have black squirrel books which is fantastic. We have book market. We have a few other used bookstores I do like but there's nothing quite like the horror section at Alice's and I've shown it off before. So this particular bookstore I have never really asked this. I went in there last week and asked why there's so many horror novels? Why do you have such a dedicated horror section and they not only have a horror section with a placard horror hanging over it they have like a zombie preparedness warning sign and it's quite large. They have a few other horror things but it's always very very well stuck. Oh, overflowing with horror and a lot of new horror in their paperback trade and hardcover section too outside of the horror section which is paperbacks and it is a fantastic trove and it's always been that way. I've been going there since I was a baby and I said to her I've been coming here since I was a baby what's with all the horror? I've never asked. I'm a huge fan and she said not only are a lot of their Patrons huge horror fans it seems that North Bay where I'm from is a horror city and they get people that aren't even regulars bringing in a lot of horror and the owners are horror fans so that clenched it. I mean it's not just me it's not just a few people I know that frequent the store but it is the city and the owners so hey if you are in northern Ontario or if you end up here there definitely give Alison the Bookman a try. So we'll start with the thing that is the newest The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones. I'm late to the Stephen Graham Jones everyone's reading The Only Good Indians right now but The Last Final Girl I've never read so it was a real steal actually for a pretty much impeccable used copy so very nice very excited to get to this. Next we have Someone's Watching by Andrew Niederman this is a guy that wrote pen and a lot of oh I've moved them my V.C. Andrews novels yeah so Andrew Niederman and the author of Pin and Brain Child very interested to check this out. This hole's kind of big this might take a while. So The Brides of Lucifer by Miriam Lynch I think I've read this before. I went through a big phase of if it had satan on the cover and yellow on the spine it was guaranteed a really good time so I did pick up quite a few of these sorts of books. I think I've read this one but hey Thomas Altman Black Christmas this has been on a few other people's reading lists and a few other halls I've seen the last year. It's not related to the film apparently but there are some things sound similar to me and I have a sneaking suspicion that the film is based in a true crime story that happened in Montreal so I am very interested to read Christmas in Murdoch a time of cozy safety snowy sidewalks and caroling children but this holiday season someone is baiting Sheriff Dunn's more in a bizarre and deadly game someone is stalking the young women he knows and loves seducing them with icy steel leaving them for him to find far too late so yeah black Christmas stories of terror from the shadow land of interspace mind in chains edited by Dr Christopher Evans and I love this art what is going on here a mind in chains no doubt about it well yeah there are some interesting names here we've got Ambrose Bierce MR James Saki which I haven't read enough Saki when I was a kid I was transfixed with the stories of Saki and this may I should research I don't know much about Saki Gigi Ballard and a few other names I don't know so hey very interesting collection speaking of interesting I've never heard of this Tibbs house by Sam Hallroyd I am going into this absolutely blind it's a novella length short paperback from New English Library it is I believe 77 77 so I am very interested to get to this little tiny thing what mysterious phenomenon is it that it's such a closely guarded secret in the community what link is there between Gillian and Tibbs house Will Bainsbridge moves into Tibbs house an old country car that falls in love with Gillian Hart a young girl who lives nearby but strange incidents began to force them apart destroying their love so seems to be a little gothic a little neo gothic 13 tales of terror by 13 masters of horror when I saw this it jumped out at me like oh my gosh I think I've read this before and that would lead me to believe I have read Aralstein before Red Rain because that was the only Aralstein ever really read and I've never read any Christopher Pike that I thought so maybe I have seeing some of these other names I don't know any of these other names except the two that are obviously in larger print to go figure so interesting to get to some short stories I might get some videos going where I talk about short stories I might do some like really short Sunday reads perhaps because I do read short stories regularly at least one a week if not several in a week if I don't read one every day I was very interested in these short stories so I picked up a different collection dark voices for I'm just gonna leave this sticker on there because I'm afraid I'm gonna ruin it edited by David Sutton and Steven Jones Dark Voices for the pan book of horror and it's just the cover that totally got me so we've got some authors I'm not familiar with could be because they're British we've got Graham Masterton David show and our Lansdale among at least 13 others that I don't recognize passion pain hauntings nightmare sacrifice cycles love deaths dismemberment deviance in dark voices for the reign of terror continues I kind of wanted boys life we've got uh Robert McKinnon gone south this sounded interesting to me I liked the cover art it run me of something like a southern gothic so we'll find out flattered by memories poisoned by agent orange and desperate for work Dan Lambert kills a man in the moment of fear and fury and changes his life forever pursued by police and bounty hunters d dan fleas south toward the Louisiana bayous heading into the small blend he meets ardent holiday a young woman who bears vivid burdens of her own past and is searching for a legendary faith healer called the bright girl so it sounds like an interesting journey nevertheless something summary if I even get to it this summer I've been enjoying James Herbert and I kind of want everything in hardcover but I couldn't resist this with a lovely very plain cover James Herbert moon a number one bestseller no doubt he had fled from the terrors of his past finding refuge in the quietness of the island and for a time he lived in peace until the sightings began very interesting berry wood dolls eyes I've never read any berry wood and I keep wanting to read berry wood and I kept passing this particular book by it's been on those shelves for a while I finally just picked it up Eve Klein was born with a gift she doesn't want to drove her husband away and her mother to suicide it forces her to see things to know things in her mind she can see the pain the tear of the blood and the eyes cold and merciless alive yet dead destiny has brought her to a remote and mountainous place with no avenue of escape for the killer's glassy doll eyes are now focused solely on Eve Klein and he's coming for her now I don't think this is anything like the eyes of Laura Mars but I want it to be I bought this on the cover alone and judging from the price tags remnants other people have as well quick the quick by Lee Ellis in a quiet town a young bride is seduced by an ancient and consuming evil it may not have a yellow spine or satan on the cover but I think it will be a good time young newlyweds Jen and David meddling could see the great white house from their bedroom window they were fascinated by the local stories about the mansion and the aura of glamour surrounding the glittering talented people who gathered there but they were rumors of strange rituals in the deftly stillness of the night so it's like pre-how house how house maybe I just love the cover this is another one I'll I'll show a close up of because it is just such a lovely thing and I guess maybe I will use an oil trick to get these stickers off I don't know it's really I am scared to ruin these beautiful weird covers in the tradition of the exorcist succubus by Campo Verde a possession passion and forces from beyond is Thomas Benton's wife Rena and demon is she possessed by passionate or evil spirit or both we will find out in succubus yeah lovely stuff a dollar fifty when it originally came out this had come from the cash bay library it's stamped it doesn't have a proper copyright page well who knows I guess it's just an ageless book we'll never know how old it is manner books fiction weird and a reread for me beast house Richard layman one of my favorite Richard layman books out the lights is another favorite of mine and it's hard for me to judge I'd say this is one of his softer ones but I have a high tolerance when it comes to this sort of splattery gore and crazy balls out no filter bullcrap but then Richard layman seems to write I love his work though and I wish I had a copy of in layman's words the house known as beast house of the car museum on the most twisted and macabre kind it is a monument to its own infamous past on display inside our wax figures of its victims their bodies mangled and chewed mutilated beyond description the tourists who come to beast house can only wonder what sort of terrifying creature could be responsible for such atrocities surely nothing human the beast house this is a last from the hometown horror hall jack ketchum's red now um this particular book had been I brought it up in a previous episode and I went there looking specifically for jack ketchum and I did I was surprised to stumble upon this but I'd never heard of it before and it's weird when jack ketchum keeps surprising me with titles I never heard of uh it turns out that my husband had watched the film and not known it was a book and once I discovered the book of course I didn't know it was a film so I'm very interested to read it have Chris read it and then maybe we'll watch the movie that would be kind of a cool thing to do so apparently it is a very uh animal cruel treat centric book and it starts out with something like that one of the brams took a reward and author of the lost I really enjoyed the loss that was another one that was uh based on true crime and of this theory that almost all of jack ketchum's work is based on uh true crime so I'm interested to hear or know if this story is it all started with a simple act of brutality three boys shot and killed an old man's dog no reason just plain meanness but the dog who was the best thing in the old man's world and he wasn't about to let it pass he wanted justice and he'd make sure the kids paid for what they did even if it cost him his life they picked the wrong old man to mess with and as a fearing violence escalate they're about to learn that the hard way red and not part of the hometown horror hall but since oh march I had ordered this or may perhaps um secrets in the dark this is the second of the black winter series by Darcy Cotes you can't outrun the stillness winter born hall is not safe even as Claire and Doran scramble to secure the ancient building against the ravenous hollow ones they face something far worse Claire sister has made contact but she's trapped and her oxygen is running out and that is where the previous book left off so that is not spoiling a thing hundreds of miles separate Claire from baths the land between them is infested with monsters and the roads are a maze of dead ends which is mysterious because there seem to be one road in and out from winter born Claire has to choose between making a journey she knows she might not survive or staying safe in winter born and listening as her sister slowly suffocates terrifying and I'll bet that's the first chapter right so it's not spoiling anything I trust and I'm very interested to get to this I want to read it right away but I also want to wait until it's closer to the cold season here to read something that is steeped in snow so there you have it a giant haul of a whole bunch of horror novels from my hometown favorite bookstore hope you enjoyed this little look what I got session and thank you very much for checking it out if you've read any of these books let me know or let me know of course what you're reading right now I always want to know and be sure that you have an icky 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