 Hi there. Today on Typical Books I'm going to do part nine of my bookshelf tour. Part nine. I believe there will be a tenth part because in this you'll see that I go through some of the stacks rather quickly so there's anything you want me to back up and pull out and dissect a little further. There's only a few books that I really pull out and talk about at length because I sort of go through this large bookshelf quickly but there is a large stack of graphic novels that I just sort of gloss over so I'm going to come back and revisit those. I'm going to talk about my V.C. Andrews shelf and the and rice collection that you didn't get to see upstairs. So there will be one more final video that sort of just wraps up like these are the other random books in our house but yeah so part nine of bookshelf tour. But before I start there the reason I'm doing the bookshelf tour video today is not only just to get it done but because I don't really want to put anything in particular as far as new releases books in particular alongside political commentary of any sort. Not that it is 100% political when you're talking basic human rights. Black lives matter and Black voices matter and that's what matters right now. So a nice bookshelf tour kind of goes hand in hand with that. What also goes even more hand in hand with that. No pun intended is the mudrathon. Every day at noon your time people have been completing a mudra to hold your hand up right hand typically you can also do this with your left hand and do another sigil another mudra with your other hand more of a yogic interpretation depending on how you want to do this mudra has different interpretations and of course there's one that everybody knows. The mudrathon has been running for quite some time it's as simple as hoping for strength against fear and peace. So check out twitter, type in mudrathon hashtag mudrathon and check that out if you're interested for a more tangible and proactive thing to support. There is horror writers for black lives matter you can find that online as well put links below. I'll put a link to a twitter mudrathon hashtag as well. My personal favorite is the southern poverty law center you can always donate to them and that is a very fantastic group that tracks hate and does amazing statistical research that you can't find anywhere else. Now there are times that the southern poverty law center may not agree 100% with what you have to say but hey they're doing everything that is right in the world right now and paying close attention to the things that really matter and the things that are very dangerous as far as human rights and equality are concerned. So without further ado here is a small bookshelf tour. In fact this bookshelf tour takes place upstairs. Okay here we go this is going to be awkward because this is a billy bookshelf and it's the top shelf and I am very short so what you can't see above it is the Ryuk pop figure and if I can tilt this back a little bit. A master's of horror box set and a box set of Shiki and wedding portrait. So it's a mixed match here as well. We've got some mixed books William Burroughs' Junkie, Boyd Rice, Standing in Two Circles, Tony Burgess, People Live Still in Cash Town Corners and there's a second copy downstairs. We do share some of the same books to a certain extent. Still Dead by Hart D. Fisher, a Dear Hamiltonian book which I believe there's one downstairs, Steve Tacklett's book. Now this is a Guardian for the Dreamer and Other Tales. If you had listened to my husband's podcast by Torturecast, he was on older episodes. This is Voltaire's book, What is Goth? If you follow him on YouTube you may be into his Gothic Homemaking Channel. Encyclopedia of Hell by Martin Olsen. This is hilarious. I love this book. Vampire Nation. I had actually reviewed this book and talked about it when I talked about other vampire books. Vampire Encyclopedia. This is a very interesting book and it covers a lot of the fiction. These are two books that I picked up last time we were in Allentown by a local author, Larry Divert and Werewolves in the Christmas City and the Christmas City Vampire. I've yet to read those. They are definitely on my TBR but I might wait until it's Christmas to read them because they're based on Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dracula the Endad by Daker Stoker which goes along with this paperback copy of the exact same book. Go figure. And The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I really enjoyed that actually. This is Castle Italian Dictionary. Vampire Taxonomy which I really enjoy of all my vampire books. Manuela Don Massetti's Vampire and Skull's Vampire's Choral. And a family photo. That is my great-grandmother Annie Lorena Storm and George Storm. And here we are. Fourth floor women's fashion. Milk glass. Everyone has to have a little milk glass, don't they? Death Note. Wonderful stuff. Some little kinder egg toys. Kinder eggs as we know them here in Canada are banned in the U.S. So this was a fun thing for us to do one day to pick up some kinder toy. There we go. Fun stuff. So Goth by Suici which is a very favorite of mine. Dissolving Classroom, Junji Ito. I think that's one of the few Ito that I personally read. My husband is a big fan. I love Halloween. You'll remember that from previous video. Wonderful dark manga there. Death Note goes along this. Those were just picked up in the wild though on a whim. Corpse Party. A wonderful series. Beautiful series. My husband had lent those to me before he moved here. So it's nice to have everything reunited once more. My uncle bought me this little guy and this is from Moc Chunk, Pennsylvania or it's named after a sports guy. Jim Thorpe. I don't know how this is going to go because with my self in the way, some Nag Champa. No household is complete without it. This is a beautiful addition of the shining by Stephen King out of here that my husband had picked up for me. It is absolutely wonderful and I had laid it out on a round table one Christmas and read it over the winter. But this is just absolutely stunning. Signed by the artist. Just a wonderful, wonderful thing. Probably the nicest collector's edition of anything I've ever seen in my entire life. Hopefully this is from Subterranean. Signed by Stephen King and it is copied number 431 of 750. Signed by the artist Vincent Chong and just it's a lovely, lovely edition. Absolutely lovely. Okay, Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King. That is the old edition. I know it's been reissued. The Dark Tower by Stephen King. I picked this up for like a 50 cents or a dollar or something from a sharing book shelf at work. My husband has never read the series. One of my second cousins, my first cousin named his son. So my second cousin's name is named after Roland. Those are bad dreams. Still haven't read this yet. I haven't read Resival either but I really like the cover but I had understood like this might not be for me. I don't know. We'll see if someday I do read it. Stephen King The Mist. This is my husband's copy of the novella and it is lovely to have. This is the book that a lot of people didn't enjoy. It was a short story. I will pretty much read anything that's this short. So it was interesting. Nice to see him writing again. This is my other favorite box set. This is the Lovecraft box set and it does contain everything but his juvenileia. This is a very slim hard cover of the Inhuman Condition by Clyde Barker. This contains the Inhuman Condition, body politic, revelations, down Satan, and age of desire. This is a wonderful volumes one to three of Books of Blood. I was glad to have married a fellow Barker fan. The Hellbound Heart by Clyde Barker. This is the tool my husband's copy of the tool. A wonderful addition to the Scarlet Gospels and Hellraiser Hellbound Heart as a whole. You will recall this from Halloween up on Scarlet Gospels. Mr. Be Gone. This is one of my most favorite. I've also reviewed. This is one of my older reviews but I love this particular book and I had bought this on Guy Fawkes Day. Go figure. Just so weird that a book that begs you to burn it bought on Guy Fawkes Day. Luna Park brought Easton Ellis, Chuck Pollinock, fugitives and refugees. Got quite a bit of Chuck here of course. Two copies of Invisible Monsters. That's my fault entirely. I picked it up not knowing that we already had it. Diary which is one of my favorites and not a fan favorite of Pollinock. Damned which I enjoyed the first half of. Haunted by Pollinock. Let's see what Tiki Tag is in here. I like that. Spooky spooky. More Pollinock, Pollinock, Pollinock. Consider this which I still need to read. One thing I find creepy. It's Nightmare Fuel, the cover of this. What the hell? That's scary looking stuff but I'm very interested. I'd bought this for my husband but of course he said that I ought to read it. I thought it would be more for the fan than the writer but it is a lot for writers. Pure Hate by Roth James White. The Nick and Mama Toss. I have not read this yet at all and I really need to. Edward Lee and the big Edward Lee fan. Huge Edward Lee fan here. The Black Train, otherwise known as Gast in the UK. Fantastic. If you're new to Edward Lee and are turned off from the splatter punk angle of him, this is a little more of an approachable book. The Black Train by Edward Lee. I love that book and I own two copies of it by accident but hey I do plan to reread that. I love that book. Hunter of the Threshold by Edward Lee. This is his take of course on an Howard Phillips Lovecraft story and Lucifer's Lottery. This is another very approachable Edward Lee story that deals with HPL as well. Now I do like the Inferno series very very much from Edward Lee but of course if you're new to Edward Lee I would say maybe try Lucifer's Lottery and the Black Train first. If you're digging what's going on in Lucifer's Lottery then go go on to the City Inferno series but if that's too much for you then I don't know try and find some of his crime stories. Okay this is a girthy mix right here. I think it'll take us a bit to go through this so I'll move my camera out of the way. I will go through these another time. I was actually looking for these. I had mentioned them a while ago and I need to brush up on my fringe. So you'll see there's two copies here of Genital Grinder by Ryan Harding. Those were his and hers copies and I don't mind having two copies of that. Edward Lee's Carnal Surgery in Mangled Meat, Ralph James White's like porno for psychos and bullet through your face by Edward Lee. Wonderful stuff. This is Despumation, a collection of metal horror and it is lovely. One of my friends Sean has a story in here, Sean Warland, and it is based on the Canadian metal band Boy Vod. Wicked Library. I've mentioned that before. I have a story in here called Grey Marginalia alongside 12 other authors and the wonderful artist Jeanette Andromeda and edited by Scarlett algae and of course my favorite Nelson Piles and Dan Fortick from the Wicked Library in ninth story and the Lyft of course. Great Horror Stories, Battle Royale, Best New Horror, 24 by Stephen Jones, Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, that's a wonderful book actually, and an old Oscar Wilde. We've got some Alan Datlow's Horror of the Year here, Imaginarium 4, Beautiful Symmetries, this is another Alan Datlow book, Interpane Freak I had reviewed before, so you can look at my video on that. John Skip's Psychos, I should really review that sometime. That was a wonderful anthology about psychos, serial killers, their paved madmen, and the criminally insane Mad House. This is a beautiful book actually, it has beautiful illustrations and it is an anthology with many authors and it's all like a collective universe, so all the authors were asked to write about this one same mental asylum. Mad House is just a beautiful beautiful book. This came out around the same time as Gutted, and I found so much hype over Gutted, but not enough over Mad House. Favorite Racks from Hell, no stranger to that, huh? And Cemetery Dance and Joe Hill Special Issue, Let the Old Dreams Die, so we're into some Linguist here, and there is more Linguist probably downstairs. This is the Secret History of Twin Peaks, we're both big Twin Peaks fans in this house, and this I will be talking about Dreams from the Witch House shortly. I haven't had a chance to read it, I flipped through it a couple times just because it's so lovely, but I want to give it proper attention. So that's this shelf, so I'm just gonna quickly hand bomb the shelf because it is just too low to the ground. Nightmares in the Sky, Stephen King, I talked about that on the show before. We've got Hag Head, this is the Canadian poet Susan Musgrave, and Carol Evans does the illustrations. It is a Halloween-inspired tale. A children's book to a certain extent. This picture is framed in my kitchen. This is The Lady Paranama by Vincent Marcon, a huge dictionary. Everything you know about God is wrong underground in the Book of Lies, all from the Disinfo Corporation. Does anyone ever remember Disinfo? I still love Disinfo. Basic History of Art, Textbooks. We've got the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Art of War, Rise and Fall, the Third Right, Nazi War and Cancer, and Beyond the Dark Vale, which was picked up at the Mutur Museum. I absolutely love the Mutur Museum. There's a postcard in there from them, but this is All Memento Mori. This is the Tolkien Companion for those who need a Tolkien Companion and Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe. I've had this since I was a kid. This is a wonderful Edgar Allen Poe book. I don't have the dust jacket and haven't for a long time, but I absolutely love this book. I even wrote my name in it and stamped it with things when I was a kid. Go figure. Pride, Prejudice and Zombies. This is a wonderful edition of Edgar Allen Poe that I've shown on the show before. And Mysteries of Witchcraft and the Elcald. If you're into those time lifestyle books, like this one here on Ghosts, then you will probably be familiar with the Mysteries of Witchcraft and the Elcald. This is a Book Monsters from the Id. A Geiger Compendium. Lovely stuff. Mr. Sangatide, we've got some Geiger and Del Toro. This is probably my favorite book on the entire planet to flip through. It is a massive, massive tome. It doesn't fit anywhere else. It hardly fits here. This is True Norwegian Black Metal. It is a wonderful photo compendium. It is so big. I don't even know if I could properly show it off. Okay. So we are back and I hope you enjoyed that small bookshelf tour. Like I said, there's only one more video that's sort of a... I keep saying all my shelves are very miscellaneous and they are, but there'll be a few little bits that we still have to see in the final video. And that'll be a nice 10-part bookshelf tour done for now. And then I think I might color code these just for looks sake and for fun because I've never done it before. So I might have a little video of that. A little time lapse. I always like little time lapses. But until then, coming up next, we have my final ideas on House of Leaves because I am done reading that. So I'll save all that for that. I did take a few more videos of reading vlog. Thank you so much for enjoying the previous reading vlog which did... it was very, very fun. And once I had the footage, I couldn't do anything but assemble it in the way that you see it now. So thank you very much for checking that out and being interested. If you've read House of Leaves, you can comment there here on the next video which will be a more formal review with a little bit more reading vlog. So let me know what you thought of House of Leaves or if these videos have interested you enough to start reading it if you put it off like I had. I'm reading Horror in the Woods as a Nice Relax. I also have Seaman by Cece Adams coming up and Gutterbreed. So stay tuned for that. If there's anything that you think I should be reading, let me know in the comments. And also let me know what you're reading right now. It doesn't even have to be horror. If you've taken this time to do a little more research, if you've got a stack like this of University textbooks on race and race relations, then let me know in the comments too. I'm always interested in nonfiction. Keep that in mind for future reference and above all, make sure that you have a safe and ookey spooky day.