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Rumpfest Ends • Final Thoughts, Reading Stats, and What’s Next

The Richard Laymon readathon, #readingandrumps has come and gone. I had so much fun that I look forward to next year.

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Rumpfest Ends • Final Laymon Thoughts, Reading Stats, & What’s Next

The Richard Laymon readathon, #readingandrumps has come and gone. I had so much fun that I look forward to next year. It also inspired my next video where I decided to recount all of my extreme horror books. More next week. So far this year I have read 33 books; 9 in June alone. That is a lot for me!

I owe this to experimenting with audiobooks and also joining the readathon. Both lent to six of those nine books! While I am not going 'all in' on readathons, I will be reading along with RGsDevilship in All-In August and picking one author to read for the whole month. I say here I have two authors in mind, but there are actually three...

In July, I have a few books to read and two non-fiction books. One of which is from the library - The 90s Teen Horror Cycle by Alexandra West - and ties in with the recent Dead Air episodes on The Faculty and I Know What You Did Last Summer. That last one was based on a 1973 novel of the same name; and that was news to me!

✮ Mergers and Acquisitions ✮

Toadhead by Andrew Lyall
Tales Told Around A Strange Fire by Bud Templin
Necroscope IV and V by Brian Lumley
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley

#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber

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▹ A list of horror books out each month ▹ https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror
▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.

If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...

I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.

✮ Thank you! ✮

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Best new horror books • 19 reads for July 2025!

So many great horror books are coming this July. It was as if there was a dam that broke somewhere - and this is not even all of them! As you know, I love to bring us the books that speak to me as top horror of the month, with an eye for those with cool covers. Have you read any of these already? If you plan on picking up one or two as I do, let me know in the comments!

This month, there seems to be a trend for both silhouettes on covers, as well as dark academia - but for adults. Are you a fan of that sub-genre? I think I am... or am going to be!

Come Knocking: A Novel by Mike Bockoven
https://amzn.to/40w5BTG

Dark Canadiana: An Anthology of Canadian Horror
https://amzn.to/449Vqqh
https://ironfangpress.com/dark-canadiana

Little White Flowers by Amber Hathaway
https://www.amberhathaway.com/

My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie
https://amzn.to/4mwierh

How to Survive a Horror Story: A Novel by Mallory Arnold
https://amzn.to/44biHIv

Killer on the Road and The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones
https://amzn.to/4kITMRW

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
https://amzn.to/3SluVrk

One Yellow Eye: A Novel by Leigh Radford
https://amzn.to/4mwwG2y

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
https://amzn.to/4eEKYL1

Another by Paul Tremblay
https://amzn.to/3TfaoFg

DuMort by Michelle Tang
https://amzn.to/3I657gZ

Feeding The Wheel by Michael Boulerice
https://amzn.to/44xjqTn

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
https://amzn.to/3ZW0nka

Negative Images by Rebecca Schier-Akamelu
https://amzn.to/3G6XTIZ

Red Rabbit Ghost by Jen Julian
https://amzn.to/3SqyOeB

The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
https://amzn.to/4nrrPjx

Angel Down: A Novel by Daniel Kraus
https://amzn.to/44tfvqq

Asylum Hotel by Juliet Blackwell
https://amzn.to/44nXQQY

Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
https://amzn.to/4kbwqUd
See Deadly Prey Gallery for more on Ghanaian movie posters.
https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify...

#booktube #youtube #horrorbooks #horrortuber

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▹ Bookworm Central on Patreon ▹ https://www.patreon.com/typicalbooks
▹ Bookworm decor is here! ▹ https://shop.typicalbooks.com/
▹ All socials, the shop and news ▹ https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever
▹ Read books I wrote ▹ https://amzn.to/3k20OY6
▹ A list of horror books out each month ▹ https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror
▹ Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you use Amazon links here. While I accept very limited and specific books for review from publishers, my reviews are honest, and I only accept books I'd have bought with my own money.

If I've been recommended a book it might be on my Amazon Wishlist here : https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/...

I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.

✮ Thank you! ✮

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Endless Night by Richard Laymon: Simon says lets play cat and mouse

This was my second pick for this month’s Richard Laymon read-a-thon. As with many of his novels, I was not sure if I had read this before

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How The Book Gets Tubed • Behind the scenes Q&A

Have you ever wondered what goes in to making a Book tube video? I saw Syn at Syn's Book Nook do this tag and while it is time for the Mid-Year Freak out Tag I am never really freaking out

Reading Chills, Thrills, and Laymon Kills • Weekly Reads

This week in my horror reading I wrapped up reading Cold Chills by Robert Bloch and really recommend one short story above all. The Plays The Thing is just perfect to me.

From the Mill to Miami • Used Horror, Laymon & This Week’s Stats

This video has everything: Laymon, stats & a haunted mill? Yes. But we focus here on the bookstore beside the mill instead. And the third week of Reading and Rumps!

Among the Missing by Richard Laymon: Laymon light

For the first week of June, and a first week of the Richard Laymon read-a-thon I chose Among the Missing as I was sure I'd not read this one before; and I was right. A really great entry level Laymon I'd say

Best New Horror Books • What to read in June!

Only a small clutch of books caught my eye this month. There were not many to choose from in terms of plain horror.

Reading and Rumps • A Richard Laymon Read-a-thon!

You know I love me some Richard Laymon. He is one author I have read every summer for the past few years too. So, thank you, Regina for organizing this event!

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