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Lydia Peever

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Short horror and fantastic stories have poured out of me for as long as I could write them down. I have been writing both fiction and non-fiction forever. My work has been published in the Ottawa Citizen, other smaller newspapers, and various places online.

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Top Horror Books for Fall • September 2026

September is spooky-season pre-game. So that means there are way too many books to choose from. I will say that many of the best writers have books coming this season, however, most of them are only here in spirit.

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	Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology by R. Saint Claire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E.D. Lewis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Marie McWilliams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For When the Veil Drops by Christian Larsen, Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), C. Bryan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightface 3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pray Lied Eve: Short Tales of the Untoward 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We're Not Home: A Horror Anthology by Cam Wolfe (Goodreads Author), Kate Cavanaugh (Goodreads Author), Dane Cobain (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memento Mori by Bruce Lockhart (Editor), Essel Pratt (Goodreads Author), Lydia Peever (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wicked Library Presents: 13 Wicked Tales by Stephanie M. Wytovich (Goodreads Author), C. Bryan Brown (Goodreads Author), Myk Pilgrim (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pray Lied Eve 2: Further Tales of the Untoward 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only So Far In The Woods 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pray Lied Eve 3: Tales of the macabre and untoward 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

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“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica

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