I am a horror movie/book lover and there's one I read when I was around 18 (many moons ago) and I've tried to do a google search but can't find it. I feel like I remember it being called The Nursery but not 100% on that. I would call it a horror/thriller. It's about a young couple who decide to run away together and on their journey they come across a house where they are invited to stay by the couple living there but the couple turn out to be crazy and kill the boyfriend in a pretty horrible way and then lock the girl up in an attic room with a bunch of other girls who have been captured and they dress up and treat them all like little girls. Really creepy and know it's a long shot but have you maybe heard of it? Was probably written in the 70's or 80's. I'd like to read it again :)

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

That does sound SUPER creepy! It doesn’t ring any bells with me I’m afraid but I’d love to read it

@slayIem

Жыл бұрын

you might want to try asking the r/tipofmytongue subreddit, it's a board dedicated to solving this sort of thing. of course any book-related or horror fiction focused community might also be able to assist. hope you find it!

@PhiloCoaxed

Жыл бұрын

I have never read it, but I do believe it is ‘The Nursery’ by David Lippincott

I am impressed. Usually, when someone compiles an internet list of stuff “you never heard of”, it’s completely full of stuff you have heard of. But not this time. I don’t know of any of these but I will be checking out as many of them as I can.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Glad the list was useful (and new to you!)

@shan4680

Жыл бұрын

I've heard of Stephen Laws and Tanith Lee but that's it on this list. As in, I've just heard of those two authors but not the books by their names. Absolutely nothing else on this list at all.

@cobbler88

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Those rank right up there with "you never knew" vids. You can tell they're put together by millennials and younger, since everyone who lived during the period they're talking about knows these things.

0:53 Disturb Not the Dream, Paula Trachtman 1:28 The Ancient, Muriel Grey 2:08 Throat Sprockets 2:49 Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home, Jason Arnopp 3:59 Chasm, Stephen Laws 4:32 Finite, Kit Power 5:21 Dearest, Peter Loughran 6:13 Vivia, Tanith Lee 6:51 Tokyo Zodiac Murders, Soji Shimada 7:40 Stiff Lips, Anne Billson

@ruthfoley2580

Жыл бұрын

I've read Vivia. It's strange but wonderful.

@jennymacallan9071

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the list!

@andrewrodgers2180

Жыл бұрын

thank you Karen, I am so glad you put up the list. Sometimes I get mesmerized by Ollie and i forget to take notes. Cheers

@williamerickson520

Жыл бұрын

You forgot to list the author of Throat Sprockets: Tim Lucas. 🙃🙂

@DocBree13

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Absolute honour to make this list, Olly - thanks so much! :)

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Loved The Finite.

@psykobilly8430

Жыл бұрын

Kit Power, just finished The Finite. One of the best things I’ve read this year and I read a ton. Frightening and deeply moving. I’m a fan x

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@KitPowerwriter

Жыл бұрын

@@psykobilly8430 Thank you so, so much, I'm really glad it worked for you :)

@psykobilly8430

Жыл бұрын

@@KitPowerwriter yes very much so. I’m now reading God Bomb! and love it x

Pumpkin spice is just a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and sometimes allspice. With some tweaking it just tastes of Christmas.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Aha! I can kind of guess how that might be nice

Good list. I'd actually heard of three of them (Disturb Not the Dream, Dearest, Throat Sprockets), and know the authors on several of the others. A few I know of that might be considered a bit obscure: Night Film by Marisha Pessl, The Search For Joseph Tully by William H. Hallihan, anything by Adam Nevill, Maynard's House by Herman Raucher, Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, The Hippy Cult Murders by Ray Stanley (good luck finding this one, it's nearly impossible nowdays), Grimhaven by Charles Willeford (search around for files -- it's a long story but it's also tough to find, but worth it) , Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs, The Necrophiles by David Gurney. Childmare by A. G. Scott. Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace (again, good luck finding this one... it's actually pretty bad and stupid, but it's notoriously gory so that makes people seek it out). An Odour of Decay by Martin Jenson. Afraid by Jack Kilborn. Exorcism of Angela Gray by Norman Thaddeus Vane (not great, but entertaining pulp). To Walk The Night by William Sloane. The Landlady by Constance Rauch. Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli. Not all great, but several are, and they're all worth a read.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Nice list! Of those I think I've only read Night Film!

@Mahoney1

Жыл бұрын

Night Film is one of the best horror novels I have ever read! I loved it and recommend it often!

"The Ancient" was basically Preston/Child's The Relic" on a boat…

Hadn’t heard of ANY of these and just added them to my list!! Thanks for the recs, I’m super excited.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Hope you enjoy them

Congratulations on making a KZread video that actually lives up to the promise of the title! Subscribed.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

@gweaver2090

Жыл бұрын

Really enjoying catching up on your videos now I've discovered your channel. Very good stuff. Love to hear about any folk horror recommendations you might have, I'm looking for any gems in that genre I might have missed.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@gweaver2090 Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying it! Folk horror is probably the sub genre that I know least about I'm afraid

Mission accomplished: I didn't know any of those books yet. Another one I feel istn't much talked about is The Fisherman by John Langan. It loved it, it was a book that did not remind me of anything I've read before. It's very atmospheric and dark and has a few scenes in it that chilled me to the bone. If you haven't read it yet, I think you might enjoy it. :) Thanks for the recommendations! Cheers

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I have indeed read The Fisherman and really liked it (in fact there is a review on the channel somewhere). Thanks for watching! Glad you found the video useful

@TheHammy1987

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog OOOh, sorry, haven't had a chance to watch all your videos yet. I'll go and look for that review now :D

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHammy1987 no worries! Hope you enjoy it 😊

@Lo-Kag

Жыл бұрын

It's a shame to hear how many enjoyed it while I found it average at best. The concept was great but it really fell apart for me

I've only heard of Tokyo Zodiac Murders and Vivia. I'll add a few to these: • The Bog - Delicate Dependency- Night Things, all by Michael Talbot. • Thor by Wayne Smith. • The Golden by Lucius Shepard. • Unto Leviathon (aka Ship of Fools) by Richard Paul Russo. I never hear anyone talk about these great books.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I read Thor recently and really loved it (in fact I reviewed it here). I thin I read The Golden years ago, I definitely had a copy of it. The Bog is one Ive heard great things about. Thanks for watching!

@pateris

9 ай бұрын

I agree with "The bog" (not exactly a good title for a Brit audience, aye ?), it was definitely a good read !

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons is phenomenal. Long but worth it. It’s the book that got me reading again after a long hiatus. Love much of his work, but Carrion Comfort is my fave. Love your videos!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jerry! So glad you’re enjoying the channel. I read Carrion Comfort years ago. Definitely due a reread!

I just found your channel a few weeks ago and while watching this one I almost fell out of my chair. I was a collector of horror paperbacks in the 70s and 80s and sadly got rid of most of them a few years ago. There was one that I wished I kept. I remember some of the plot and a little bit of the ending but couldn't remember the name. I tried Googling every phrase but no luck. Then today I watched this video and the couldn't believe the very first book you reviewed is the book!!! I am reading it again now and about half way done. Disturb Not the Dream! THANKS!

I read Disturb Not The Dream over the weekend. And wow that book made me feel all the emotions. Mostly anger lol

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

It's quite a rollercoaster isn't it

A sincere warning sounds very interesting! And the fact that you can personalize it just makes it even better!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a neat idea

@PsilocybinCocktail

Жыл бұрын

My daughter is buying a house soon. Hmmmmmmm

My favourite book for Halloween is All Hallows Eve by Charles Williams. War in heaven is great too. And the rest Charles Williams wrote too...

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I haven't read any Charles Williams - I'll have to check him out! Thanks for watching

Among the forgotten gems are John Pritchard's trilogy beginning with "night sisters", then "Angels of mourning" , can't find the third. A mix of urban fantasy (before the tag existed) and visceral horror with a gothic (as in gothic rock) vibe. A nurse from a big London hospital gets mixed with Clinicians, dark ages doctors who managed to cross the ages, and a young witch. I know them well, I translated those mothers !

I am so glad I have stumbled upon your channel, there is something about you that is absolutely mesmerizing. Keep up the great job! Love to hear your reviews! I now have a new to-read list for Halloween! 🥰

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Maia, so glad you're enjoying it

Thanks for the recommendations! The Cipher by Kath Kaja is another fantastically weird one. It's grimy and disgusting with a blend of Lovecraft and body horror. I think it's out of print, but digital copies are still available. I'd say House of Leaves, too, but that's probably the most obvious one.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Love both those books! In fact I did a video on House of Leaves a while ago and I think The Cipher ended up in another if my top 10 videos. Funhole! (Also, love the Matt Berry avatar!)

‘Chasm’ is great and Laws is under appreciated and largely unknown nowadays. There is a really nice, new-ish, hardcover edition of ‘Chasm’ from PS, but the original paperback cover is just lovely!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and sounds like the PS edition is a revised version that includes material cut from the original. I think I need to pick up a copy!

Nice list…if your looking for a few other great reads - Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman - Followers the night and the life of Vampire New York City, a mystery begins to within occur within the the Vampire population. Nightwise & The Night Dahlia by R.S. Belcher. His second series ties into the same occult/supernatural world it’s call Brotherhood of the Wheel. The Joe Pitt Series by Charlie Huston. Older but very similar to Lesser dead but a series Noir’ish detective like/ vampire/supernatural

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Not read any of those! Will check some out. Thanks for watching!

"Out" by Natsuo Kirino (1997) is an absolute banger of a thriller with horrific overtones.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Agreed - I liked Out a lot!

@tonyetenario8706

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I'm always trying to make people read that book.

@terrythompson6386

Жыл бұрын

Dude yes i just made a comment about out. It is screwed up. Yeah your right

What a great video to stumble on. Looking forward to checking out your channel. Succinct descriptions, lots of recommendations, and not just the same old ones that always get talked about. If these are half as good as you make them sound, I'll be picking up a few of them and definitely having a spooky anonymous letter sent to a friend who recently bought a house.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom! Really glad you liked the video

The closest I've come to reading any of those would be the comic story that was -- oh, holy smokes, I'm going to have to go to the shelf and look it up. Give me a moment... Okay. There was a Throat Sprockets comic by Tim Lucas and Mike Hoffman in Taboo #1 from 1988 and a follow-up, Transylvania mon Amour, in Taboo #3, 1989. I really wonder what this concept would be like if played out at novel length. (Taboo was an anthology of horror comics that would probably be right up your alley. It's where Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell first saw print.)

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yep, that’s where I first encountered it too. I still have those issues up in the attic somewhere

A rare video with your library in focus. You should do a video with a trip through the titles?

@CriminOllyBlog

3 ай бұрын

I did do a library tour series early on in the life of the channel but definitely worth a refresh. I keep meaning to do it, but it’s a big undertaking!

I am so pleased to have found this channel. I thought I'd read every book there was, but I hadn't even heard of any of those! Such great recommendations. Thank you so much.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

That's fantastic! Really glad you found the channel

Thank You for sharing these. Now I have a good amount of new adventures to undertake. Your really quite good at these reviews and are very personable. Thank You again for taking the time to organize, and convey your thoughts with us all. You do make a difference and we do appreciate it.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael, that’s really kind of you to say.

Wow I’m so glad to see Disturb Not the Dream here. I read this book about 22 years back and I remember scaring myself terribly on the bus home one day from work. Same bus, same route everyday but I was so engrossed in the book that I forgot about the hill with the steep decline that I almost fell of the seat. I lost my original copy and always looked for another but it was out of print. It finally found it’s way to kindle a few years back so I got to read it again around 2017 for the first time since that day one the bus.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful, love this story! There is something amazing about a book that can transport you that much.

Thanks for this resource. The old classic "Ghost Stories of an Antiquity" by M.R. James frightened the hell out of me.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to check that out!

Fantastic list, quite a few that I've never read, much less never heard of. I love that I stumbled upon your channel!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nathan, really glad you enjoyed it!

I’ve only heard and read one of the ten, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The Tanith Lee one particularly stands out, I’ll have to track it down and give it a read. Thanks

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Leon. Glad you found it interesting

Fantastic list. Thanks for doing this. Been a fan of Stephen Laws since “The Crawl”. I’ve had Midnight on the To Read Pile forever. Bumping it up.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant - thanks for watching!

Phantoms by Dean Koontz was a favourite of mine, fantastic build, spoiled a bit by the ending.

@joanthompson5606

Жыл бұрын

Try "the Taking" by Koontz

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Koontz can be fun

@joanthompson5606

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Oops, another blooper: it's the "Taking" by Koontz, not Takers.... so embarrassing 😳

@pateris

9 ай бұрын

It also took about 300 pages before things finally happened…

Thanks for the list, I have heard of 4 of them (Chasm, Ancient, Sincere Warning & Stiff Lips) and read 2 (Sincere Warning & Stiff Lips - easily one of my faves, have re-read it twice and you've just reminded me to do it again). Muriel Gray's other books are also great, I have read Furnace and The Trickster. I can recommend Christopher Ransom and I've a few by John Farris who was (is?) quite prolific and very good fun indeed. I am definitely going to try the Tokyo Zodiac Murders.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Glad too enjoyed the list! I read a few John Farris books years ago and remember liking them. I need to check out Gray’s other books. I have The Trickster somewhere.

Chasm, I loved this book. Also read somewhere south of midnight. Love it as both North East

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Laws is great!

I have to commit to one day a week, at least one day, ditching my device and sitting down with a good old-fashioned paperback. I absolutely loved reading when I was younger, and I miss it terribly.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

That's definitely a good way to do it! Phones and tablets are so distracting!

The only one of these I know is Chasm. I have several books by Stephen Laws, including Chasm -- but I haven't actually read it. Must try to get around to it sometime ... but these days I either listen to audiobooks, or read ebooks. (The lighting in this apartment isn't conducive to reading paper... 🙂) While watching this video I bought two or three others from the list: Vivia, The Finite, and The Ancient. (I've also read The Trickster by Muriel Grey; it was great, if memory serves!)

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Hope you enjoy those books, Peter, and thanks for watching!

Picked up Disturb not the dream based off of one of your older videos, but will now be picking up a few more. Thanks Olly!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

No worries, cheers Matt!

If I may add two recommendations: The Things by Peter Watts. It takes place in the movie The Thing but from the perspective of the Thing. It’s a fascinating play on the rapist coloniser /invader trope which made my skin crawl. A Colder War by Charles Strauss. Written from the perspective of a CIA analyst, it’s a Cthulhu Mythos short story set in 80’s Cold War. The Soviets are invading Afghanistan using Eldritch abominations they barely understand or can control. What’s worse is they have access to a portal which, if opened, could spell doom for every soul on Earth. This story gives you no direct descriptions of the monsters in their dead slumber nor the realms beyond the portals, everything is titillatingly suggested in the most horrific way. The ending is bleak with a twist that suggests a fate worse then death.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Those both sound fantastic! Will check them out. Thank you!

As a horror novel junkie, this list was just what the doctor ordered. I'm sure many of us have trawled the net, praying for a fresh fix only to wind up getting dealt the same chronically deficient "Top 10" tripe over and over again. Chasm, Dearest and Tokyo Zodiac all sound like my cup of tea. As for recommendations, I'll give a few favorites. (no order or rank, just popping into my head) Adam Nevill - Last Days Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix Wrath James White - The Resurrectionist. Gemma Amor - Dear Laura Bernard Taylor - Sweetheart, Sweetheart Brian Evenson - Last Days (another one) Richard Laymon - Night in the Lonesome October Scott Smith - The Ruins S. Craig Zahler - Wraiths of a Broken Land Graham Masterton - Mirror John Shirley - Wetbones

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the list. I’ve read Dear Laura and The Ruins from yours and loved both of them. I’ve also read The Resurrectionist which was…interesting 😂 Reading Wetbones next month 😁

@andrewrobertson3894

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Yeah. The Resurrectionist ... Quite repulsive and nasty. I usually avoid that sort of stuff (Ed Lee and co.) but something about it, the premise maybe ...anyway, enough about that 😅 All I'll say is that after Wetbones, nothing else I've read from Shirley has even come close. Also, just to give it a bit of a plug, Wraith's of a Broken Land is written by the dude who wrote and directed the film Bone Tomahawk.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewrobertson3894 yeah the premise was really great, and some of the gore was effective, but just felt really uneven overall. Ah someone else recommended the Bone Tomahaw guy to me, need to check him out

I think I have my eye on one or two now…thanks book buddy! I can always count on you for a unique selection. 👏🏻👏🏻

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching, MJ!

Jason Arnopp is really underrated, I absolutely loved his novel 'Ghoster'. This is a great list, and I'll be sure to check out some of these books. Have you heard of 'In the Miso soup' by Ryu Murakami? It's excellent and is about a Japanese student who makes money on the side by taking sex tourists around seedy clubs in Japan and in the novel he meets a guy called Frank from America who isn't what he seems (I don't want to say too much more) Also 'All my colours' by David Quantick which is about a crappy, asshole writer from the 70's who happens upon an excellent book that nobody seems to have heard of so then decides to just pass it off as his own work with disastrous results. This one is flawed but pretty enjoyable. Last one is 'The Pilo family circus' by Will Elliott about a guy who is forced to join a nightmarish circus set in an alternate dimension after being stalked by 3 creepy clowns after he nearly hits one with his car. It's been over 10 years since I read this one but I remember it being absolutely fantastic and one I finished in a single sitting! There's plenty of other examples, but I don't want to bombard you with them just now lol

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Liam. I've read All My Colours and really liked it. Have heard of In the Miso Soup but not read it yet - it's on my list to get to one day. The Pilo Family Circus is new to me, sounds great though. Thanks for watching!

I’m happy I found your channel! Your descriptions are very helpful & I’m looking for a couple of these for spirit of the season! Any favorite sources where to order the hard to find titles? (Just not amazon)

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Cathy! Glad you're enjoying the channel. Best bets are eBay (saved searches are really helpful for finding hard to find books) or Abebooks.

Great list, I added most of them to my TBR! One kind of lesser known 90s j-horror that was disturbing and stuck with me is Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I’ve not heard of that one. Thanks for the recommendation!

@ronvlaarsvar6867

Жыл бұрын

Would like to read more J-Horror. Recently just read Strangers by Taichi Yamada, was very gone.

@jamiea4791

Жыл бұрын

@@ronvlaarsvar6867 I'll add it to my list! Japanese lit definitely hits different and horror especially.

Thank you for all the new recommendations! Haven´t heard of any of these books but i am interested in reading them. I didn´t know that the show "the sinner" was based on a book. Though i have heard the serie should be good

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching and sorry it has taken me a while to reply!

The only one I was failiar with was Throat Sprockets. I think Jonathan Carroll gets recognition as a literary writer, but his stuff is incredibly creepy and atmospheric (as well as having well=developed characters). My personal favorites are: The Voice of Our Shadow, The Land of Laughs, The Bones of the Moon. He's one of those writers who whenever I bring him up in a horror group, someone else nods knowingly "Oh yeah! What's he written lately?"

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I haven't read any Carroll - I'll check him out. Thanks for the recommedation!

@timcoombs2780

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Carroll is quite brilliant. I like to think he's the writer Neil Gaiman wants to be when he grows up. 'Sleeping in Flame' and 'Outside the Dog Museum' are quite haunting.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@timcoombs2780 I love that description!

@J.S.3259

Жыл бұрын

Carroll is definitely a slipstream author who is favoured by literary critics. He’s a smarter Neil Gaiman

@J.S.3259

Жыл бұрын

or maybe a fraternal twin of Steve Erickson

Wonderful! Unsurprisingly, I haven't heard of any of these (even the ones you've mentioned on the channel - You post every day!! Who can keep up?? I love it though, don't stop!). I've added quite a few to my want to read list!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ana, glad you found it useful and sorry it has taken me so long to reply!

Great collection of books in that list, and you were right, I've not heard about any of them until now. I'm a big Stephen King fan, so as you can imagine I've pretty much all his books. But I do like other horror writers (Dean Koontz in particular). I will certainly look for the books you mentioned. They do sound very interesting. Thank you.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video

Great list! I definitely have to look up Dearest. I just got A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home. Thanks for the awesome recommendations!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

No worries! Hope you enjoy them!

Gray's The Ancient sounds so fun! I have heard of a few of these, but I read horror a LOT, so that's to be expected.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I would have been doing well to get many past you!

Fun vlog. Well, I guess I’ll start digging around for a couple of them. I have so many books to dig into and read!! Haha isn’t it great?

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

It's a wonderful problem to have!

Man, I really need to up my horror game. I do really enjoy it when I read it, but it definitely isn’t my primary genre. I’ll have to check out several of these suggestions. Lovely video as always.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hope you enjoy any that you read!

This is a GREAT idea for a video, Olly! I actually own Dearest and now I want to read it very badly! Also, I had no idea The Sinner was based on a book. I enjoyed the show (especially the first two seasons). I want to check that out now! If I could read more quickly, I'd love to do a vlog reading all these on your list! Alas, I'm a slower reader, so I will have to pick one or two at a time here and there! Can't wait to check all of these out at some point. Awesome video! Your channel and videos are blowing up. It is well deserved 😊

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Kelsi! Hope you enjoy the ones you read. And yes I’ve had a lucky couple of weeks with the algorithm!

@danielsweet858

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kelsi! Golly, you pop up EVERYWHERE... Happy Halloween! 🙂🎃

@kathylovesmk

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know Sinner was a book either and I really like the shows!!

I've read The Ancient. Also try Muriel Gray's Trickster, and Furnace

Thank you! I can't find any of them in my local library but a couple are either free on Kindle Unlimited (Vivia and Disturb not the Dream) or cheap (A Sincere Warning about..., stoff Lips and The Ancient).

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy them!

I read Anne Billson's 'Suckers' earlier this year and enjoyed it. I'll have to take 'Stiff Lips' for a spin sometime. Jonathan Ayclffe (aka Daniel Easterman when he's writing thrillers) writes good atmospheric horror. Victor Gischler's "Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse", and Alan Kinross' "Longinus the Vampire" series were also fun reads.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea Aycliffe and Easterman were the same person! Although thinking about it I haven't read either of them. I'll check out those recommendations!

@ruthfoley2580

Жыл бұрын

Suckers is a great book. Got it about 25 years or so ago. It's an odd one as none of the main characters have any redeeming features.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@ruthfoley2580 well it is about yuppies…

@ruthfoley2580

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog True. I preferred the main vampire. At least she was honest & had a personality.

Thank you, as always. Smiles and serenity.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rosanna!

Yes!! I love videos like this! I've added three of these ones to my TBR list already. 💪❤❤

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

Where on earth do you find these? I have been reading horror since I was 9 years old. I'm 56 now and have never heard of any of the titles discussed. 🎃👻

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

LOL - I achieved my goal then!

@lesliepowell-mccarty7067

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog 😂

@thesecondson30

Жыл бұрын

Lets here Leslies top ten as well!!

@lesliepowell-mccarty7067

Жыл бұрын

@@thesecondson30 I have some in my TBR that I picked out based on the covers. I'll have to let you know if they are any good once I have finished them. I have never heard of them before but Olly is making me branch out. 😎✌️👻🖤

Wow thank you! Going to look for a few of these.

-Cats Eye by William W Johnstone is one of my fav books ever and it seems to just be completely unheard of. -The Predators by Mark Washburn.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I'm reading a Johnstone book at the moment by a weird coincidence!

@mikeholmanlovesyou

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog which one? is it one of the Devils series?

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeholmanlovesyou No, it's The Bats

@mikeholmanlovesyou

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Oh cheers! Gonna add that to my library now! IF you like it. Check out Cats Eye.

fantastic video and great recommendations. Thanks for posting this.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Jack - glad you found it useful

Good list, not only because I have not heard of them, but a nice mix of different types of horrors. I Might try to find chasm

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found it useful. Since I filmed it I discovered that there’s a new revised edition of Chasm which is Laws’ preferred version.

Great list! I’ve heard of only a couple of these. Chasm sounds very appealing!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

It's great - and I've since learned there's a revised edition which is supposed to be even better

I've been looking for a good list of horror! Thank you so much for this!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful!

Your descriptions are great!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Pat!

Really enjoying your videos and got some great suggestions from this one, thanks!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ben. Really glad you're enjoying the channel

Thanks for your site. Ordered one book out of this video. Love your presentation. Ever read an old ghost/horror called The Toll House (l think) by WW Jacobs? Frightened the pants off me, back in the fifties when I was wee!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it. No I've never read that one! I might have to check it out. Thanks for watching and sorry it has taken me so long to reply!

@massonman9099

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog it was published I'm a collection of his humorous stories called Sailors' Knots. I found it in my brother's books when I was alone in bed. I was about eight and he had been called up. I read all the funny ones, then hit that! 😂

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@massonman9099 ha! that's brilliant

I have not read Disturb Not the Dream yet, but it is high on my list to read. Thanks for all the recommendations that get less attention.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

It's really messed up but a lot of fun! Hope you enjoy it

Great list. Thank you!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks for the list! I’d love to read these but can’t get hold of most of them even online. All the second hand copies get hoovered up by wholesalers for expensive online resale. I had this trying to find a copy of ‘the song of kali’ by Dan Simmons. (A great book in itself but better known probably!) I’ll keep trying though!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Most of them are available on Kindle if you're happy to go that route!

@georgeparkes3863

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog two purchased already 😆

You had me at "Tanith Lee". 💖😁

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I definitely need to read more by here

Great list! I added them all to my TBR. I would recommend Confetti Man by Bonnie Jones

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I have indeed not head of that!

I'd heard of the Tim Lucas book, and several of the authors such as Laws and Gray. The Arnopp book sounds disturbingly like a true story I recently heard of where new owners of a house got a series of letters from someone claiming his family had been watchers of the house through generations and that they should beware of something in the walls there. Nothing was found but eventually they sold the house at a loss. I think there's a series about to appear about it.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Oh that is a very creepy story!

I've long wondered if THROAT SPROCKETS will be adapted for the screen by DAVID CRONENBERG...seems very much in his praxis. May I recommend one I feel is unduly sidestepped? A SCENT OF NEW MOWN HAY is a JOHN BLACKBURN novel of the late 50s...a genre mashup, comparable to little else, which demands higher regard.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Cronenberg would be a great choice to direct it. In case you're not aware, Tim Lucas did make a trailer for a proposed movie adaptation videowatchdogblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/admit-one-throat-sprockets.html I hadn't heard of A Scent of New Mown Hay but it sounds great!

I am really excited to check some of these out! Your synopsis of "Chasm" is giving me serious "The Great and Secret Show" (Clive Barker) vibes. Since that's one of my favorite books, I'm going to have to read Chasm. One book I never see on this type of list is "The Mortuary Arts" by John Gregory Hancock- it's about a young woman who finds herself with no resources or job prospects, so, out of desperation, she takes a job at a mortuary. She eventually becomes entangled with the two unmarried brothers who run the place. To say more would be to spoil it! It's a fairly quick read, but it took me a while to finish it. It gave me such a serious case of the creeps that I had to keep putting it down and then coming back to it. It has beautiful illustrations by the author that are done in that jittery "Scary Stories" style, and they add to the overall sense of dread that slowly builds throughout the book. I'm trying to get everyone I know to read it because I want to talk about it so badly!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jessica! Going to look that book up now, it sounds great

@ScientificallyStupid

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog I hope you enjoy it!

That tokyo book reminds me of a Japanese crime novel called "Out"

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

TBH it’s not that similar. It’s kind of like Sherlock Holmes in some ways. But with very graphic violence

Awesome, always love good horror recommendations!!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Megan - glad you liked them!

I have not heard of any of these! Here is my winter reading list. Nothing like snow, a fire, a good cup of tea and a great spooky book. Thanks!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy them!

You got me I haven't read any of those books but thanks for pointing them in my direction. Here are Six recommendations for you, Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, City Whitelight by John McKenzie, Beware! by Richard Laymon, Squirm by Richard Curtis, Jennifer Goverment by Max Barry and Consider her ways and others by John Wyndham. Sorry if you have already covered any of these but I have just joined your channel.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Nice list! I’ve have Six Four and Beware! But haven’t read them yet. Read Squirm in the summer and liked it a lot. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@SuperTbriggs

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Thank you. I have suggestions for future reads and will continue to watch your show for books I haven't read. I grew up in the 80s going to village libraries, a mobile library and a city library that was twenty minutes on the train and a one mile walk away. I cut my teeth on a lot of fantasy, horror and sci fi pulp novels and I still love them today so thats why I enjoy your show. My first ever horror read was Carrie and I still remember the front cover being a young scary girls face covered with riverlets of blood lit with silver lightning. What was your first horror read?

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperTbriggs Mine was an HP Lovecraft collection. Christine by King followed not long after

Appreciate your inclusion of foreign writers. Japanese have a different slant on ghosts, Korean is generally too gory (for me). Authors in Scandinavian countries seem to have a spareness of style I really love but it’s been hard for me to find horror by them.

Adding several to my list. Thanks!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy them!

Have you ever read any Aaron Dries? I read his book "House of Sighs" several years ago and loved it. This year I read "A Place for Sinners" and enjoyed it as well.

I love "Throat Sprockets"!

Hey Olly , Great channel! Any faves in the Cosmic Horror Genre? Big fan of Laird Barron in that department - please check out his short stories if you're not familiar.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hi Maurice, thank you so much! Cosmic horror isn’t something I’ve read that much of tbh (and have never read Barron so will check him out). I do enjoy Lovecraft though and also liked the modern retakes on HPL that Tor put out a while ago by Victor LaValle and Kij Johnson

I love your KZread channel and although I’ve been reading horror books for over 47 years you’ve introduced me to some new gems. Thank you. I do however have a question. I read a book about an “idiot savant”!who made machines that killed people, I seem to remember a girl was involved as a carer or friend. I wondered if anyone had a clue as to the title.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying the channel! That one doesn't ring any bells I'm afraid...

@pateris

9 ай бұрын

I remember it, it's by Bentley Little, but I can't be arsed to remember the exact title. Little is at his best when he goes for surreal stuff… ("The Forgotten" is brilliant this way.)

I really want to read the Soji Shimada book. I've read another book by him. Also really want to read The Sinner.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely worth reading!

I recently read “When Darkness Loves Us” (1985) and was blown away by it.

@CriminOllyBlog

8 ай бұрын

I've been meaning to pick that one up!

Indeed, the only ones of these I'd heard of before were the ones you'd talked about previously. 😛But I've added Chasm, Dearest, and Tokyo Zodiac Murders to my list!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! They’re definitely different from all the Star Trek you’ve been reading lately 😂

Man I love how almost all of these sound. The problem is I’m so freakin impatient that I suck at reading longer chapter books. I’m better at reading short stories. Do you have some advice for people like me that really want to read longer chapter books but find it hard to get started and keep reading until the end? I love this kind of stuff and feel like I’m doing myself a disservice by not reading them.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hey man, thanks for watching! As has been said on Twitter, I think building up from short stories to novellas to short novels is the way to go. I did a video a while ago on shorter horror novels that might be useful!

@phillymopwater

Жыл бұрын

practice makes perfect. Reading is a skill like learning a language or an instrument or drawing or anything else. Keep finding things you like to read and keep reading.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Excellent advice. As an aside, I saw Tutu speak years ago and it really was inspiring. Amazing man.

@deano2160

Жыл бұрын

Here is one for you. Not mine but i liked it. Super short horror story. Dad hears a cry from his sons room and goes in to check. Asks his son if hes ok as he looks scared with the bedsheets pulled up about him. "Daddy, theres a monster under my bed" "theres no such thing as monsters, but I'll check if you like" Looks under his bed and sees his son whimpering "daddy, theres a monster in my bed".

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@deano2160 Very good!

Throat Sprockets caught my attention but it seems impossible to get. Perhaps I'll look more closely at one or two of the others.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's out of print I believe. I find a saved search on Ebay and a bit of patience usually pays off

Of these, I've only read "A Sincere Warning about the Entity in Your Home." I haven't heard of the others. My recommendation for an underappreciated horror novel is The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Not heard of that one, I'll check it out - thanks Adrienne!

I think Garry D Kilworths' Angel could very well be a contender. More along the lines of horror fantasy though..

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I’ve not heard of that. Will have to check it out

I have no idea how well- or little-known Bentley Little is. I only know that once I start one of his novels, I'm turning pages constantly until I'm done. And then I have to take a long shower to wash away the shame.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Ha! You should never feel shame for enjoying a book! I’m familiar with Little but have never actually read him. I need to remedy that!

I absolutely love Tanith Lee. Vivia has been on my TBR for ages.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

I need to read more by her

@arlem525

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog I highly recommend her Tales of the Flat Earth series on Audible. The narrator is magnificent. I have been a fan sine her short story Huzdra appeared in the DAW Year's Best Horror Stories #5. Oh and Dark Dance, the first book in her Blood Opera Sequence. I have been collecting her most of my life. Not everything lands for me though, I have to admit.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@arlem525 Thank you!

Have you read Tana French or Joe R Lansdale? I'd really be interested to know what you think of them. French is actually Irish, I believe, and wrote a series about detectives there, which is fairly bleak but pretty engrossing. Lansdale is out of South Texas and writes with considerable regional flair. He has a series of detective-y novels about an odd couple of friends called Hap and Leonard. But he's also written a ton of short stories, some of which are well into horror's depths, plus a variety of just generally weird shit. Probably his best known title was made into a film - it's called Bubba Ho-tep, and it falls into that comic horror genre. There tends to be a very strong comic element in most of his stuff. I would really be interested in your thoughts on him.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Hey Heidi! Thanks for watching and commenting ☺️ I tried a Tana French book a while ago (The Wych Elm) but didn’t get on with it. Someone else has recommended their books recently though and I’ve got the first of the Dublin ones on my Kindle to read soon. As for Lansdale, I’ve read The Drive In books (in fact there’s a review of the first one on the channel) and the first Hap and Leonard. Love the Bubba Ho Tep movie too!

@heidifogelberg3544

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Clearly I need to watch more of your older stuff. Just found your channel recently, so I will delve a bit. Lovely to hear back from you, and I look forward to more of your content!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@heidifogelberg3544 I try to reply to every comment - the conversations are why I make videos!

Was the series called Sinner too? One that I really liked but it just disappeared was Outcast, did you see that? Oh and you got me with this list, not one book and that's depressing for me! Lol!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was - had Bill Pullman in it. I didn't see Outcast I'm afraid. Please to have got you with the list!

I have not read or heard of any of the books you’ve mentioned, but then I don’t read a lot of horror…. I’ve started reading more horror novels in recent years usually around Halloween.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

That's a great time of year to try it out! Thanks for watching and commenting :)

@lisavitale8410

Жыл бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog I listened to the unabridged audio version of Shadow on the Sun by Richard Matheson last October and LOVED it!! Richard Matheson is well known, but Shadow on the Sun seems to be one of his lesser known works. It's a horror/western mash-up, which I thought was a unique combination. I loved how Richard Matheson builds tension and suspense throughout this novel. It is a short read, but filled with great writing and storytelling. Have you read it?

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@lisavitale8410 No, I haven't read that one. It sounds great though. I do have a couple of his other more traditional westerns to read soon

For Canadian thanksgiving we have pumpkin spice pie. Except we use carrots instead of pumpkin.

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

That sounds... odd. I can't really imagine it!

That letter sounds awesome lol! I might order that for someone someday lol. And I also love monsters in enclosed spaces stories! Alien is awesome. Lots of interesting books here! Gonna check them out. Cheers 👍📕📕📕📖📖📖🎃🎃🎃

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Max. Glad you enjoyed it!