β Scribed by Barron, Laird
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barronβs stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous yearβs best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.
Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including βBlackwoodβs Baby,β βThe Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,β and βThe Men from Porlock,β The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
Laird Barron: Laird Barron is the author of two collections: The Imago
Sequence, and Occultation. His work has appeared in
many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan,
Barron currently resides in the wilds of Upstate New York.
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Intro; Praise for Laird Barron's Occultation; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction by Norman Partridge; Blackwood's Baby; The Redfield Girls; Hand of Glory; The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven; The Siphon; Jaws of Saturn; Vastation; The Men from Porlock; More Dark; Acknowledgements;Over
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