Laird Barron

This year’s Shirley Jackson Awards nominations have produced a particularly distinguished slate in almost every category. In fact, Laird Barron, himself one of the aces in the current pack of horror and dark fiction writers, does a particularly fine thumbnail sketch of the strength of the contemporary genre in “A Stitch in Darkness,” his introduction to this particular nominee […]

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The Year’s Best Weird Fiction anthology series, already setting new standards in recent collections and anthologies for the genre with the release of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1, edited by Laird Barron, and the hotly anticipated Vol. 2, edited by Kathe Koja, has now thrown open the gates for submissions to Year’s Best […]

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Laird Barron’s third and most recent short story collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All almost needs no introduction: it’s Laird Barron’s third collection. For many enthusiasts and proselytes of the current renaissance in dark and weird fiction, that’s all they will need to know. Superlatives fall from its hide like Geatish spear points from […]

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Laird Barron is approaching iconic status in the horror and dark fiction community with almost frightening speed. How many other living authors get a tribute anthology paying homage to their aesthetic when they’re only just into their fourth book? Anyone who is waiting for the bubble to burst, however, is probably going to have to […]

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Public health warning: This book has been known to induce anomie, despair, alienation, disenchantment, toxic doubt, and pervasive crawling fear. It has also been known to make people write about it ecstatically. I’m not the first to succumb. And this isn’t a new book review: The Imago Sequence has been around spreading terror and acedia […]

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The Year’s Best Weird Fiction project has quietly been gathering quite a volume of buzz on its way to Volume 1, which is due out shortly in October. For one thing, it’s edited by Laird Barron, himself one of the best current practitioners of this not-quite-genre. And it doesn’t hurt that its list of authors include […]

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