Every Lovecraftian should be reading Laird Barron. His newest collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, is now available for pre-order.
I remember reading The Imago Sequence several years ago; it was so disturbing that I actually put it aside for awhile before continuing. Laird grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. And I won’t spoil the plot of his Lovecraftian novel The Croning, but I will say that the end was absolutely terrifying. And not just the end…
If you’re reading this, then I’ll assume you are a Lovecraft fan, and if you’re a Lovecraft fan, you need to read Laird Barron. Visit Laird Barron’s Amazon page and browse his books.
Honestly, I consider him to be one of the best Lovecraftian writers out there. So do many others.
From Amazon, regarding The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All:
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, Barron’s stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s 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 “Blackwood’s Baby,” “The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,” and “The Men from Porlock,” The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
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I loved The Croning! Can’t wait to read this too.
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It’s a really excellent anthology – I was able to read it through NetGalley. It’ll be worth waiting for!
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The date has indeed changed multiple times, but we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. From Laird’s Facebook page last week: “The word has been given–The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All has gone to print and should be in the world by mid to late August. Thank you to Janet Reid for her tireless efforts on my behalf, and thank you to my readers for your patience.” Just in time for his turn as one of two Special Gust Authors at NecronomiCon Providence (the other is Caitlín R. Kiernan). And I completely agree with Mike and Tim — Barron’s work at times genuinely unsettles me, making him one of my favorite authors.
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The release date for this collection keeps getting pushed, which is frustrating. But Barron is a major talent, kind of a mix of horror, Hemingway, hard-boiled crime fiction, and superhero myth. If one is unfamiliar with Barron, I would suggest starting with “The Men from Porlock,” a long story which introduces many aspects of Laird’s “mythos.” And his prose is damn scary, just like Mike says.
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