The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Author: Laird Barron | Language: English | ISBN:
B00B0SBF1Y | Format: EPUB
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Description
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.
- File Size: 2417 KB
- Print Length: 280 pages
- Publisher: Night Shade Books (August 13, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B0SBF1Y
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,940 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I have a confession to make. This is my second Laird Barron book and I didn't finish the first one. Being a fan of H.P. Lovecraft and weird fiction, I had constantly come across Mr. Barron's name among favorite author lists. There were reviews by people whose opinion I respected, that claimed Laird Barron as one of the contemporary great names in weird fiction. Eventually, I purchased his collection Occultation, but after reading the first couple stories, I gave up and put it aside. I didn't blame the author, it was obvious he was a talented writer. I thought perhaps his style was not my cup of tea, or horror of horrors, maybe I just wasn't intelligent enough to appreciate his work! Well, a few months went by and I started hearing about this new collection of stories. Then the Lovecraft eZine mentioned that the Kindle version of the book was only $1.99 and gave it a glowing recommendation. So, I decided to try again and man am I glad I did. I'm not sure what the problem was the first time and I plan to revisit that earlier collection of tales, but now I GET IT! These stories are soooooo enjoyable and masterfully written. The tale "Hand Of Glory" alone is worth the full price of the book. As a matter of fact, if I were reviewing ONLY that one story, it would easily receive 5 stars. It is one of the best weird tales I have ever read. The author's descriptions of events and dialogue are incredibly creative and vivid. Take for example this excerpt, describing the death of one of the characters "Took a couple of seconds for Bane to register it was curtains.
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