Books written by Laird Barron

  • Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror (Vol. I - Seas & Oceans)

    With thirty stories from thirty talented authors, aquatic terror has never been so chilling...or deep. FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror (Vol.

  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories

    Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.

  • Year's Best Weird Fiction

    The inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity.

  • The Imago Sequence

    The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and ...

  • Blood Standard

    Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw--a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. ...

  • Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror

    Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp.

  • Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror

    Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp.

  • Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War

    Men shattered, women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue and Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural -- ghost stories that range from the haunts of the battlefield to revenants on the long march home. Yank.

  • A Season in Carcosa

    "[This collection] features all new tales in tribute to the creations of Robert W. Chambers"--Page 4 of cover

  • New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird

    Now, New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird brings you more eldritch tales and even fresher fiction inspired by Lovecraft.

  • Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge

    It is not just an anthology of hard science fiction, however. This book also contains examples of science fantasy as well as some classic vampire stories including an updated reprint from William F. Nolan.

  • Occultation

    No cell phone, although he left a note for his lawyer and a recorded message at Kyla's place in Malibu warning them it might be a few days, perhaps a week, that there probably was not even phone service where he was going.

  • Limbus, Inc. -

    The Limbus saga continues with five more stories of horror, science fiction, and fantasy from some of the industry's brightest stars - Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Laird Barron and David Liss.

  • Ashes and Entropy

    "The editor's claim that the first season of True Detective was a big inspiration for this anthology is evident: Ashes and Entropy sports a finely balanced mixture of grit, crime...

  • The Gods of HP Lovecraft

    "Collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos"--

  • Black Mountain

    Ex-Mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced.

  • The Imago Sequence

    Collected here for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella “The Imago Sequence,” the International Horror Guild Award-nominated “Proboscis,” and the never-before ...

  • Limbus, Inc. -

    The Limbus saga continues with five more stories of horror, science fiction, and fantasy from some of the industry's brightest stars - Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Laird Barron and David Liss.

  • There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror

    Contact was usually made through a medium, a person who claimed to have the ability to speak with the dead.There Is No Death, There Are No Dead tackles all aspects of the spiritualist movement: from the true believers to the nay-sayers, the ...

  • Black Mountain

    . . A twisty, action-packed follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Standard, Black Mountain cements Laird Barron as an inventive and remarkable voice in crime fiction.