Books written by Laird Barron

  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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

  • Dark Discoveries - Issue #34

    All new Fiction by: Darren Speegle, Gene O'Neill, Mercedes M. Yardley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nicholas Kaufmann and Gary Raisor Interviews with: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, S. P. Somtow, Ken Hite and Justin Achilli Articles on: "Stephen King's IT: ...

  • Dark Discoveries -

    Esoteric Introduction by Mark Booth All new Fiction by: Laird Barron, Donald Tyson, John Shirley, Simon R. Green, Simon Strantzas, Glen Hirshberg Interviews with: Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon, Glen Hirshberg, Donald Tyson, Noelle Leon ...

  • Swift to Chase

    Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron’s harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.

  • Worse Angels

    Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.

  • Occultation and Other Stories

    Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation’s nine tales of terror (two published here for the first time) were nominated for just as many Shirley Jackson awards, winning for the novella “Mysterium ...

  • The Croning

    For Donald is about to stumble on the secret... ...of The Croning. From Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Imago Sequence and Occultation, comes The Croning, a debut novel of cosmic horror.

  • Black Mountain

    ... knee-slapper, ain't it? Tell you what, I didn't like that story very much. Gene masked a smoldering anger that always threatened to roar into an inferno. He contained his rage by putting a lid over it, like snuffing a pan fire. This ...

  • Joren Falls: A Short Horror Story

    The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher ...

  • Autumn Cthulhu

    "After summer is winter, and life inevitably gives way to frozen sterility.