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Read [Laird Barron Book] * Occultation and Other Stories Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Occultation and Other Stories Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. P. Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte." Featur
| Title | : | Occultation and Other Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597801925 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
Writing with a poet's eye for detail and a folklorist's understanding of mythos, Barron lives up to his reputation for elegant, subtle, and nightmare-inducing tales with a Lovecraftian edge in his second short story collection (after 2007's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories), which includes six reprints and three original stories. A mysterious guidebook leads four men on a terrifying camping trip in Mysterium Tremendum. A guerrilla art exhibit turns murderous in the taut and bloody Strappado. . Heartbreaking, hilarious, sophisticated, and gory, these stories will thrill, trouble, and haunt Barron's fans and have newcomers scrambling to search for his other work. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In The Lagerstätte, a woman who cannot come to terms with
Michael Grover said Literary horror that captivates while scaring you to death. After reading Jody Rose's exhaustive critique of Laird Barron's OCCULTATION, I'm not sure what more I can add that's of value, but I'll certainly give it a shot, because the more people there are singing this fellow's praises, the better. Before I get to the book itself, let me just say that Laird Barron is, without a doubt, one of the best horror writers to come . Laird Barron at his best Dwayne Burball It's a toss up between Occultation and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All for my favorite collection from Laird Barron. Both were near impossible for me to put down. While the stories share common elements, each generally marks a different world, different time period and well-defined, complex characters at odds with some bit of cosmic nastiness or another.The. Bill said Dark, brooding and bleak. Excellent!. I don’t know what it is about Laird Barron’s work that I enjoy so much. Yes, the dude can write. Yes, his characterizations are really good in short formats and his monsters are crazy cool. He also uses a lot of big “old-timey” words and that would usually turn me off, but LB makes it work and gives his stories their own voice and flavor. D
Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. P. Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte." Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and 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. He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Contents: Introduction by Michael Shea The Forest Occultation The Lagerstatte Mysterium Tremendum (original to this collection) Catch Hell Strappado The Broadsword --30-- (original to this collection)
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