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Laird Barron

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Born

in Palmer, Alaska, The United States

Website

http://lairdbarron.wordpress.com/

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Genre

Horror, Crime, History

Influences

H.P. Lovecraft; Martin Cruz Smith; Cormac McCarthy; TED Klein; James D ...more

Member Since

February 2008

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Laird Barron, an expat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

Photo credit belongs to Ardi Alspach

Agent: Janet Reid of FinePrint Literary Management

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Laird Barron's Blog

Goodbye, Athena

We laid Athena to rest early this evening in the shade of the big sycamores and pines in our yard. I have done hard things in my life, but nothing as hard as this. Thank you to DG Brown, Jessica M., and Mr. Gaunt for helping send my good girl across the twilight divide.

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Athena Barron, 11/10/02; 7/30/18

Never in a million years could I have deserved your devotion. You were a pure lig...

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Laird Barron’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 34,381 ratings · 4,238 reviews · 135 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Imago Sequence and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 2,310 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Croning 3.74 avg rating — 2,378 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occultation and Other Stories 4.08 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All 4.01 avg rating — 2,057 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	X's For Eyes 3.72 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light is the Darkness 3.90 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swift to Chase by Laird Barron (Goodreads Author), Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man with No Name 3.77 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 by Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Blumlein , Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
― Laird Barron

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“It’s about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It’s about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.”
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“Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

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