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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, Fantasy

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 New Leaf Literary & Media

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Dispel

A little something I wrote for the reissue of David Nickle’s wonderful collection, Monstrous Affections.

Monstrous Affections: Stories by [David Nickle]

Dispel

by Laird Barron

Who the hell is Len?

In the dream I’m trapped in a David N story. “Looker” got reprinted in a year’s best anthology and I read it and said to myself, damn. Which is absurdly prophetic. In the dream, and maybe the original story, there’s a beach house and a party throw

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Average rating: 3.88 · 59,511 ratings · 7,830 reviews · 173 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Croning 3.73 avg rating — 4,605 ratings — published 2012 — 18 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 Imago Sequence and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 3,804 ratings — published 2007 — 14 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 3.98 avg rating — 3,741 ratings — published 2013 — 17 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 by Laird Barron (Goodreads Author), Michael Shea (Introduction) 4.08 avg rating — 3,251 ratings — published 2010 — 13 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) 3.98 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 2018 — 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 3.66 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2015 — 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) 3.98 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Light is the Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 861 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
	Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge #2) 3.98 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Man with No Name 3.63 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 2016 — 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

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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

tags: enlightenment

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“The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.”
― Laird Barron, The Croning

tags: cosmic-horror

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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.”
― Laird Barron

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