Laird Barron's Blog, page 18
August 27, 2015
I Am The Abyss
Dark Regions Press is holding a KickStarter for their upcoming anthology I Am the Abyss. Featuring writers such as Jeff Thomas, Steve Resnic, and Michael Marshall Smith and color paintings by Les Edwards, the focus is on the afterlife. My contribution is called NIGHT and ties into the Jessica Mace mythos.
This project is slated to appear in latter 2016.
August 26, 2015
National Dog Day–Athena Edition
Happy National Dog Day!
August 25, 2015
A Little Brown Book of Burials
On September 10, Borderlands Press is bringing out my contribution to their long-running Little Books series. A Little Brown Book of Burials is up for pre-order at this very moment. This special edition is signed and limited to 500 copies. It contains three reprint stories (Man with No Name is a novella) and an essay (about 25k in total).
This is a prestigious line and I’m proud Borderlands Press has made me a part of it.
Table of Contents:
“Gamma” originally appeared in Fungi
Man with No Name appeared in A Mountain Walked
“D T” appeared in A Season in Carcosa
“Babes in the Wilderness” appeared in Nightmare Magazine
August 16, 2015
Read This: Black Gate Reviews The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7
James McGlothlin is back with another review. This time he takes a look at Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7.
LA Review of Books also takes a crack at it, with mixed results.
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7
August 6, 2015
Seize the Night Gets a PW Star
Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror has received a nifty starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Thank you to Chris Golden for soliciting my story, “In a Cavern, in a Canyon.” The initial feedback is heartening as I plan a novel based upon events in this story.
The ToC is stellar. (I recommend reading my story and John Langan’s back to back for…reasons)
August 5, 2015
July 31, 2015
On Writing: Tim Waggoner
Tim Waggoner breaks it down. Some of the finest, most practical information you’re going to run across. Class is in session.
July 30, 2015
Read This: Joseph Pulver Speaks
Horror author, poet, editor–Joseph Pulver has carved his own niche in contemporary weird fiction, and he guards his roost like a bloody-mouthed sphinx. Here’s an interview with Schlock Magazine.
Go forth and buy one of Joe’s books. A House of Hollow Wounds is his latest.
July 26, 2015
On Writing: Grist
Every day, I record three or four one-sentence story ideas. No matter how absurd, or unlikely, or fragmentary, every day I write them down.
July 22, 2015
ToC for Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond
If someone had told my teenage self I’d sell a Bond story to a major anthology one day…Thank you to editors Ashby and Nickle for accepting “The Cyclorama.”
ToC of Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond Table of contents:
Forward by Matt Sherman
Introduction: The Bitch is Dead by David Nickle
“One Is Sorrow” by Jacqueline Baker
“The Gale of the World” by Robert J. Wiersema
“Red Indians” by Richard Lee Byers
“The Gladiator Lie” by Kelly Robson
“Half the Sky” by E.L. Chen
“In Havana” by Jeffrey Ford
“Mastering the Art of French Killing” by Michael Skeet
“A Dirty Business” by Iain McLaughlin
“Sorrow’s Spy” by Catherine McLeod
“Mosaic” by Karl Schroeder
“The Spy Who Remembered Me” by James Alan Gardner
“Daedelus” by Jamie Mason
“Through Your Eyes Only” by A.M. Dellamonica
“Two Graves” by Ian Rogers
“No Mr. Bond” by Charles Stross
“The Man with the Beholden Gun: an e-pistol-ary story by some other Ian Fleming” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
“The Cyclorama” by Laird Barron
“You Never Love Once” by Claude Lalumière
“Not an Honourable Disease” by Corey Redekop
Afterword by Madeline Ashby
image via SFSIGNAL
