[COMPLETE] Short Cleanup: The Imago Sequence

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There are a number of issues with several editions of the short story collection The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron. I’m just going to run down the order they appear on the Editions page. This book has gone through a ton of different Kindle releases, so I’ll be skipping any that are no longer available on Amazon.

1. All Editions

- The original publication date should be July 1, 2007. This is the publication date listed on the publisher’s website for the first edition of the book.

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2. Hardcover Edition: The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (ISBN 9781597800884)

- The page count is incorrect. It should have 239 pages. (Source: there is a complete photo scan of a physical copy of the book available on the Internet Archive to borrow and read, and the page numbering stops there.)

- The description is missing. It should read as follows:
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship.

Collected here for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella “The Imago Sequence,” the International Horror Guild Award-nominated “Proboscis,” and the never-before-published “Procession of the Black Sloth.” Together, these stories, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony, form a shocking cycle of distorted evolution, encroaching chaos, and ravenous insectoid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly benign surface of the Earth.

With colorful protagonists, including an over-the-hill CIA agent, a grizzled Pinkerton detective, and a failed actor accompanying a group of bounty hunters, Barron’s stories are resonant and authentic, featuring vulnerable, hard-boiled tough guys attempting to stand against the stygian wasteland of night. Throughout the collection, themes of desolation, fear, and masculine identity are played out against the backdrop of an indifferent, devouring cosmos.

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3. Paperback Edition: The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (ISBN 9781597801461)

- The page count is incorrect. It should be 248 pages. Source: I have a copy of the paperback in my hands right now, the last numbered page is 248 and after that it’s just ads for Barron’s other books.

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4. Limited Edition Hardcover: The Imago Sequence: And Other Stories (ISBN 9781597801188)

- The colon needs to be removed from the title and the "A" in "And" needs to be lowercase.

- The book is labeled as “Unknown Binding”. It’s a hardcover.

- It should be noted in the Editions field that this is a limited edition hardcover of the book.

- The publication date is incorrect. It should be July 1, 2007.

- I have no concrete evidence to prove this, but I am decently sure that the page count is incorrect. The limited edition hardcover had an extra story that wasn’t included in the standard edition hardcover, entitled “Hour of the Cyclops”. The standard hardcover has 239 pages, so obviously if there was an extra story, it would have to have more than that. The current paperback edition of the book includes “Hour of the Cyclops”, and it has 248 pages (as I mentioned in Entry 3). This, combined with the fact that the standard edition hardcover (Entry 2) was listed as having 248 pages before the page count change that I discussed in its entry, leads me to believe that the limited edition hardcover should have 248 pages. If this research isn’t enough to allow the page count change to be made, I understand.

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It's been a little over a week, so I'm bumping the thread.

[Mousum]

done

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Mousum wrote: "done"

The limited edition hardcover still needs the note in the Editions field that it's a limited edition. Could you please add that?

Thank you for all of your help with the other editions.

[Mousum]

done

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Thanks!