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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All | Laird Barron
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Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barrons stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous years best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including Blackwoods Baby, The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven, and The Men from Porlock, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
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Reggie
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This collection of short horror stories is one of my favorite books this year so far. A lot of horror I read is “slash slash, kill kill,” but Barron‘s horror is more-allow and forgive me for ripping off a George RR Martin character- “for the night is dark and full of terrors.” Can someone be a horror nature writer? I‘m gonna say yes. Barron grew up in the wilds of Alaska and it shows. There was a paragraph describing a malignant shadow of a 👇🏼

Reggie willow tree and how it fell against the room of an infant and it just terrified me. Great stuff. 3y
BookwormM Will have to get this for my hubby he loves short horror stories 3y
Twainy Brian Keene recommended this author ...I will need to take a lookyloo. 😁 3y
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Twainy Regggggie!! Ray Porter narrates & it‘s free on Audible+! Claimed!! Thank you! 🤗 3y
Reggie @BookwormM I hope he likes it! 3y
Reggie @Twainy Yayyyy lol I‘m glad the short horror story stars aligned for you this morning. 3y
vivastory I read a Barron story in an anthology & loved it. Definitely need to read more by him 3y
Michael_Gee Oh wow! I absolutely hated this collection, lol. Glad to get your perspective! 3y
Reggie @vivastory he‘s so good. He really knows how to set a setting. 3y
Reggie @GhostStories you‘re dead to me. Lol jk. I think his change of gears in writing compared to what I‘ve been reading just worked for me. 3y
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Reggie
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From the first story, Blackwood‘s Baby. The drama already.

Suet624 I can‘t figure out why this author‘s name is familiar. Have you written about other books of his? 4y
Reggie @Suet624 I have. He has a detective series out of which I read the first book back before the New Year. 4y
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Anton
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Had I read this collection two years ago, it probably would have impressed me more. There are some truly great stories here (and some so-so ones) and the writing is spectacular. But having read Barron's later collection (Swift To Chase) and a great novella (Xs For Eyes), my expectations were just set too high. This one still gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, but if you're looking for a truly phenomenal collection from Laird Barron, check out Swift To Chase instead.

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Jokila
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Jokila @Lola lol! see my last post 😂 7y
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Jokila
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Snatched this one up immediately 👍

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brendanmleonard
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It's #reccomendsday ! *kermit flail* Have I told y'all about Laird Barron yet? Guys, this book of short stories is so good. I call Barron the Hemingway of Horror, and this is full of bracing, satisfying, masculine stories of adventure and terror. But wait, there's more - Barron writes playful metatextual stories and tales of female friendship as well. If you like Thomas Ligotti, True Detective, or the Vandermeers, you must read this!

Arbol *kermit flail* 💓❤️💓❤️ 8y
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