Occultation and Other Stories: And Other Stories

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror from the heir apparent to Lovecraft's throne.

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's nine tales of terror (two published here for the first time) were nominated for just as many Shirley Jackson awards, winning for the novella "Mysterium Tremendum" and the collection as a whole. Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.
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Author: Laird Barron
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.60w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781597801928


Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/2010 pg. 42
Booklist 05/15/2010 pg. 28

About the Author
Laird Barron: Laird Barron is the author of two collections: The Imago
Sequence, and Occultation. His work has appeared in
many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan,
Barron currently resides in the wilds of Upstate New York


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