Laird Barron
Autor/a de The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Thinking about books
Sèrie
Obres de Laird Barron
The Forest 7 exemplars
Proboscis 6 exemplars
The Lagerstätte 6 exemplars
Hallucigenia (novella) 6 exemplars
Old Virginia 6 exemplars
The Imago Sequence (novella) 5 exemplars
Behold the Void 4 exemplars
The Broadsword 3 exemplars
Strappado (short story) 3 exemplars
Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2 2 exemplars
Frontier Death Song 2 exemplars
Bulldozer 2 exemplars
Blackwood's Baby 2 exemplars
The Men from Porlock 2 exemplars
-30- 2 exemplars
Mysterium Tremendum (novella) 2 exemplars
The Lonely Death of Mr Haringa 2 exemplars
Hour Of the Cyclops 2 exemplars
Not a Speck of Light: Stories 2 exemplars
Parallax 2 exemplars
Shiva, Open Your Eye 2 exemplars
Contemplad el vacío 1 exemplars
Burnt Black Suns 1 exemplars
The Redfield Girls 1 exemplars
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & other Horrors 1 exemplars
Occultation [short story] 1 exemplars
(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness 1 exemplars
Blood & Stardust (short story) 1 exemplars
Gamma 1 exemplars
Vastation 1 exemplars
Six Six Six 1 exemplars
Catch Hell 1 exemplars
The Royal Zoo Is Closed 1 exemplars
Procession of the Black Sloth 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Col·laborador — 390 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Col·laborador — 235 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Col·laborador — 232 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Col·laborador — 222 exemplars
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Col·laborador — 207 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Col·laborador — 168 exemplars
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Col·laborador — 132 exemplars
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre (2016) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (2012) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror (2021) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Barron, Laird Samuel
- Data de naixement
- 1970
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Palmer, Alaska, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Palmer, Alaska, USA
Olympia, Washington, USA - Professions
- author
poet
sled dog racer - Relacions
- Barron, Jason (brother)
- Premis i honors
- Shirley Jackson Award (2007, 2010)
- Agent
- Janet Reid
Membres
Converses
THE DEEP ONES: "Old Virginia" by Laird Barron a The Weird Tradition (setembre 2015)
Laird Barron a Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (agost 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 54
- També de
- 97
- Membres
- 2,662
- Popularitat
- #9,638
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 80
- ISBN
- 58
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 17
Oh, wait. He's just referencing Horseheads for the name and the tale of Sullivan's march, re-imagined for modern times. Thanks for the lectures, btw. Horse heads on pikes are unsettling and spooky.
All the descriptions are much like the part of the state where I live, which is down the Chemung River about 20 miles (32 km) from Horseheads and Elmira in a place that's actually called the Valley. If you referenced “the Valley” in this region, that's what people would think of, not Horseheads.
So much for research. You just looked up information online, didn't you? Despite living a very short distance away with easy access to information.
All that would have been fine if Meg and Delia weren't back. So annoying. So boring. So insulting.
Perfect Meg. Perfect, stunningly beautiful, ever-so-smart librarian Meg. She floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee, vulnerable, yet tough. So is Delia. Perfect Delia, protector of the dynamic duo, rich, unattainable beauty, perfect body. Both designed to hang from the arms of our flawed heroes at parties, have interesting home lives, and quip perfect lines. How did our heroes find these perfect women among all the dishwater women of upstate NY? It was fate, I tell you. Fate.
That's the thing. Within all of my criticisms, I liked the story, and was able to skim over the excessive Delia and Meg adoration. I wouldn't have been so miffed if the lectures hadn't been so heavy-handed and needlessly wedged into the story.
I'm sick of being pulled out of a story because authors feel the need to paint the story with long tirades of their personal politics. It isn't that I disagree with them. I just don't care. It doesn't add to a story, it distracts from it.
I enjoyed the last book, so I will probably read the next when it comes out, but jeez, this was a mess.… (més)