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The Gods of H P Lovecraft

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Robin Marx's Writing Repository May 14, 2025

Capsule Review Archive – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

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Capsule Review Archive – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

This review originally appeared on Goodreads on November 6, 2013. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All By Laird Barron – Night Shad...

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Sean Eric Fagan May 6, 2025

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Laird Barron's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT: STORIES, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lojiqqmr5c2y

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Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT: STORIES, which I *have*, and have given away before, but haven't read yet. Oops. Let me know what you think? #KindleBookGiveaway

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Robin Marx's Writing Repository Feb 26, 2025

Capsule Review Archive – The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

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Capsule Review Archive – The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

This review originally appeared on Goodreads on June 22, 2015. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories By Laird Barron – Night Shade Boo...

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Tenebris Nox Feb 25, 2025

Read and recommend Laird Barron’s new story, “Agate Way”. It’s Barron at his best involving sisters hired to hunt down whatever’s killing animals on the outskirts of a town falling into ruin. There’s a touch of “Annihilation” mixed with classic Barron cults, gnawing horror and (I think) the presence of the Children of Old Leech in there. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

It’s also online for free: https://reactormag.com/agate-way-laird-barron/

#reading #LairdBarron

Agate Way - Reactor

A pair of sisters are hired to find--and if necessary, dispose of--whatever is killing neighborhood pets in a dying town.

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Li Kao Dec 24, 2024

Life hack for the protagonists of Lovecraftian horror.

When the half crazy professor drugged out of his mind says ‘There is an unspeakable entity from beyond time in this cave’.

You don’t. I repeat, YOU DON’T, answer ‘Where is this cave you speak of’.

Fucking newbs.

#WeirdFiction #Lovecraft #LairdBarron

Jakub Erebos Mar 19, 2024

Právě dočteno.

Laird Barron a jeho pocta Lovecraftovi, který ho očividně velmi ovlivnil. Nejedná se však o nějakou vykrádačku, fan-fikci apod., ne, Barron má svůj styl a píše mu to skvělé. Chcete akci a potoky krve? V tom případě jste na špatné adrese. Tady jde hlavně o hutnou a temnou atmosféru říznutou okultismem, špetkou konspiračních teorií, surreálnem a kosmickým hororem

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Mopsi Dick Dec 11, 2023

Eine Sache, die 2024 passieren wird, ist ein Mystery #pnpde in der #bayarea während des #SummerOfLove 1967. Inspirationen: #Pynchon, #Lynch, #LairdBarron #gratefuldead Ich freue mich schon sehr. #ttrpg

Jakub Erebos Oct 27, 2023

#kniha #knihy #recenze #lairdbarron #BrianEvenson #horor #horror #book #books #weirdfiction #lovecraftian #ctart @knihy
https://art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/horory-jimiz-se-zatemnuje-svet-vysly-nove-preklady-soucasnych-autoru-lovecraftovske-hruzy-dn5Ej?fbclid=IwAR13PXglYIskac5YTFFaz9ioeAhNHAbXT_Mx9toLRmrUkK1qug7Ak9GCqh4

Horory, jimiž se zatemňuje svět. Vyšly nové překlady současných autorů lovecraftovské hrůzy

Recenze knihy Jamese McBridea Jáhen King Kong.

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November Grau Jul 15, 2023

Just finished the first volume of Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, an anthology by Mike Allen. This one came out in 2008, and is very loosely themed around fire, gears and resurrection, with an unconventional introduction about a phoenix and a magical train.

The line-up of contributing authors (or "pinions" as Allen calls them), features many of the decade's big names in SFF and horror. Catherynne Valente's "The City of Blind Delight" is most closely tied to the themes and has the rich multisensory charm for which she is known. The Cats Rambo ("The Drew Drop Coffee Lounge") and Sparks ("Palisade") both make fine appearances, and Tanith Lee provides a characteristically glamorous look at another world where all the gender and sex stuff has Gone A Bit Wrong ("The Woman"), though not without a few silver linings!

There are a lot of dystopias here, and though in most cases the promised element of beauty is certainly there, as the anthology proceeded through one awful future or parallel world after another I did struggle with the downbeat vibe. There are also a couple of high fantasy numbers that have dated badly, both as regards shallow depiction of women and/or rape and in terms of general cliched style (though I guess anyone who deliberately reads a story called "Choosers of the Slain" deserves what they get).

My favourite stories were both set in what is pessimistically referred to as the "real world": Michael J. DeLuca's "The Tarrying Messenger", about a self-righteous student on a cycling tour who comes upon a strange form of evangelism in the Arizona desert, has beautiful writing of a kind that seems to have fallen from fashion lately, and which draws a strong feeling of magic from sharp observations of places and buildings (and, of course, people). I also liked "The Occultation", an early one by Laird Barron. Like many Europeans I am a bit obsessed with American motel culture, especially when things get ghostly.

And finally Leah Bobet's "Bell, Book and Candle" also deserves a mention. None of the main characters in it are truly human but Bobet makes the reader identify with them as if they were, while still keeping their essential otherness and weirdness intact. That's difficult to achieve - so difficult, in fact, that I tend to avoid books with casts of non-human characters.

Anyway, although I'm by no means a fan of all speculative fiction - I skew towards horror and dark fantasy - the quality in most of these stories is high, there's plenty of variety, and I sense I will be reviewing more of these books in future! I also recommend ordering directly from Mythic Delirium: mine crossed the Atlantic impressively fast and with a signed dedication!

https://mythicdelirium.com/clockwork-phoenix-tales-of-beauty-and-strangeness

#MikeAllen #LairdBarron #LeahBobet #CatSparks #CatRambo #CatherynneValente #TanithLee #MichaelJDeLuca

#Horror #Fantasy #HorrorReviews

CLOCKWORK PHOENIX: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness • Mythic Delirium Books

The first volume in the acclaimed CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, gathering difficult to classify stories with elements of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

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