Laird Barron
Forfatter af The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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Serier
Værker af Laird Barron
The Forest 7 eksemplarer
Proboscis 6 eksemplarer
The Lagerstätte 6 eksemplarer
Hallucigenia (novella) 6 eksemplarer
Old Virginia 6 eksemplarer
The Imago Sequence (novella) 5 eksemplarer
Behold the Void 4 eksemplarer
The Broadsword 3 eksemplarer
Strappado (short story) 3 eksemplarer
Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2 2 eksemplarer
Frontier Death Song 2 eksemplarer
Bulldozer 2 eksemplarer
Blackwood's Baby 2 eksemplarer
The Men from Porlock 2 eksemplarer
-30- 2 eksemplarer
Mysterium Tremendum (novella) 2 eksemplarer
The Lonely Death of Mr Haringa 2 eksemplarer
Hour Of the Cyclops 2 eksemplarer
Not a Speck of Light: Stories 2 eksemplarer
Parallax 2 eksemplarer
Shiva, Open Your Eye 2 eksemplarer
Contemplad el vacío 1 eksemplar
Burnt Black Suns 1 eksemplar
The Redfield Girls 1 eksemplar
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & other Horrors 1 eksemplar
Occultation [short story] 1 eksemplar
(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness 1 eksemplar
Blood & Stardust (short story) 1 eksemplar
Gamma 1 eksemplar
Vastation 1 eksemplar
Six Six Six 1 eksemplar
Catch Hell 1 eksemplar
The Royal Zoo Is Closed 1 eksemplar
Procession of the Black Sloth 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Bidragyder — 390 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Bidragyder — 235 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Bidragyder — 232 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Bidragyder — 222 eksemplarer
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Bidragyder — 207 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Bidragyder — 168 eksemplarer
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre (2016) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (2012) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror (2021) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Barron, Laird Samuel
- Fødselsdato
- 1970
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Palmer, Alaska, USA
- Bopæl
- Palmer, Alaska, USA
Olympia, Washington, USA - Erhverv
- author
poet
sled dog racer - Relationer
- Barron, Jason (brother)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Shirley Jackson Award (2007, 2010)
- Agent
- Janet Reid
Medlemmer
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "Old Virginia" by Laird Barron i The Weird Tradition (september 2015)
Laird Barron i Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (august 2012)
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 54
- Also by
- 97
- Medlemmer
- 2,663
- Popularitet
- #9,635
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 80
- ISBN
- 58
- Sprog
- 3
- Udvalgt
- 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.… (mere)