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Laird Barron

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Born

in Palmer, Alaska, The United States

Website

http://lairdbarron.wordpress.com/

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Genre

Horror, Crime, Fantasy

Influences

H.P. Lovecraft; Martin Cruz Smith; Cormac McCarthy; TED Klein; James D ...more

Member Since

February 2008

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Laird Barron, an expat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

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Agent: Janet Reid of New Leaf Literary & Media

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Average rating: 3.91 · 63,047 ratings · 8,166 reviews · 172 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Croning 3.72 avg rating — 6,190 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Imago Sequence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,768 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All 3.99 avg rating — 4,555 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron (Goodreads Author), Michael Shea (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 3,989 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 2,223 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not a Speck of Light: Stories 4.03 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	X's For Eyes 3.59 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swift to Chase by Laird Barron (Goodreads Author), Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 1,065 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light is the Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 921 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
― Laird Barron

tags: enlightenment

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“The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.”
― Laird Barron, The Croning

tags: cosmic-horror

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“It’s about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It’s about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.”
― Laird Barron

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A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough

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The Merciless by Danielle Vega

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The Croning by Laird Barron

2 votes, 1.1%

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

2 votes, 1.1%

The Medicine People by Lazarus Barnhill

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1 vote, 0.5%

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The Rapture by Liz Jensen

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