Laird Barron

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror....

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight....

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. In addition, this collection contains an original story....

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas....

Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska - he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the money-making scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear....

Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation contains eight tales of terror....

The cutting edge of horror has never cut deeper than in this comprehensive showcase of the very best the field has to offer. Enter at your own risk....

Ex-mob enforcer-turned-Private Investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions....

A brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose....

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced....

A seemingly benign case gradually pulls mob enforcer-turned-PI Isaiah Coleridge into a chilling mix of music, movie magic, mayhem, and madness. This time, Coleridge's dark journey forces him to confront a brutal truth: For some who try to escape the past, there is no way out.

Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks....

For one retiree, the past can never be packed away. "Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of nine short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology....

Thomas Malone thought he'd seen it all during his 25 years in the Birmingham homicide division....

Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists....

Here are six stories from the January and February 2003 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction...