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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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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 and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron's stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including "Blackwood's Baby", "The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven", and "The Men from Porlock", The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.

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Very solid title, Barron has a sophisticated writing style without becoming too verbose. Some in the anthology are stronger than others; Blackwoods Baby, Redfield Girls, Hand of Glory and Men from Porlock are standouts.

Well Written & Solid Overall

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Great narration, some short stories I wished were longer to flesh out the characters.

Fantastic otherworldly storytelling

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