The Imago Sequence
by:
Laird Barron (author)
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, while Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his...
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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, while Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0070YQT4A
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages no: 249
Edition language: English
I've tried really hard to develop an appreciation for Laird Barron. I started with The Light is the Darkness and found my expectations outweighed what I was presented with. I've also read The Croning and considered it an overly wordy and bloated novel propped up by a great central concept. So I hope...
Laird Barron has got some pretty serious writing chops. I can’t remember the last time I had to look up so many words in the dictionary while reading. Strangely enough it didn’t bug me like I thought it would and I actually dug checking out the definitions. The subject matter of these shorts are pre...
I have this habit where, whenever I approach an author for the first time, I usually tend to head straight for their anthologies before investing myself in their lengthier, more substantial works. I guess the theory is that, by ‘dipping my toes into the pool’ as it were, I get to decide if I’m going...
I read Barron because of the praises he got and comparison to Ligotti. Though there are good stories in this book (Hallucigenia is a superb one) it is rather a mixed bag. Most of the stories seem forced and the weirdness a bit fabricated. Anyone looking for a really amazing stories should stick with...
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