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Laird Barron

(b.1970)

Laird Barron was born in Alaska, where he raised and trained huskies for many years.

He moved to the Pacific Northwest in the mid 90s and began to concentrate on writing poetry and fiction.

His award-nominated work has appeared in Sci Fiction, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and has been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Year's Best Fantasy 6 and Best New Fantasy: 2005.

Mr. Barron currently resides in upstate New York and is hard at work on many projects.

Awards: Stoker (2013), Jackson (2011) see all

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Fantasy

New and upcoming books

February 2025

Agate Way
(Tor.Com Original)

Series

Isaiah Coleridge
   1. Blood Standard (2018)
   2. Black Mountain (2019)
   3. Worse Angels (2020)
   The Wind Began to Howl (2023)

Novels

The Croning (2012)
The Light Is The Darkness (2012)

Collections

   The Imago Sequence (2007)
   Occultation (2010)
   Shades of Blue and Gray (2013) (with Albert E Cowdrey and Nick Mamatas)
   Swift to Chase (2016)
   The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2018)
   Not a Speck of Light (2024)

Novellas and Short Stories

X's For Eyes (2015)
Man With No Name (2016)

Series contributed to

Year's Best Weird Fiction
1. Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 (2014)

Come Join Us By The Fire
Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2 (2021) (with others)
Joren Falls (2021)

Heroic Legends
12. Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness (2024)

Tor.Com Original
Agate Way (2025)

Books containing stories by Laird Barron

Fears (2024)
Tales of Psychological Horror
edited by
Ellen Datlow

The Drive-In: Multiplex (2024)
edited by
Christopher Golden and Brian Keene

Disintegration (2023)
edited by
Darren Speegle

More books

Awards

	2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection : Occultation
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella : Mysterium Tremendum
	2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection : The Imago Sequence

Award nominations

	2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Not a Speck of Light
	2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Versus Versus
	2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees
	2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Swift to Chase: A Collection of Stories
	2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
	2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Jaws of Saturn
	2014 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
	2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Hand of Glory
	2013 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Hand of Glory
	2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Frontier Death Song
	2012 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Men from Porlock
	2012 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Blackwood's Baby
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : six six six
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Redfield Girls
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Broadsword
	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : --30--
	2011 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : --30--
	2011 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Occultation
	2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Strappado
	2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Catch Hell
	2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Occultation
	2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Lagerstatte
	2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Forest
	2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Procession of the Black Sloth
	2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Forest
	2008 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Imago Sequence
	2007 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Hallucigenia
	2007 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : The Imago Sequence
	2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Imago Sequence
	2006 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Imago Sequence
	2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Hallucigenia

Laird Barron recommends

In the Mad Mountains (2024)
Joe R Lansdale
"Horror royalty Joe Lansdale's take on cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos is everything you'd hope for-bloody, profane, grimly humorous, and as vivid as Technicolor hell splashed on a 20-foot tall silver screen."

Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024)
(Lunar Gothic Trilogy, book 1)
Nathan Ballingrud
"Crypt of the Moon Spider is a Gothic fantasy where madness nests within madness of emotional vistas that are as bleak as bleached bones. Ballingrud's immense talent shines, cold and furious."

The Deading (2024)
Nicholas Belardes
"Belardes is a fine writer. The Deading hits hard out of the gate and keeps escalating. A delightfully gruesome combination of science fiction and eco-horror."

The North Line (2024)
Matt Riordan
"Riordan is summoning demons in this grimy wilderness saga that might hit entirely too close to home for those who know. Magnificent."

Sister, Maiden, Monster (2023)
Lucy A Snyder
"Compulsive, masterfully wrought combinations of horror -body, plague, and cosmic. I was glued to Sister, Maiden, Monster way past lights-out."

The Black Maybe (2022)
Attila Veres
"Attila Veres is fiendishly talented. Certain images in The Black Maybe caused me to glance at the darkened corners of my office as I read into the wee hours."

No Gods For Drowning (2022)
Hailey Piper
"Wrathful gods, drowning cities, and an ancient, bloody mystery - Piper's novel had me from the jump. No Gods For Drowning is a superior offering."

Lucky Girl (2022)
Mary Rickert
"M. Rickert at her ice-cold best."

The Sharp End of the Rainbow (2022)
Madeleine Swann
"The Sharp End of the Rainbow goes hard out of the gate and dives deep into nightmare territory. Swann's writing is flensing and wrathful--which is to say it perfectly suits the times."

Ghost Recall (2021)
(Eli Carver, book 3)
Alan Baxter
"Vintage Baxter: fast, sleek, and bloody-minded."

Every Hidden Thing (2021)
Ted Flanagan
"Every Hidden Thing centers the notion of power and madness as communicable diseases with media as a carrier. Flanagan's prose unspools like a particularly brutal lucid dream."

Hymns of Abomination (2021)
Uncredited
"Hymns of Abomination is a vivid, communal nightmare. A fitting tribute to a contemporary master of the weird."

Brand New Dark (2021)
Beau Johnson
"Johnson doesn't play nice. When it comes to ultra-violence, he's doing for crime what Barker did for horror. Brand New Dark will slap you in the mouth."

Shadows in Summerland (2020)
Adrian Van Young
"Adrian Van Young works a rich plot of historical North American literature in [Shadows in Summerland]. . . . A fabulous and weird addition to the contemporary fantastic."

At the Mercy of Beasts (2018)
Ed Kurtz
"At the Mercy of Beasts showcases Kurtz's many talents. He doesn't slight the humanity of man or beast. Bloody, soulful, and yet delightfully absurdist, these stories represent epic storytelling."

The Son of Tall Eagle (2017)
(Tall Eagle, book 2)
John R Fultz
"...myth-making of epic scope. Fultz has rapidly matured into a major fantasist."

The Fisherman (2016)
John Langan
"The Fisherman is an epic, yet intimate, horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James, Robert E. Howard, and Norman Maclean. What you get is A river Runs Through It...Straight to hell."

Altar (2016)
Philip Fracassi
"Altar is redolent of hard-edged supernatural horror from the golden days of McCammon and King. Nobody is safe in a Fracassi story."

Down (2012)
Nate Southard
"A sleek and nasty tale, Southard continues to carve a name for himself with Down."

Southern Gods (2011)
John Hornor Jacobs
"A bit of HP Lovecraft, a touch of William Hjortsberg, Southern Gods is an effective combination of cosmic horror and southern Gothic traditions. John Hornor Jacobs will turn heads with this debut."

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