Showing posts with label Laird Barron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laird Barron. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2011

Laird Barron edits new 1/4ly journal! !!




Laird Barron has chosen!!! We promised an author announcement here at "Phantasmagorium", and we always deliver. The first issue of "Phantasmagorium" will contain works by:

1. Stephen Graham Jones author of "Demon Theory" (www.demontheory.net)
2. Scott Nicolay author of "Ana Kai Tangata" (www.aklopress.org)
3. Joe Pulver author of "Blood Will Have Its Season" (www.thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com)
...4. Simon Strantzas author of "Beneath the Surface" (www.strantzas.com)
5. Anna Tambour author of "Spotted Lily" (www.annatambour.net)
6. Genevieve Valentine author of "The Nearest Thing" (www.genevievevalentine.com)

Look for it soon!!!

http://www.phantasmagorium.co/

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Laird Barron

"Joe Pulver is that rare artist who wears his influences on his sleeve yet is wholly original. He infuses his mellifluous prose with a raw, intellectual swagger that is sorely lacking in genre fiction. There are many writers of dark fantasy and horror, but after Joe Pulver the gods broke the mold." --Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence

Am humbled yet again . . . Delighted and thankful too.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Some authors Laird Barron feels should be read . . .

Laird Barron posted this list of "horror-dark fantasy authors I think you should go read" on his blog. As he says,"In no particular order and not remotely definitive:"

1. Caitlin Kiernan

2. Sarah Langan

3. Richard Gavin

4. Adam Golaski

5. Maurice Broaddus

6.Lee Thomas

7.Nick Mamatas

8. Paul Tremblay

9. Stephen Graham Jones

10. Michael Cisco

11. Gemma Files

12. Don Tumasonis

13.Tananarive Due

14. Glen Hirshberg

15. Joe Hill

16. Joe Pulver

17. Norman Partridge

18. Sarah Pinborough

19. Allyson Bird

20. Tia V. Travis

I'm delighted and then some to see my name on that list! !!

Laird's blog is here:

http://imago1.livejournal.com/

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Death's Head Blues

"Lord knows I've got 'em.

Handed in the introduction to Joe Pulver's upcoming collection Sin & Ashes, which is up for preorder at Hippocampus. This old boy will make your brain bleed. Ghosts of Thompson, Chambers and Lovecraft, informed by film noir and that badass James Ellroy...Pulver's the kind of stylist who ties you down and works you over while eerie music plays through scratchy intercom speakers and that one naked bulb on a wire flickers and flickers...And the misshapen thing in the suit chuckles from the shadows while its moll smiles and smokes a cigarette with her ivory holder. There's a big black Lincoln in the front lot by the gate, lights on, engine running. It's late, and getting later."

-- Laird Barron, [from a comment on his LJ blog about his intro to my new collection, SIN & ashes.]

Thanks, Laird. I've now read his intro 5 times, blew me away everytime. Praise from one of the true masters of our genre [and he is!], well, it leaves me reeling w/ delight, and over the moon.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Laird Barron

A quick thought on Laird's new collection . . .

Laird Barron has wholly absorbed the metaphysical horrors of HPL's cosmos, the grit and spice of Howard, and the enchanted fragrances of Smith, and filtered and hued his searing fusions in noir and a hundred other disciplines. And with his unerring and brilliant wordsmithing and vast, captivating imagination he has gifted readers with this 2nd collection of masterworks. Yes, masterworks!

Robert M. Price, Ellen Datlow, and many others have praised him as one of the very finest. Truer words have not been uttered. I cannot decide if Occultation is a better collection then Imago, but I know Laird has put money in my power company's pockets, for after reading this new, core-stirring work, which propelled me through the dark corridors of the strange and the fantastic, I kept my lights on for days.

As Barron's work rests alongside the very best of the field, horror fans NEED this wonder! !! `nuff said!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

SIN & ashes UPDATE

After formatting my new collection, SIN & ashes, we discovered the raw files transformed into a very fat tome, so the decision to trim the collection a bit was made. SIN is lighter now. Here is the final ToC.

Love Her Madly ....................................................................................... 13
She’s Waiting . . . ...................................................................................... 33
First There Is A Mountain . . . Then ....................................................... 40
In This Desert Even the Air Burns........................................................... 50
Even Night................................................................................................ 54
Crow in Trick Town ................................................................................. 55
When the Deal Goes Down ...................................................................... 61
Devil’s Got the Walkin’ Blues................................................................... 66
Dead ’Round Here Tonight ..................................................................... 69
The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard ............................................................ 73
As the Sun Still Burns Away ..................................................................... 79
Caligari, Again .......................................................................................... 87
Long-Stemmed Ghost Words................................................................... 91
When the Moon Comes to Call .............................................................. 104
After Reading Michaux’s “In the Land of Magic” ............................... 110
The Walking Man Walks....................................................................... 112
Silent No Longer .................................................................................... 115
The Maiden of the Pines ........................................................................ 122
Last Year in Carcosa ............................................................................... 131
Scarlet Obeisance .................................................................................... 150
Rendezvous Under Shadow Bridge........................................................ 153
in front of an empty house in dead city.................................................... 158
Ain’t No Love on the Street .................................................................... 160
Perfect Grace........................................................................................... 164
Kynothrabian Dirge................................................................................. 170
The Exorcism of Iagsat ........................................................................... 172
Lonesome Separate Ways........................................................................ 175
Just Another Desert Night with Blood .................................................. 179
After Death.............................................................................................. 184
I Often Dream of Words ........................................................................ 195
Forever Changes ..................................................................................... 198
In the White Walls of Silence..................................................................208
Mother Stands for Comfort.....................................................................210
Blow Wind Blow .....................................................................................213
8’s & Aces ................................................................................................218
A One-Way Fare.....................................................................................226
Don’t Look Back.....................................................................................231
Long is the way and hard . . . ...................................................................235
huddled in rags in a Kingsport alley . . . .................................................243
Dead Ends and Empties..........................................................................246
Sharp Fangs + Blood = Murder ...........................................................252
Saint Nicholas Hall..................................................................................256
Funeral in a Hate Field ...........................................................................268
An Orange Tick-Tick-Tick- Tick-Tick .................................................271
Engravings...............................................................................................274
The Last Few Nights in a Life of Frost .................................................282
Epilogue for Two Voices .........................................................................295
To Live and Die in Arkham....................................................................299
The Last Twenty Miles of Wandering Again.........................................310
Acknowledgements..................................................................................319

Laird Barron’s “Introduction” still needs to be added, but everything else is now in place.

As I’ve mentioned before, 6 of these items have previously seen print, the rest are new to this collection.

You can find more info on SIN at the Hippocampus Press website

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Laird Barron

Critically acclaimed and award winning author, Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, Night Shade Books 2007 ) (Occultation, Night Shade Books 2010), has kindly consented to pen the intro for my new collection, SIN & ashes (Hippocampus Press 2010).

As I have stated in the past, Laird is among the finest writers working in the field today. From sage-keen observations to eloquent wordsmithing abilities that stir and inspire, and extraordinary storytelling, his work is that of an unerring master! !!

His new collection, Occultation, will be out next month. Fans of dark fantasy and horror will need this book! ‘nuff said!!

http://imago1.livejournal.com/

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Laird Barron

Laird Barron has a new collection coming out soon. Rejoice! !! His last, The Imago Sequence, was a major work and I expect this tome to be every bit as wonderful.

Surfing around, looking for info on his new book, Occultation, coming in May, I happened upon this posting on his blog.

“This isn't intended to be comprehensive, but here's a list (and feel free to add names in the comments) of some horror authors who've emerged over the past ten plus years. Any new writers looking to see who and what is shaping the horror field could do worse than to start here.* Note: these aren't horror authors per se, but individuals who have done significant work in the horror/dark fantasy field of late and whom I've personally enjoyed. In no particular order: Don Tumasonis Kelly Link Nathan Ballingrud Sarah Langan Charles Coleman Finlay Gemma Files Reggie Oliver Liz Williams Lee Thomas Nate Southard Lucy Sussex Mike Allen Barbara Roden Tom Piccirilli John Langan Cat Rambo (very little horror, but her work on the Surgeon's Tale with Jeff V. is amazing and there's a pretty dark undercurrent in a lot of her stuff)) Matt Cardin Jeff VanderMeer Elizabeth Bear Andy Duncan Anna Tambour Glen Hirshberg Stephen Graham Jones Joe Pulver Darren Speegle Gary Braunbeck Melanie Fazi Joe Hill Lynn Cesar Jennifer Pelland Wilum Pugmire (Wilum has been established for a while, but I sense he's recently come into more popularity) Caitlin Kiernan Sarah Monette Paul Tremblay Ed Morris Michael Kelly F.Brett Cox Michael Cisco Adam Golaski Joe Hill Norm Partridge ( I think Norm may have gotten his start a bit farther back, but he's another who's made his bones in the last decade) M. Rickert Nick Mamatas Lucy Corin Margo Lanagan Cody Goodfellow Melanie Tem Steve Rasnic Tem Steve BermanRay Vukcevich Claudia O'Keefe Albert Cowdrey Maurice Broaddus Will Ludwigsen Livia Llewellyn Nick Kaufmann (Richard Gavin Ian Rogers Simon Strantzas) AKA The Canadians Holly Phillips Dale Bailey Conrad Williams Simon Bestwick Elizabeth Hand Sarah Pinborough Mike O' Driscoll Stewart O'Nan George Saunders Nicholas Royle Joel Lane Gary McMahon Allyson Bird Marly Youmans Terry Lamsley PD Cacek Jeffrey Thomas Dale BaileyDaniel Abraham . . .”

Kiernan, Hand, Cisco, Roden, Langan, Bear, Link, Hill, Royle, Files, Tem, Lane, among others, well I’m delighted (and floored!) to see my name on that list w/ talent of that caliber. In my book, Kiernan, Hand, and Cisco, as well as Barron himself, (along w/ Tom Ligotti) are the finest writers working in the field.

Thanks, Laird.

Laird’s blog is here:

http://imago1.livejournal.com/