Book description
One of Paste Magazine's "Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2024"
It’s about to get very dark.
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.
Bring a flashlight…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Not a Speck of Light as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Not a Speck of Light is the fifth collection of short stories by Laird Barron and contains tales in his Old Leech mythos as well as in his Antiquity universe. Simply put, he's the preeminent horror short fiction author of our times. This collection is stunning in its dark imagery and oozes horror from its pores. I generally enjoy psychological horror more than gore and Barron excels at the gentle dance between the two. If you enjoy shorter reads with eldritch gods, entities from the ichor of nightmares, and characters who are at battle with themselves, you'll want a copy…
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