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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 of Not a Speck of Light.
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.
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
"good night, sleep tight", is another collection of short stories but this time by the masterful Brian Evenson. What horrors can be conjured from a book? It's simply a set of pages bound by glue and set on your bedside table, right? Wrong. Evenson evokes such a visceral response in me when I read his work that I quite literally need to break and digest what I've just consumed. He is beyond whatever margins the word *talented* can describe and his work is both paradoxically unique and integral to mainstream horror.
“Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all.”
From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches a world where our all-too-real feelings of isolation and ecological dread take on an otherworldly tinge.
In Good Night, Sleep Tight, Brian Evenson deftly weaves ethical dilemmas, maternal warmth, and echoes…
