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Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, or horror noir and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York. Early life Barron spent his early years in Alaska. He has described his youth as exceedingly harsh because his family was poor and lived in isolated areas. Career In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times during the early 1990s, and worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea. He retired from racing and moved to Washington in 1994. He became active on the poetry scene, publishing with a number of online journals and eventually serving as the managing editor of the Melic Review. His professional writing debut occurred in 2001 when Gordon Van Gelder published Shiva, Open Your Eye in the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Barron's debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was published in 2007 by Night Shade Books. He has stated his affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told." In addition to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Barron's work has been featured in SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards. He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories. "Mysterium Tremendum" won a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. He is also a 2009 nominee for his novelette "Catch Hell" Other award nominations include the Crawford Award, Sturgeon Award, International Horror Guild Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award. His second novel, The Croning, was published in 2012 by Night Shade Books. His next three novels were published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Bibliography Novels The Light is the Darkness, Bloodletting Press 2011 The Croning, Night Shade Books 2012 Blood Standard, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018 Black Mountain, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019 Worse Angels, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020 Novellas X's For Eyes, JournalStone 2015 Man With No Name: A Nanashi Novella, JournalStone 2016 The Wind Began To Howl: An Isaiah Coleridge Story, Bad Hand Books 2023 Collections The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, Night Shade Books 2007; Trade paperback 2009 Occultation, Night Shade Books 2010 Shirley Jackson Award. Best Collection. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Night Shade Books 2013 A Little Brown Book of Burials, Borderlands Press 2015 Swift to Chase, JournalStone 2016 Not a Speck of Light: Stories, Bad Hand Books 2024 Anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 17 St Martin's 2004 The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 18 St Martin's 2005 The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual Volume No. 2 Legion Press 2005 Trochu divné kusy 2 2006 Fantastyka Number 4 2006 The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 19 St. Martin's 2006 Horror: Best of 2005 Prime 2006 Fantasy: Best of 2005 Prime 2006 Year's Best Fantasy 6 Tachyon 2006 Inferno Tor 2007 Year's Best Fantasy 7 Tachyon 2007 The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 21 2008 Clockwork Phoenix Norilana Press 2008 Year's Best Fantasy 8 Tachyon 2008 The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy Del Rey 2008 Jack Haringa Must Die! 2008 Lovecraft Unbound Dark Horse Comics 2009 The Best Horror of the Year 1 Night Shade Books 2009 Poe Solaris 2009 Wilde Stories 2010 Lethe 2010 Haunted Legends Tor Books 2010 Cthulhu's Reign DAW Books 2010 The Best Horror of the Year 2 Night Shade Books 2010 Black Wings PS Publishing 2010 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 ed Prime 2011 The Book of Cthulhu Night Shade Books 2011 Blood & Other Cravings Tor 2011 Ghosts by Gaslight HarperCollins 2011 Supernatural Noir Dark Horse 2011 The Best Horror of the Year 3 Night Shade Books 2011 New Cthulhu Prime Books 2011 Creatures Prime Books 2011 Wilde Stories 2011 Lethe 2011 Dark Faith 2 Apex Books 2012 Heiresses of Russ Lethe 2012 Ghosts: Recent Hauntings Prime Books 2012 A Season in Carcosa Miskatonic River Press 2012 The Book of Cthulhu 2 Night Shade Books 2012 Fungi Innsmouth Free Press 2012 The Best Horror of the Year 4 Night Shade Books 2012 Horror For Good: A Charitable Anthology (Volume 1) Cutting Block Press 2012 Tales of Jack the Ripper Word Horde 2013 Suffered from the Night Lethe Press 2013 Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge Nightscape Press 2013 Shades of Blue & Gray Prime Books 2013 The Best Horror of the Year 5 Night Shade Books 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 ed Prime Books 2013 The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination 2013 Nightmare Carnival Dark Horse 2014 Fearful Symmetries Chizine Publications 2014 A Mountain Walked Centipede Press 2014 Gigantic Worlds Gigantic 2014 Lovecraft's Monsters Tachyon 2014 The Cutting Room Tachyon 2014 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013 edition Prime Books 2014 The Best Horror of the Year 6 Night Shade Books 2014 Stories "Hour of the Cyclops," Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2000 "Shiva, Open Your Eye", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2001 "Old Virginia", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2003 "Bulldozer," SCI FICTION 2004 "Parallax," SCI FICTION 2005 The Imago Sequence, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2005 "Proboscis," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2005 "The Royal Zoo is Closed," Phantom # Zero 2006 Hallucigenia, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2006 "The Forest", Inferno 2007 "Procession of the Black Sloth", The Imago Sequence & Other Stories 2007 "The Lonely Death of Agent Haringa," Kill Jack Haringa 2008 "Occultation", Clockwork Phoenix 2008 "The Lagerstätte," Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2008 "Catch Hell," Lovecraft Unbound 2009 "Strappado," Poe 2009 The Broadsword, Black Wings 2010 "Six Six Six," Occultation 2010 Mysterium Tremendum, Occultation 2010 "--30--," Occultation 2010 "Vastation," Cthulhu's Reign 2010 "The Redfield Girls," Haunted Legends 2010 "The Men from Porlock," The Book of Cthulhu (Night Shade Books) 2011 "The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven" Supernatural Noir 2011 "The Siphon," Blood & Other Cravings 2011 "Blackwood's Baby", Ghosts by Gaslight 2011 "a strange form of life" Dark Faith 2 2012 "More Dark" The Revelator 2012 "Frontier Death Song", Nightmare Magazine 2012 Hand of Glory The Book of Cthulhu 2 2012 "D T," A Season in Carcosa 2012 "Gamma," Fungi 2012 "The Beatification of Custer Poe" Shades of Blue & Gray 2013 "Ardor" Suffered from the Night 2013 ".... 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