[bksvol-discuss] Just Started Scanning
- From: "Scott Blanks" <captaincynic3@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:39:13 -0700
Occultation
Laird Barron
If you're a fan of Lovecraft's work, with dashes of Poe and Thomas Ligotti
mixed in, you'll dig this collection.
"Writing with a poet's eye for detail and a folklorist's understanding of
mythos, Barron lives up to his reputation for elegant, subtle, and
nightmare-inducing tales with a Lovecraftian edge in his second short story
collection (after 2007's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories), which includes
six reprints and three original stories. In 'The Lagerstatte,' a woman who
cannot come to terms with her husband's loss clings to an occult artifact said
to reunite lovers whom death has separated. A guerrilla art exhibit turns
murderous in the taut and bloody 'Strappado.' A mysterious guidebook leads four
men on a terrifying camping trip in 'Mysterium Tremendum.' Heartbreaking,
hilarious, sophisticated, and gory, these stories will thrill, trouble, and
haunt.
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