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  • By: Laird Barron
  • Narrated by: David Drummond
  • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)
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Summary

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte."

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Who Employs These People?!

A possibly interesting collection rather ruined by the performance of the reader. A weird, overly enunciated style, reminiscent of a continuity announcer on a local TV station. Not for me, but each to their own.

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Cosmic Horror for a New Century

Having done a few of this author's collections already I realised I had not seen this one, and I was not disappointed. Occultation cements Laird Barron as one of the eminent 21st century writers of cosmic horror, and fans of the strange and mysterious will certainly enjoy it. Also, some of the stories in other collections like ‘The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All' now make more sense.
Also the narrator is very good, can't agree with some of the other reviews which say he's awful, but I suppose that is just personal preference.

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Rubbish!

Sorry for appearing as a philistine but I didn't get this book at all! I've not read anything like it & I won't again!

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