This page of the bibliography covers single-author books by Laird Barron.

Last update: 09 JULY 2020.

PUBLISHED BOOKS (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

• The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (2007)

• Occultation and Other Stories (2010)

• The Light is the Darkness (2011)

• The Croning (2012)

• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2013)

• A Little Brown Book of Burials (2015)

• Hallucigenia (2015)

• X's For Eyes (2015)

• Man With No Name (2016)

• The Occultation (Limited Edition) (2016)

• Swift to Chase (2016)

• OKULTACE a jiné POVÍDKY (2016)

• X Come Occhi (2017)

• Ta nádherná věc, jež na nás všechny čeká (2017)

• Blood Standard (2018)

• Black Mountain (2019)

• Krev je můj chleba (2019)

• Worse Angels (2020)

UNPUBLISHED BOOKS (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

• All The Devils Are Here (?)

• Cult of the Bird Eaters (?)

PUBLISHED BOOKS

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

280 pages (HC). 
249 pages (ebook). 
256 pages (TPB).

Stories included:

• "Hour of the Cyclops" (limited HC and regular TPB only)

• "Old Virginia"

• "Shiva, Open Your Eye"

• "Procession of the Black Sloth"

• "Bulldozer"

• "Proboscis"

• Hallucigenia

• "Parallax"

• "The Royal Zoo is Closed"

• The Imago Sequence

• Cover illustration by Eleni Tsami.

• The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (2008, collection).

• It was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award (2008, collection).

• It was a finalist for the William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award (2008).

• It placed 15th in the 2008 Locus Awards in the collection category.

• It won the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for the best collection.

• The story "Hour of the Cyclops"was included in the limited hard cover release of The Imago Sequence and Other Stories but not in subsequent hard cover editions, or the electronic edition. It IS included in the trade paperback edition, but it is NOT listed on the copyright page or the table of contents.

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Occultation and Other Stories

300 pages (HC). 
257 pages (ebook). 
256 pages (TPB).

Stories included:

• "The Forest"

• "Occultation"

• "The Lagerstätte"

• Mysterium Tremendum

• "Catch Hell"

• "Strappado"

• The Broadsword

• "--30--"

• "Six Six Six"

• Cover art by Matthew Jaffe.

• The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (2011, Collection).

• It placed 18th in the 2011 Locus Awards in the Collection category.

• It won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection.

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The Light is the Darkness

182 pages (HC)
216 pages (TPB)

Stories included:

• The Light is the Darkness

• Cover and interior art by David Ho.

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The Croning

245 pages (HC)
320 pages (TPB)
352 pages (El Rito HC)

Stories included:

• The Croning

• The Croning cover art by Cody Tilson.

• El Rito translated by Rubén Martin.

• El Rito cover art by [?].

• La cerimonia translated by Andrea Bonazzi.

• La cerimonia cover art by Ivo Torello.

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

280 pages (HC, ebook)
304 pages (TPB)

Stories included:

• "Blackwood's Baby"

• "The Redfield Girls"

• Hand of Glory

• "The Carrion Gods in the Heaven"

• "The Siphon"

• "Jaws of Saturn"

• "Vastation"

• The Men From Porlock

• "More Dark"

• Cover art by Claudia Noble.

• The collection won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for best collection.

• It placed 8th in the 2014 Locus Awards in the collection category.

• It was nominated for the 2014 World Fantasy Award in the collection category.

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A Little Brown Book of Burials

123 pages (HC)

Stories included:

• "Gamma"

• "D T"

• Man With No Name

• "Babes in the Wilderness" (essay)

• Cover art by [?]

• There is an errata for the book on Laird Barron's Official Site.

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Hallucigenia

271 pages (TPB)
278 pages (ebook)

Stories included:

• Hallucigenia

• "Die Prozession des schwarzen Faultiers" ("Procession of the Black Sloth")

• "Strappado"

• Mysterium Tremendum

• Translation by Jakob Schmidt.

• Cover art by [?]

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X's for Eyes

98 pages

Stories included:

• X's For Eyes

• Cover art by Matthew Revert.

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Man With No Name

106 pages

Stories included:

• Man With No Name

• "Blood and Stardust"

• Cover art by Robert Grom.

• The audiobook is unabridged and narrated by Feodor Chin. It does not include "Blood and Stardust".

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ThE OCCULTATION

[?] pages

Stories included:

• "The Occultation"

• Cover art by [?].

• Published as an exclusive chapbook as part of the Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter (funded in April 2015).

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SWIFT TO CHASE

296 pages

Cover by Chuck Killorn.

Introduction by Paul Tremblay

Stories included:

• "Screaming Elk, MT"

• "LD50"

• "Termination Dust"

• "Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees"

• "Ardor"

• "the worms crawl in,"

• (Little Miss) Queen of Darkness

• "Ears Prick Up"

• "Slave Arm"

• "Black Dog"

• "Frontier Death Song"

• Tomahawk Park Survivors Raffle

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