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Overview

Featuring an Introduction by Michael Shea, this new collection from multiple award-winning author horror Laird Barron features the following stories: The Forest, Occultation, The Lagerstatte, Mysterium Tremendum (original to this collection), Catch Hell, Strappado, and The Broadsword.

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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 Lagerstätte,” 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 Barron's fans and have newcomers scrambling to search for his other work. (June)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597801928
  • Publisher: Night Shade Books
  • Publication date: 5/28/2010
  • Pages: 245
  • Sales rank: 844,603
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Horrible language

    Received on Free Friday, but not worth keeping due to excessive bad language. I would like to give zero stars, but one is required.

    46 out of 94 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 8, 2011

    Highly Recommended!

    Horror diehards ave reason to celebrate.

    Laird Barron does not write "happily ever after." If you are looking for pretty stories with happy endings, or even creepy stories with happy endings, look elsewhere, because there's nothing pretty nor happy in Laird Barron's Occultation, his second collection of dark fiction following the success of his first, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories.

    That Barron does not write "happily ever after" is not to say that Occultation is lacking in heroes and heroines, fools and apostates, prodigal sons and beckoning fair ones. On the contrary, the reader will find these archetypes in each of the stories in this collection, stories rich in allegorical themes that engage all the senses -- sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing, and emotion -- only with a bleak and horrifying twist. Barron's story-telling in Occultation grabs the reader by the back of the neck and forces him to look at this, reminding the reader that reality is not always pretty, even when reality is couched in fantasy.

    Bad things happen to good people, average people, and oblivious people -- especially oblivious people.

    The irony here is that Barron sets up and executes these Chthonic revelations with such graceful and seductive elocution that the reader goes willingly to his "readerly" fate, every bit as willingly as Barron's protagonists go not-so-gently into that endless night. This said, the reader can choose to ride safely over the surface of each tale and sigh afterward that the protagonist's fate was not hers, or she can choose to dive into deeper waters where hidden formulae found in the Gnostic art of Gematria informs her of metaphysical secrets, and ancient rituals performed in an upside-down looking-glass world reveal psycho-spiritual insight. The reader has a choice in Occultation: read for entertainment, or read for information. Or read for both. There is mystery aplenty to be found in either venture.

    Occultation is all that, the art of legerdemain, as was experienced in The Imago Sequence. But where The Imago Sequence presented with lone protagonists unwittingly encountering and sometimes surviving a hostile universe, we find in Barron's Occultation a "progression" of interrelated stories, in which his main characters encounter adversity while involved in significant relationships. In fact, it is sometimes because of the significant relationship that the protagonist meets his/her doom. We've gone from Imago, a primitive and idealized chrysalis of the primary object, i.e., assimilation of the parental figure, to Occultation, the act of combining various but ambiguous dynamics to produce a specific effect in relationships, i.e., accommodation and compromise.

    A must-read for Lovecraft fans!

    36 out of 52 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Stranger

    I hate this bookv
    VEry bad language

    9 out of 32 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Occultation

    I loved how the author used colorful words to descibe what was going on.

    5 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Horror selection on nook free friday!

    Loving that the nook free friday book is a horror. I heard it's a good one^_~ Digging into it this weekend

    2 out of 20 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2012

    What the Heck?

    I had to Force myself to make it through the first short story.... It did not hold my interest therefore made absolutely no sense!! Just happy I got this one on Friday Freebe :(

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    Not going to finish read

    Read the first two stories and had to stop. The review for free friday compared this author to lovecraft, king and koontz. But after reading te first two stories I have to say this author cime now where near there level of intensity and craft. I was disappointed and not even interested enough to read the remaining stories. I found the first short draged and the ending left me feeling let down, it was either too esoteric or not enough, I'm not sure. The second short was just bad, stutter shot slice of cliche bmovie horror.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    Great!

    Wonderfully written...inventive, gritty, and real!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Myy My book

    Laura books

    1 out of 29 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2012

    Awful!

    Glad it was free. I read most anything, but this goes to the delete bin without finishing.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2012

    Devoured

    I am very pleased to have discovered this author. I completely devoured this book in a few short days. The author's use of words is amazing. I can see the similarities to Lovecraft. Barron's stories also remind me of Brian McNaughton. I love the interlacing storylines and characters. Barron seems to enjoy letting the reader come to their own endings & meanings. I cannot wait to read more from this author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2012

    WRF WTF

    This book was/is not worth one star let alone any. I couldnt wvn get passed the firat 3 pages!!!!!!!!!?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2012

    Not Worth The Free Price or A Rating

    Was so glad I had not paid for this one! Hope I am able to leave no stars to reflect on ratings and lower it. But if there has to be one star just know I did not want to give it that high of a rating!

    NOTE: Had to give one star in order to post!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2012

    Waste of time

    Not even going to finish it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2012

    Not Recommended Not recommended!!

    I kept waiting for this wierd story to make sense---Didn't happen!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 20, 2012

    Crude and Pointless

    The language in this book is most crude and adds absolutely nothing to the story telling. The sexual content also is absolutely crude and pointless. If it was necessary or added something logical to the stories I could understand it, but it is pointless and just for shock factor. Deleted from my library.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 20, 2012

    No room for imagination

    Too much detail. Leaves not much room for imagination. Dry and takes to long to get to the point.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    Suckish!!!!

    Stupid book

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    For people that want to give no stars to a book...

    Reverse the stars. That way, five colored stars is actually zero, four is one, three is two, two is three, and one is four. Rating it out of four stars is fine, right? Of course, you don't have to...just a suggestion.

    0 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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