Mysterium Tremendum & Vastation

Handed in the OCCULTATION manuscript. The original novella ended up entitled Mysterium Tremendum. It’s fairly long — 22k. Just sold a short story called “Vastation” to Darrell Schweitzer for the 2010 DAW anthology Cthulhu’s Reign. It’s actually an anti-Mythos story, but shhhh!

Stalking Through the Jungles of the Night

Centipede Press is putting forth a limited (300 copies) edition of Peter Straub’s KOKO. KOKO is one of my favorite novels and I was honored to write the afterword for this edition. It’s signed by Straub, illustrator Howie Michaels, and yours truly. I don’t know if Centipede is taking pre orders directly, but I note it’s listed on Amazon as an early 2010 release.

Starred Review for Lovecraft Unbound

PW gave Ellen Datlow’s Lovecraft Unbound a starred review. From the review:

“The 16 new and four reprint stories…all capture what Dale Bailey praises as horror master H.P. Lovecraft’s gift for depicting the universe as “inconceivably more vast, strange, and terrifying than mere human beings can possibly imagine.” Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, in “The Crevasse,” evoke this alien sensibility through an Antarctic expedition’s glimpses of an astonishingly ancient prehuman civilization preserved in the polar ice. Laird Barron’s “Catch Hell” depicts a Lovecraft-type backwoods community in the grip of a profoundly creepy occult mythology.”  –PW

Sold: Collection & Novel

I am proud to announce my agent Brendan Deneen has sold my second collection and debut novel to Jeremy Lassen at Night Shade Books. These will appear in October 2010 and summer 2011 respectively.

The collection is titled OCCULTATION and is introduced by Michael Shea.

TOC

Introduction: Michael Shea

The Forest

The Lagerstatte

 Strappado

Occultation

 Six, Six, Six

Catch Hell

 The Broadsword

 –30–

“Six, Six, Six” and –30– are orginals. Two of the stories are in the vein of Lovecraftian dark fantasy. The rest are occult and psychological horror pieces. In many ways the collection is a departure from THE IMAGO SEQUENCE. The book clocks in at about 90k, so it’s leaner than the first one.

The novel is called THE CRONING. It’s kind of like ON GOLDEN POND, if Henry and Jane Fonda were preoccupied with black magic, machetes, and cosmic horrors. This one is still underway with an estimated delivery date of July 2010.

Clarkesworld Interview

For those who haven’t seen this and may be interested, Jeff VanderMeer conducted an interview with me last year.

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barron_interview/

The Imago Sequence & Other Stories

My debut collection has been reprinted as a trade paperback. Now available at Night Shade Books.

 

The Imago Sequence & Other Stories

My New Home

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