num_pages: 245
description: 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. Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.Introduction by Michael SheaThe ForestOccultationThe LagerstatteMysterium Tremendum (original to this collection)Catch HellStrappadoThe Broadsword--30-- (original to this collection)
language: English
title: Occultation and Other Stories
publisher: Night Shade