The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Book description
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship.
Collected here for the first time are…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Imago Sequence and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Laird Barron may be the Robert E. Howard of modern horror and weird fiction—or its Dashiell Hammett. So hard-boiled you could break rocks with it, his prose is ferociously energetic, brutally unsettling, and consummately capable of crafting its own phantasmagoric world. If Melville was resurrected and took to writing plots for Quentin Tarantino, the result might be Laird Barron. The Imago Sequence is among his best collections, but almost any of them is equally strong.
From Paul's list on modern Lovecraftian horror.
Want books like The Imago Sequence and Other Stories?
Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Imago Sequence and Other Stories.
Browse books like The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
5 book lists we think you will like!
Interested in Lovecraftian horror, steampunk, and grimdark?
10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about Lovecraftian horror, steampunk, and grimdark.