The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron’s stories have garnered critical acclaim and have 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.
Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including “Blackwood’s Baby,” “The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,” and “The Men from Porlock,” The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
Cover Art and design by Claudia Noble
Interior layout and design by Amy Popovich
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 Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, September 2013
Distributed by Night Shade Books
An Imprint of Start Publishing LLC
New York, New York
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eISBN: 978-1-59780-468-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-467-7
Copyright 2013 by Laird Barron
Introduction © 2013 by Norman Partridge
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
Night Shade Books
An Imprint of Start Publishing LLC
New York, New York
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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“Blackwood’s Baby,” first published in Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers, Harper Voyager, 2011.
“The Redfield Girls,” first published in Haunted Legends, edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas, Tor, 2010.
“Hand of Glory,” first published in The Book of Cthulhu II, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, Night Shade Books, 2012.
“The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,” first published in Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2011.
“The Siphon,” first published in Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2011.
“Jaws of Saturn” is original to this volume.
“Vastation,” first published in Cthulhu’s Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, DAW Books, 2010.
“The Men from Porlock,” first published in The Book of Cthulhu, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, Night Shade Books, 2011.
“More Dark,” first published in The Revelator, edited by Matthew Cheney and Eric Schaller, 2012.
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