“The Nineteenth Step” in THE YEAR’S BEST WEIRD FICTION, VOL 1 By BylineStrantzas on August 9, 2014May 1, 2016 When Laird Barron selected “The Nineteenth Step” for inclusion in the inaugural edition of THE YEAR’S BEST WEIRD FICTION (Undertow Publications, 2014), I was a bit surprised. Not because IContinue reading“The Nineteenth Step” in THE YEAR’S BEST WEIRD FICTION, VOL 1
THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL by Laird Barron By BylineStrantzas on October 26, 2013June 29, 2019 This is not a review. “The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All” (Nightshade Books, 2013), Laird Barron’s latest collection, is one of those books that hardly seems to need aContinue readingTHE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL by Laird Barron