![]() ![]() ![]() The dark atmosphere that envelops the book as a whole hits you the minute you open to the first story and then never lets up. The visual imagery of these stories is also striking there are some scenes that are still playing in my head right now as I'm writing this post, especially from "Strappado," a story whose ramifications hit me like a sledge hammer. He's also one of the few horror writers in my experience who writes his stories with prose to equal pretty much any literary author, and he does not rely on cheap thrills, hack-em/slash-em gratuitous gore or gross shockers to strike a genuine chord of fear that continues to resonate long after the last page has been read. He is probably (at least, as far as those I have read) the only author who can put together a compilation of his stories and keep me totally involved, off balance and maximally creeped out through the entire book without any exceptions. I do believe I've found a new favorite contemporary horror writer in Laird Barron. " The brain is a camera, and once it sees what it sees there's no taking it back." ![]()
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