Laird Barron

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2001
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Isaiah Coleridge

1 - Blood Standard (May-2018)
2 - Black Mountain (May-2019)
3 - Worse Angels (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Occultation and Other Stories

    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 a...

  • The Imago Sequence

    The title story of this collection -- a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” -- was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in...

  • Lovecraft Unbound

    The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror mor...

  • The Best Horror of the Year

    What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nin...

  • The Croning

    Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our relight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And the...

  • The Light Is The Darkness

    Conrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a gruesome modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns s...

  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories

    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 wit...

  • Year's Best Weird Fiction

    Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric reade...

  • X's for Eyes

    Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you're child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corpo...



  • Man with No Name

    Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks to become a dreaded enforcer. His latest task? He and an entourage of expe...

  • Swift to Chase

    Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron's fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and...

  • Adam's Ladder

    The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncert...

  • Blood Standard

    Isaiah Coleridge - 1

    Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw--a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald. ...

  • Ashes and Entropy

    “The editor’s claim that the first season of True Detective was a big inspiration for this anthology is evident: Ashes and Entropy sports a finely balanced mixture of grit, crime and blood along with the irrational, occult and weird.”"Rue Mor...

  • Black Mountain

    Isaiah Coleridge - 2

    Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced When a small-time cr...

  • Worse Angels

    Isaiah Coleridge - 3

    Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions. Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S...

  • A Little Brown Book of Burials

    The eighth book in Little Book Series II is by one of the best writers of his generation—Laird Barron, and A Little Brown Book of Burials is a great intro to his work if you've never read him.Stories included in this collection:GammaMan with N...

  • Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2

    Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases ...

  • Joren Falls

    For one retiree, the past can never be packed away."Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology...



  • The Wind Began to Howl

    Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new story set after the events of Worse Angels. A seemingly benign case gradually pulls mob enforcer-turned-P.I. Isaiah Coleridge into a chilling mix of m...

Award-Winning Books by Laird Barron

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories
2013 Bram Stoker Award -- Fiction Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laird Barron has published 20 books.

Laird Barron does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wind Began to Howl, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories, was published in March 2001.

Yes. Laird Barron has 1 series.
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