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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
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- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Just
- 25-07-21
Really Rather Excellent
Took a chance on this collection of short stories and I was not disappointed. The writing is superb and the narration is excellent, I think I'll certainly try more by this author in future.
Most of the stories are excellent, and for the very few which do not measure up, they in no way spoil the strength of this collection at all.
If you like brilliant writing and creepy stories, then this is a must.
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- W.M.
- 27-09-21
The Real Deal
This is, as my review title proclaims, the real deal. Laird Barron’s writing is horrific in the way that it will linger in your brain, festering away, half-forgotten. Oh, you WISH you could forget.
Wonderful stuff. Don’t miss a word.
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- russ
- 15-11-19
brilliant! just read it, well curated spooky bunch
brilliant! just read it, well curated spooky bunch of stories. very well narrated, gripping, great prose and storylines.
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- Mr T E Trewick
- 08-06-24
Rich and varied storytelling
The narration is excellent. The characters from each story are well crafted. I really liked his writing style.
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- a.k.
- 10-09-19
Soon becomming one of my favourite authors
Wonderful collection of stories in the classic Barron mold of creepiness at the corners of our world. Special mention to the amazing narration by Ray Porter. There is one story in here that reminded me so much of the Bobiverse books and I know now that's partly due to the narrator being the same! That story in particular shows Barron has a macabre sense of humour not seen in most of his works. It's an absolutely fantastic telling of a timeless being traveling back and forth in time, creating and destroying worlds until even this becomes tiring.
I will definitely look for more books by both the author and the narrator.
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- Heisenberg
- 08-02-18
Lyrical writing and beautiful narration
An interesting collection of short stories, written in beautiful, lyrical prose, and also wonderfully narrated. However, I found the stories themselves slightly hit and miss. Some were very good (Redfield Girls and Blackwood's baby) and others not so. With several, I finished the story and was left thinking "oh, is that it." I will listen to more from the author, but, having read other, very positive reviews for this title, had hoped for something better here.
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- Nerdycat
- 20-01-24
Dreary and Repetitive
The first two stories aren`t too bad but then you realise all the others have the same dreary Lovecraftian plot with slightly different characters...
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