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Laird Barron

Barron, Laird Samuel

March 5, 1970 (age 56)

Birth place: Palmer, Alaska, USA

81 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
July 2000 |3 Short Fiction Hour of the Cyclops Three-Lobed Burning Eye, July 2000
September 2001 146 Short Fiction Shiva, Open Your Eye The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2001
November 2001 34|34.07 Review Shiva, Open Your Eye Science Fiction Chronicle, #218 November 2001
February 2003 7 Short Fiction Old Virginia The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2003
August 2004 Short Fiction Bulldozer Sci Fiction, August 25, 2004
February 2005 116 Short Fiction Proboscis The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2005
May 2005 61 Short Fiction The Imago Sequence The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005
September 2005 Short Fiction Parallax Sci Fiction, September 7, 2005
June 2006 59 Short Fiction Hallucigenia The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2006
September 2006 51 Short Fiction The Royal Zoo Is Closed Phantom Magazine, #0, Fall 2006
2007 35 Review The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Dead Reckonings, Fall 2007
May 2007 58 Essay Twenty-First Century Ghosts Locus, #556 May 2007
August 2007 71 Review The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Locus, #559 August 2007
November 2007 Review The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Strange Horizons, 12 November 2007
December 2007 Review The Imago Sequence Realms of Fantasy, December 2007
March 2008 Review The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Strange Horizons, 17 March 2008
June 2008 Interview The Laird Barron Sequence: Defining the Undefinable Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2008
August 2010 28 Review Occultation Locus, #595 August 2010
October 2011 |1 Essay Intro (Phantasmagorium, Issue 1) Phantasmagorium, Issue 1, October 2011
October 2011 Editor Phantasmagorium, Issue 1, October 2011 Phantasmagorium, Issue 1, October 2011
2012 20 Interview Laird Barron: 'I'm a Magnet to Steel' Weird Tales, Winter 2012
January 2012 Editor Phantasmagorium, January 2012 Phantasmagorium, January 2012
May 2012 23 Review The Croning Locus, #616 May 2012
August 2012 Review The Croning Tales to Terrify, No 34
October 2012 |10 Interview Author Spotlight: Laird Barron Nightmare Magazine, October 2012
October 2012 |2 Short Fiction Frontier Death Song Nightmare Magazine, October 2012
October 2012 Review The Croning Strange Horizons, 15 October 2012
October 2012 Review The Light Is the Darkness Tales to Terrify, No 41
December 2012 46 Review The Croning Cemetery Dance, #68, 2012
May 2013 51 Review The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Locus, #628 May 2013
June 2013 |10 Interview Author Spotlight: Laird Barron Nightmare Magazine, June 2013
July 2013 25 Interview There Is Always Something Worse: A Conversation with Laird Barron Shock Totem 7: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted
August 2013 Short Fiction Nemesis Primeval: A Journal of the Uncanny, Issue 1
November 2013 Review The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories Tales to Terrify, No 99
December 2013 |6 Essay Babes in the Wilderness Nightmare Magazine, December 2013
February 2014 36 Review The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Locus, #637 February 2014
April 2014 |11 Essay Michael Shea: No Form Is Eternal Lightspeed, April 2014
April 2014 53 Essay Shine On, Dark Star Locus, #639 April 2014
September 2014 21 Review Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1 Locus, #644 September 2014
November 2014 30 Short Fiction (Little Miss) Queen of Darkness Dark Discoveries #29, Fall 2014
2015 317 Essay Black Light Gods & Psychedelic Thunder The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2015
2015 41 Review Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One Vector 280 Summer
January 2015 |2 Short Fiction Ears Prick Up SQ Mag, Edition 18
January 2015 40 Review The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Cemetery Dance, #72, 2015
September 2015 Short Fiction Blood & Stardust Far-Fetched Fables, No. 73
September 2015 27 Review Ghost Summer: Stories Locus, #656 September 2015
September 2015 27 Essay Locus Looks at Books: Divers Hands (Locus #656) Locus, #656 September 2015
September 2015 55 Review The Captive Condition Locus, #656 September 2015
October 2015 28|28.2 Review A Head Full of Ghosts Locus, #657 October 2015
October 2015 28 Essay Locus Looks at Books: Divers Hands (Locus #657) Locus, #657 October 2015
October 2015 5 Interview Master of the Weird: An Interview with Laird Barron Dark Discoveries, Fall 2015
October 2015 39 Essay The Black Barony: The Golden Age of Dread Dark Discoveries, Fall 2015
November 2015 21 Essay Locus Looks at Books (Locus #658) Locus, #658 November 2015
November 2015 21 Review Sing Me Your Scars Locus, #658 November 2015
November 2015 21 Review The Nameless Dark Locus, #658 November 2015
December 2015 21 Review Kissing Carrion Locus, #659 December 2015
December 2015 21 Essay Locus Looks at Books: Divers Hands (Locus #659) Locus, #659 December 2015
December 2015 55 Review The Worm in Every Heart Locus, #659 December 2015
January 2016 17 Essay Locus Looks at Books (Locus #660) Locus, #660 January 2016
January 2016 17 Review Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts Locus, #660 January 2016
January 2016 17 Review Skein and Bone Locus, #660 January 2016
January 2016 |9 Review X's for Eyes SQ Mag, Edition 24
February 2016 18 Essay Locus Looks at Books (Locus #661) Locus, #661 February 2016
March 2016 57 Review X's For Eyes Locus, #662 March 2016
April 2016 Essay The Black Barony: Drain Me Dark Discoveries, Spring 2016
July 2016 Essay The Black Barony: The Doomsday Reels Dark Discoveries, Summer 2016
October 2016 Essay The Black Barony: Testament Dark Discoveries, Fall 2016
November 2016 25 Review Swift to Chase Locus, #670 November 2016
2017 Essay The Black Barony: Another Word for Supernatural Is Wilderness Dark Discoveries, Winter 2017
2018 67 Short Fiction We Used Swords in the '70s The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2018
May 2018 Review Blood Standard Pseudopod, #594
May 2018 Serial Mysterium Tremendum (Part 1 of 3) Pseudopod, #594
May 2018 Serial Mysterium Tremendum (Part 2 of 3) Pseudopod, #595
May 2018 Serial Mysterium Tremendum (Part 3 of 3) Pseudopod, #596
May 2018 Review Occultation and Other Stories Pseudopod, #594
June 2019 |3 Short Fiction In a Cavern, in a Canyon Nightmare Magazine, June 2019
June 2020 |4 Short Fiction Girls Without Their Faces On Nightmare Magazine, June 2020
January 2021 |11 Short Fiction Jaws of Saturn Nightmare Magazine, January 2021
November 2021 Short Fiction American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story Pseudopod, #784
January 2022 |3 Short Fiction Uncoiling Cosmic Horror Monthly, January 2022
February 2025 Short Fiction Agate Way Reactor, February 19, 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2003 International Horror Guild Award Best Short Form Old Virginia Nominee
2004 International Horror Guild Award Best Intermediate Form Bulldozer Nominee
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Old Virginia Nominee
2005 International Horror Guild Award Best Intermediate Form Proboscis Nominee
2005 International Horror Guild Award Best Long Form The Imago Sequence Nominee
2006 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Hallucigenia Nominee
2006 International Horror Guild Award Best Long Form Hallucigenia Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Imago Sequence Nominee
2006 World Fantasy Award Best Novella The Imago Sequence Nominee
2007 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Nominee
2007 International Horror Guild Award Best Collection The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Nominee
2007 International Horror Guild Award Best Long Form Procession of the Black Sloth Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Hallucigenia Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Forest Nominee
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Winner
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Forest Nominee
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella Procession of the Black Sloth Nominee
2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The Forest Nominee
2009 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Lagerstätte Nominee
2010 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Occultation and Other Stories Nominee
2010 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Strappado Nominee
2010 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette Catch Hell Nominee
2010 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction Strappado Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Occultation and Other Stories Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette ——30—— Nominee
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Occultation and Other Stories Winner
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Redfield Girls Nominee
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette ——30—— Nominee
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Broadsword Nominee
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella Mysterium Tremendum Winner
2011 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction Six Six Six Nominee
2012 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror The Croning Nominee
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Blackwood's Baby Nominee
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Men from Porlock Nominee
2013 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories Winner
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Frontier Death Song Nominee
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Hand of Glory Nominee
2013 World Fantasy Award Best Novella Hand of Glory Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Jaws of Saturn Nominee
2014 World Fantasy Award Best Collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories Nominee
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume One Nominee
2015 Premio Ignotus Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel El rito Finalist
2016 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Swift to Chase Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Swift to Chase Nominee
2017 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees Nominee
2024 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Not a Speck of Light Nominee
2024 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Versus Versus Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Not a Speck of Light Nominee
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