Not a Speck of Light

Named One of the Best Horror Books of the Year by The New York Times, Esquire, NPR, and Paste!

It's about to get very dark.

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

Bring a flashlight and a book of matches.

Where we're going, there's not a speck of light.

"Not a Speck of Light represents the continued evolution of a singular voice that has helped define 21st century horror and weird fiction. Laird Barron's ecstatic and apocalyptic visions are as frightening and enthralling as they are vital. Head north to a wilderness filled with Serial killers and cults and elder gods, oh my."

--Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

"Our most fearless chronicler of the monsters who lurk in that vast, sometimes beautiful terrain where family wounds press up against psychic, cosmic damage. Laird Barron has been one of my favorite short-story writers for a very long time, and if I could cast a spell instead of writing a blurb, it would be to make you buy his books."

--Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize nominated author

The stories in Laird Barron's stunning new collection range from the vastness of Alaska to the intimacy of a family's vacation cottage. In these tales, characters are shunted from one world to another, sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally. At the messy border where the human meets the inhuman, monsters and heroes meet around signposts marked love, family, and obsession. Confronted by extinction personal and planetary, Barron's women, men, and dogs grit their teeth, square their stance, and prepare for a common, though not unworthy, doom. There may be no trace of light within these pages, but they burn nonetheless with a fierce, fiery darkness.
--John Langan, author of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

Laird Barron is an expat Alaskan. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

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