Not a Speck of Light: Stories
Laird Barron
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.
This one is an oof. Took me way too long to figure it out, and not in a clever way. The prose is gorgeous, but the whole thing is confusing.
0The Glorification of Custer Poe is by FAR my favorite story in this so far, and I've enjoyed all of them on some level so far. Amazing prose and turns of phrase one right after the other.
0Mobility: This one was WILD, but ultimately cements Barron in my mind as the king of despicable people going through Lovecraftian madness.
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0Overall entertaining and compelling collection from one of the most interesting styles of prose in horror.
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