
You can find Gotcha in The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Occultation in Occultation, and The Bedroom Light in The Drowned Life, by Ray Bradbury, Laird Barron, and Jeffrey Ford, respectively. Occultation is the second collection by Laird Barron, a native of Alaska who. I hope I’ve convinced you to read these three tales. I won’t even glance at the other wonders collected in Occultation. An absolute must-read for any fan of fantastic, strange or horrific short fiction. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation 's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte." Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect. I think only Laird Barron could convincingly create a scene in which his Protag porks Satan Himself, grows gravid with, and then delivers to our staring eyes the seething offspring of that unholy coitus. He returns with his second collection, Occultation.

His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and 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. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. Laird Barron, an expat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Swift to Chase and Blood Standard.

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.
