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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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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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Cosmic Horror • Vivid Imagery • Excellent Narration • Multilayered Plots • Thought-provoking Endings • Perfect Pacing

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If you enjoy horror and creativity, get everything that these two people have touched.

I have no regrets.

Laird Barron and Ray Porter are truly awesome.

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This book was disturbing, gut-wrenching, and outright psychotic from the first to last word. Every time I hit play it was as though I was walking to see another car crash on the side of the road. I couldn't put it down, and I can't seem to forget. I recommend it to everyone who wants a different kind of experience with their dark side. I loved The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.

I can't believe I put it down

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so this is true horror. amazing. I loved these stories. many of them were mind-blowing

Stunningly Dark, Fantastical, Ascendent Horror

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I love Barren’s work and he will no doubt go down in history as one of literature’s masters of the genre alongside Poe, Jackson , King, Straub, Evenson, and Files.

True horror for horror lovers

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it was really good set of stories! but man... they kept using lighted when lit would have been a much better fit. that's all really.

lighted!? why not lit?!

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