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Laird Barron

Book Review: Worse Angels by Laird Barron

By Gabino Iglesias

June 10, 2020

In the third Isaiah Coleridge novel from Laird Barron, Isaiah finds himself entangled with a rich and powerful cult while looking into a mysterious death and a shady real-estate deal worth billions.  There’s a secret to creating something great and then consistently making it even better, and Laird Barron possesses that arcane knowledge. With Worse…

Review: Blood Standard by Laird Barron

By Thomas Pluck

May 29, 2018

Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with Blood Standard, a novel set in the underbelly of Upstate New York that’s as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw. I’m not a detective, I’m merely a man with less exacting scruples than most. Where do I sign up? Crime and horror…

13 Books to Read If You Loved Stranger Things

By Thomas Pluck

September 6, 2016

Great news! They’ve confirmed a Season 2 of Stranger Things. I loved the first season of the Netflix original series. Only eight episodes long, but it never feels rushed. The Duffer Brothers did a great job giving us characters we care about and a monster that truly terrified me. It's set in the early '80s…

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