At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Somers tagged five great under-the-radar reads of 2014, including:The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, by Laird BarronRead about the other books on the list.
Laird Barron writes beautiful, sophisticated prose that pulls you in with gorgeous imagery and easy verisimilitude, then scares the pants off of you. His characters and settings are a break from the usual urban sophisticates of literature and the typical suburban mediocrities of most horror, and the writing is so strong you often forget you’re reading horror at all—at least right up until you read something that makes you put this collection of short stories in your freezer and build a blanket tent so you can sit up all night hiding in it with a flashlight, telling yourself you didn’t hear anything.
--Marshal Zeringue
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