Laird Barron's Blog, page 17

A Little Brown Book of Burials has shipped. Unfortunately, three typographical errors were introduced during layout/printing after I signed off on the galley version. The problem came to my attention when the author copies arrived yesterday.

1. Table of contents does not align with actual page numbers

2. “D T” ending is missing (about the last half page)

3. Wrong header on last page of book

I apologize to my readers for this situation. Fixing it is beyond my control, however I’m contemplating an errata entry (with the missing last page) here on my author site. I’ll have more to say after I’ve had time to process this more thoroughly. All I can say at the moment is, I’m sorry.

image via Justin Steele

Daniel Mills recently appeared on the Outer Dark podcast for an interview with Scott Nicolay. Daniel is an accomplished author who delves into the classical weird such as Hawthorne and MR James, but with a contemporary sensibility. It’s an interesting discussion that covers a lot of ground from Daniel’s influences to his reading recommendations.

The Lord Came at Twilight

I’ll be on the Lovecraft Ezine Show, Friday the 18th at 9pm Eastern with Chris Morey of Dark Regions Press. We’ll be chatting about DRP’s big upcoming anthology, I Am The Abyss. Meanwhile, there’s a raffle in progress. Prizes include a PDF of my story “The Beatification of Custer Poe” and signed copies of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and The Croning. Check the link for details.

image via Dark Regions Press

Autumn Cthulhu is soon to be published by Lovecraft Ezine Press, Mike Davis editor. “Andy Kaufman Creeping through the Trees” features Jessica Mace nemesis Julie Vellum back in the hazy Alaska days during the autumn of ’98.

Here’s the official ToC (I read the Langan novella already and it’s one of his best)

Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees, Laird Barron

There is a Bear in the Woods, Nadia Bulkin

Anchor, John Langan

The Stiles of Palemarsh, Richard Gavin

The Night is a Sea, Scott Thomas

In the Spaces Where You Once Lived, Damien Angelica Walters

Trick or the Other Thing, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Grave Goods, Gemma Files

After the Fall, Jeffrey Thomas

A Shadow Passing, Daniel Mills

Lavinia in Autumn, Ann K. Schwader

Memories of the Fall, Pete Rawlik

The Smoke Lodge, Michael Griffin

The End of the Season, Trent Kollodge

The Black Azalea, Wendy Wagner

Cul-De-Sac Virus, Evan Dicken

promo art via Dave Felton

Far Fetched Fables has recorded a performance of Blood & Stardust, a story of mine that originally appeared in The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, edited by John Joseph Adams.

Want to see something astounding? Here’s something astounding.

A fun and irreverent interview with the mighty anthologist, Ellen Datlow.

Horror is a complex realization of disorder; it is related to disgust. Terror is a visceral reaction to a threat; it is related to violence, especially the fight or flight defense mechanism.

Yes, Virginia, Horror and Terror can and do overlap.

From an interview in the Paris Review:

INTERVIEWER

Do you have a Roth reader in mind when you write?

ROTH

No. I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, “How he is going to hate this!” That can be just the encouragement I need.

A few weeks ago I had a long phone conversation with Jon Padgett, administrator and curator in chief of  Thomas Ligotti Online. Some of that conversation made it into a subsequent interview Jon conducted with me via email. A lot didn’t. He’s a gracious man, and I appreciate the invitation to talk about my relation to Ligotti’s work, the genesis of More Dark, and writing in general. The Internal Vista is Infinite is live at TLO.

I’d be remiss not to point readers toward a fascinating story that Jon published at the Lovecraft Ezine called The Secret of Ventriloquism. Do you want to learn greater ventriloquism? The answer is no, no you do not.