My latest collection, Swift to Chase, is available for pre-order from JournalStone. Ordering options for Amazon and other retailers will follow soon. Thanks to the editors who originally published the various stories (it contains one long original), Chris Payne and co. at JournalStone for helping put this together, Paul Tremblay for the introduction, and Chuck Killorin for the cover art.

This will hit the street the first week of October 2016.

art by Chuck Killorin

Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and Giallo-fueled nightmare vistas.

All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; Following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor’s slice beyond our own.

Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron’s harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.