The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories

About this book

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 Barrons stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous years 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 Blackwoods 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. Skyhorse Publishing under our Night Shade and Talos imprints is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera time travel hard SF alien invasion near-future dystopia) fantasy (grimdark sword and sorcery contemporary urban fantasy steampunk alternative history) and horror (zombies vampires and the occult and supernatural) and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller a national bestseller or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.