Laird Barron writes weird. Barron is a good writer, but the stories contained in his collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, are sometimes hard to figure. You’ll need a dictionary, good map skills, and a working knowledge of mythology, world religions, philosophy, horror fiction, and crime pulps to make heads or tails of these […]
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Filed Under: Book Review, Crime Fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Short Story Collection / Single Author, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: book review, Crime fiction, Existence, Hardboiled crime, Henchmen, horror, Imago Sequence, James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Laird Barron, Philosophy, Raymond Chandler, Religion, Tough guys