Laird Barron Books in Order
List of books written by Laird Barron in publication order
Laird Barron is an American writer, well known for his cosmic horror and noir crime stories.
This is a list of published books written by Laird Barron in the order they were published.
This list does not include the many anthologies Laird Barron has been part of.
Contents
1. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (2007)
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories is a cosmic horror short story collection.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.14 | Amazon: 4.40 | Goodreads: 4.01 | LibraryThing: 4.01
2. Occultation and Other Stories (2010)
Occultation and Other Stories is a horror short story collection.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.10 | Amazon: 4.30 | Goodreads: 4.08 | LibraryThing: 3.91
3. The Light Is the Darkness (2011)
The Light Is the Darkness is a novel, unfortunately now out of print.
Conrad Navarro is a champion of a gruesome modern-day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns supreme while mercy leads to annihilation.
Conrad’s sister, Imogene, an FBI special agent, vanishes in Mexico while on the trail of a legendary scientist whose eugenics experiments landed him on an international most-wanted list. Imogene has left behind a sequence of bizarre clues that indicate she uncovered evidence of a Byzantine occult conspiracy against civilization itself – a threat so vast and terrible, its ultimate fruition would herald an event more inimical to all terrestrial life than mere extinction.
Now, Conrad is on the hunt for his missing sister while malign forces seek to manipulate and destroy him by turns.
4. The Croning (2012)
The Croning is a horror novel.
Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has led a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about his wife, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts. For Donald is about to stumble on the secret.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 3.91 | Amazon: 4.20 | Goodreads: 3.73 | LibraryThing: 3.80
5. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2013)
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All is a horror short story collection.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.15 | Amazon: 4.40 | Goodreads: 3.98 | LibraryThing: 4.07
6. A Little Brown Book of Burials (2015)
A Little Brown Book of Burials is a horror short story collection that seems to be out of print.
This is the eighth book in the Little Book Series II, each of which is written by a different author.
This book includes the story Man with No Name which is also available as a standalone novella.
7. X’s For Eyes (2015)
X’s For Eyes is a horror novella.
Consider also those long, cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas, or that Dad may be a supervillain, while an uncle occasionally slaughters his nephews and nieces for sport; and the space flight research division of Sword Enterprises “accidentally” sent a probe through a wormhole into outer darkness and contacted an alien god.
Now a bloodthirsty cult and an equally vicious rival firm suspect the Tooms boys know something and will spare no expense, nor innocent life, to get their claws on them. Between the machinations of the disciples of black gods and good old corporate skullduggery, it’s winding up to be a hell of a summer vacation for the lads.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 3.75 | Amazon: 4.10 | Goodreads: 3.66 | LibraryThing: 3.48
8. Swift to Chase (2016)
Swift to Chase is a horror short story collection.
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.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.11 | Amazon: 4.40 | Goodreads: 3.98 | LibraryThing: 3.95
9. Man with No Name (2016)
Man with No Name is a horror novella. It was also included in A Little Brown Book of Burials.
In his latest task, he and an entourage of expert killers are commanded to kidnap Muzaki, a retired world-renowned wrestler under protection of the rival Dragon Syndicate.
It should be business as usual, except that Muzaki possesses a terrifying secret. A secret that will spawn a no-holds barred gang war and send Nanashi on a personal odyssey into immortal darkness.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 3.77 | Amazon: 4.20 | Goodreads: 3.64 | LibraryThing: 3.46
10. Blood Standard (2018)
Blood Standard is the first novel in the Isaiah Coleridge crime series.
Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without gunshots or explosions. Except when a teenage girl disappears, Isaiah isn’t one to let that slip by. And delving into the underworld to track this missing girl will get him exactly the kind of notice he was warned to avoid.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.09 | Amazon: 4.40 | Goodreads: 3.98 | LibraryThing: 3.89
11. Black Mountain (2019)
Black Mountain is the second novel in the Isaiah Coleridge crime series.
When a small-time criminal turns up dead in the Ashokan reservoir, the local Mafia hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the matter. The Mob likes crime, but only the crime it controls…and as it turns out, Lee is the second independent contractor to meet a bad end on the business side of a serrated knife. One such death can be overlooked. Two makes a man wonder.
Coleridge finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined, in a labyrinthine case spanning decades. At the center are an heiress moonlighting as a cabaret dancer, a powerful corporation with high-placed connections, and a serial killer who may have been honing his skills since the Vietnam War.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.06 | Amazon: 4.40 | Goodreads: 3.98 | LibraryThing: 3.81
12. Worse Angels (2020)
Worse Angels is the third novel in the Isaiah Coleridge crime series. This one also sees some supernatural elements coming in.
Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon/U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first. In his final days as a free man, he hires Isaiah Coleridge to tie up a loose end: the suspicious death of his nephew four years earlier. At the time police declared it an accident, and Adeyemi isn’t sure it wasn’t, but one final look may bring his sister peace.
So it is that Coleridge and his investigative partner, Lionel Robard, find themselves in the upper reaches of New York State, in a tiny town that is home to outsized secrets and an unnerving cabal of locals who are protecting them. At the epicenter of it all is the site of a stalled supercollider project, an immense subterranean construction that may have an even deeper, more insidious purpose.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.42 | Amazon: 4.50 | Goodreads: 4.18 | LibraryThing: 4.57
13. The Wind Began to Howl (2023)
The Wind Began to Howl is an Isaiah Coleridge story.
This time, Coleridge’s dark journey forces him to confront a brutal truth: For some who try to escape the past, there is no way out.
Average Star Ratings out of 5
Average: 4.52 | Amazon: 4.50 | Goodreads: 4.40 | LibraryThing: 4.67
First published: 15 January 2023 | Updated: 12 September 2023
