Author guide
Laird Barron Books in Order
Laird Barron is an American author and poet whose work spans cosmic and psychological horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and hardboiled crime. Raised in Alaska, he is known for his story collections, novels, novellas, and the Isaiah Coleridge crime series.
Laird Barron's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Best introduction to Barron's signature cosmic-horror and weird-fiction short stories.
Blood Standard
Best entry point to the Isaiah Coleridge crime series.
Read in order
Books by series
novel-series · ongoing
Isaiah Coleridge
A hardboiled crime series following Isaiah Coleridge, an Alaska-born former mob enforcer living in upstate New York.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (5)
Short fiction (5)
- The Imago Sequence and Other StoriesAmazon ↗
short-story-collection · 2007
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Occultation and Other StoriesAmazon ↗short-story-collection · 2010
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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us AllAmazon ↗short-story-collection · 2013
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Swift to ChaseAmazon ↗short-story-collection · 2016
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Not a Speck of Light: StoriesAmazon ↗short-story-collection · 2024
Essays and speeches (1)
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A Little Brown Book of BurialsAmazon ↗fiction-and-essay-collection · 2015