Summary: Laird Barron's Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All has received the fiction collection Bram Stoker. Congrats!
BLOT: (12 May 2014 - 12:06:00 PM)
Congrats to Laird Barron on his "Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection" Bram Stoker 2013 award!
Laird Barron's most recent collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, has picked up the Bram Stoker 2013 award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Congrats! Seems like just yesterday that I was getting monthly notices from Amazon taking guesses about when it would actually be released (I kid! But let's not ever forget the joys of a great book being delayed due to publishing chaos). Just in case you are somehow still on the fence about whether or not to read Barron, then I'll go ahead and remind you that You can read "Blackwood's Baby" for free through Baen's free-sample-chapter system (it is "Chapter 2" on their online version) [Note: you can change font settings through the drop-downs on the left menu]. You can also read my review of the book though I've intended to go back and write a final draft of that review (that's sort of my corrected draft, but I've intended to go back and tweak a bit here or there in the future, not sure if I ever will, mind).
What kind of saddens me is that outside of Beautiful Thing, and the Lifetime Award Winners—Stephen Jones and R.L. Stine!—and the King novel Dr. Sleep, I didn't really have any knowledge of the others. I have heard of Gray Friar Press and Joe McKinney's Dog Days, but that's it. A couple of years ago, I would have known half the books on the nominee list and nearly all the winners. I'm out of touch with my favorite genre. I blame Aickman and James and my going back and reading the early 20th century guys. It's all their fault!
OTHER BLOTS THIS MONTH: May 2014
