![]() ![]() But perhaps unique among fiction genres, horror involves facing those terrible realities, processing them into monsters that can bring deep eddies of understanding…all while never quite looking away from the mirror. ![]() Sure, horror provides an escape from life just as fantasy and science fiction do. Reading fictional horror can seem like overkill when the actual world is dripping with it. ![]() It’s everywhere: on your own street or in grainy images of unrest half the world away. I’d like to thank Laird again for the interview. If you’re stumbling across this and haven’t read his stuff, then start with The Imago Sequence and work your way forward. A few bits might be a little dated (obviously The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All has been out for months now), but there can’t be enough Barron interviews out in the wild. Since they’ve had it in their pages for a while, I’m finally sharing it here. The interview appeared in Shock Totem and can still be found in issue #7 of their great journal. Last year Laird Barron agreed to have a chat with me about his work and sundry other things. ![]()
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