Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the
horror,
noir, or
horror noir and
dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York.[1]
Early life
Barron spent his early years in
Alaska.[2] He has described his youth as exceedingly harsh because his family was poor and lived in isolated areas.[3]
Career
In Alaska, Barron raced the
Iditarod three times during the early 1990s,[2] and worked as a fisherman on the
Bering Sea.[4]
He retired from racing and moved to Washington in 1994. He became active on the poetry scene,[1] publishing with a number of online journals and eventually serving as the managing editor of the Melic Review.[5] His professional writing debut occurred in 2001 when
Gordon Van Gelder published Shiva, Open Your Eye in the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Barron's debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was published in 2007 by Night Shade Books.
He has stated his affection for
pulp fiction,
westerns, and
noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the
Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."[6]
In addition to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Barron's work has been featured in SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards.
Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the
horror,
noir, or
horror noir and
dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York.[1]
Early life
Barron spent his early years in
Alaska.[2] He has described his youth as exceedingly harsh because his family was poor and lived in isolated areas.[3]
Career
In Alaska, Barron raced the
Iditarod three times during the early 1990s,[2] and worked as a fisherman on the
Bering Sea.[4]
He retired from racing and moved to Washington in 1994. He became active on the poetry scene,[1] publishing with a number of online journals and eventually serving as the managing editor of the Melic Review.[5] His professional writing debut occurred in 2001 when
Gordon Van Gelder published Shiva, Open Your Eye in the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Barron's debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was published in 2007 by Night Shade Books.
He has stated his affection for
pulp fiction,
westerns, and
noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the
Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."[6]
In addition to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Barron's work has been featured in SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards.