Shirley Jackson Awards
3 appearances
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Edition 1 (2007) Winner
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Edition 4 (2010) Winner
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Edition 4 (2010) Winner
Laird Barron
レアード・バロン
Reādo Baron
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1970-03-05 （Palmer, Alaska, U.S.）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Alaska → Washington → Upstate New York
Career
- Occupations
- writer, poet, sled dog racer, fisherman
- Active Years
- 2000-2024
- Affiliations
- Melic Review (managing editor)
- Nominations
- 2009 Shirley Jackson Award nominee for novelette "Catch Hell", Crawford Award nominee, Sturgeon Award nominee, International Horror Guild Award nominee, World Fantasy Award nominee, Bram Stoker Award nominee, Locus Award nominee
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Shirley Jackson Award | The Imago Sequence and Other Stories | Best Collection | Shirley Jackson Awards | winner |
| 2010 | Shirley Jackson Award | Occultation and Other Stories | Best Collection | Shirley Jackson Awards | winner |
| 2010 | Shirley Jackson Award | Mysterium Tremendum | Best Novella | Shirley Jackson Awards | winner |
Shirley Jackson Award
2007
Work:
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Category:
Best Collection
Organization:
Shirley Jackson Awards
Result:
winner
Shirley Jackson Award
2010
Work:
Occultation and Other Stories
Category:
Best Collection
Organization:
Shirley Jackson Awards
Result:
winner
Shirley Jackson Award
2010
Work:
Mysterium Tremendum
Category:
Best Novella
Organization:
Shirley Jackson Awards
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
2007 horror, weird fictionDebut collection of stories.
supernatural horrorcosmic horror
Occultation and Other Stories
2010 horror, dark fantasyAward-winning collection of stories.
noirhorror noir
The Croning
2012 horror novelSecond novel.
ancient horrorsupernatural
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
2013 horror collectionCollection of stories.
weird fictionLovecraftian horror
Adaptations
- Story "-30-" adapted into film They Remain (2018)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- pulp fiction stylenoirhardboiled
- Recurring Motifs
- supernatural intrusionhorror elementsweird fiction
Legacy
American author of horror, noir, and speculative fiction. Multiple Shirley Jackson Award winner.
In Popular Culture
- Work adapted into film They Remain
Quotes
-
the Bible and the Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."
Source: Publishers Weekly interview (2010)
Trivia
- Raced the Iditarod three times in the early 1990s.
- Worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea.
- Spent harsh youth in isolated poverty in Alaska.