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Not a Speck of Light

Barron delivers hardboiled cosmic horror through dark tales, following a photographer haunted by his father’s eerie childhood games alongside weary protagonists confronting incomprehensible primordial terrors.

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Named One of the Best Horror Books of the Year by The New York Times , Esquire , NPR, and Paste !

It’s about to get very dark.

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

Bring a flashlight and a book of matches.

Where we’re going, there’s not a speck of light.

First published: 2024
Publisher: Bad Hand Books
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Book tags

Content warnings

Addiction
Alcohol Abuse
Animal Harm
Body Horror / Body Trauma
Child Abuse
Child Harm
Drug Use
Emotional Abuse
Gore
Graphic Violence
Misogyny
Stalking

Missing warnings do not mean other content is absent.

Horror profile

Scary: Not rated
Creepy: Not rated
Gore: Not rated
Disturbing: Not rated
Weird: Not rated

How we calculate this

These are editorial estimates of intensity, informed by reading and review evidence, then checked before publication. They aren't star ratings, reader-vote averages or a measure of quality.

Each dimension runs from 1 (low) to 5 (exceptionally intense). A 5 is reserved for strongly consistent evidence. People experience horror differently.

Scary: Fear, tension and immediate threat.
Creepy: Unease, dread and an uncanny atmosphere.
Gore: Graphic injury, blood and bodily detail.
Disturbing: Upsetting ideas and lingering psychological impact.
Weird: Surreal, strange and reality-bending elements.

We draw a filled profile only when all five scores have been reviewed. Unrated does not mean mild. Missing scores are not estimated from genre tags or your saved taste. This profile isn't a complete content-warning guide.