Swift to Chase | 
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Introduction by Paul Tremblay.
Publishers Weekly top 10 list for most anticipated horror/sci-fi fall 2016 releases.
Laird Barron‘s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas.
You're looking for some two-fisted action-driven horror that's always veering cosmic horror-ward, then you can't do better than Laird Barron. Dude's got it, and he deals it out grim, and he never flinches, and he always tips his hat to those there before him. Don't know why I waited so long to dive into this one.
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Barron is an interesting & prolific author. Although most of his work falls into the transgressive horror category, he has recently been exploring other genres. I highly recommend watching the YouTube video of the reading @strandbookstore featuring Barron, Grady Hendrix & Ellen Datlow among others.
pickSwift To Chase is a short story collection that feels like a novel. There are connections between the stories, shared characters and locations and events, that make it feel like you're solving a puzzle as you read it. Only this is cosmic horror so the puzzle is unsolvable. But the writing is so good you won't care. My only complaint is that most of the best stories come in the first third of the book. But it's still worthy of a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 rating.
On the last story in this collection, hoping to finish it today or tomorrow.
I got that sense of unfriendly scrutiny, of being the object of a malevolent desire, how the coyote must feel as crosshairs zero in right before its brains are blasted out the other side, yet different, this was all around me.
You're a dancing star being dragged toward the black hole at the ragged edges of all we know. Drawn with irresistible force, you'll level anything in your path, or drag it to hell in your wake.
I've had my eye on this one for a while! Tonight I picked it up for when I finish Christine and/or The Troop.
