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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

by Laird Barron · 2007

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The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Proboscis" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

Genre
horrorfantasycosmic horrorweird fictionscience fiction
Themes
gothic
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 248 pages
Form
short storiesnovella

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