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Swift to Chase

por Laird Barron

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Introduction by Paul TremblayPublishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi 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.All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor's slice beyond our own.Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron's harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.… (más)
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An astonishing collection of pulp horror short stories. ( )
  Richard_Neary | Jan 15, 2022 |
Whoa. This was....incredibly complex.

And really frickin good.

I love Laird Barron's style. I love his seamless fusion of genres, his quick and hungry prose, his twisty interconnected macroverse. I love his character work, how each of his many, many characters have distinct personalities and motivations. I love how everything ties back into everything else so you feel like you may have to reread a few times to get all the connections figured out. Laird Barron's horror is horror done RIGHT, complicated and original and multifaceted. You want vampires? Aliens? Conspiracies? Serial killers? Ghosts? Far future cyborg warrior dogs? Well Barron's got them all and more.

And the care Barron shows to his characters is incredibly welcome in a genre that has some issues with creating disposable people who act only as canvases for brutality. Jessica Mace, Julie Vellum, even the unnamed narrator fleeing from the Wild Hunt are given complex and human motivations, reactions, relationships, and choices. Barron's dedication to creating well-rounded characters is exemplary for the genre as a whole.

Barron is one of my favorite writers in the genre today and this collection is more evidence as to why. ( )
  ElleGato | Sep 27, 2018 |
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Introduction by Paul TremblayPublishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi 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.All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor's slice beyond our own.Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron's harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.

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