Capsule Review Archive – The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
This review originally appeared on Goodreads on June 22, 2015.
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By Laird Barron – Night Shade Books – July 1, 2007
Review by Robin Marx
This anthology collects more unsettling weird tales by Laird Barron. The overall quality is high, but a couple of the stories suffer from being too obscure (“Procession of the Black Sloth,” which has a great atmosphere otherwise) or a little slight plot-wise (“The Royal Zoo is Closed”). “Old Virginia,” “Parallax,” and the title story are particularly strong and creepy. I continue to enjoy Laird Barron's brand of thoroughly modern Lovecraftian fiction that doesn't rely on Lovecraft's monsters.
★★★★☆
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