![]() ![]() The plot has echoes of many a crime story: Nanashi and his colleagues take a onetime wrestler, Muzaki, into their custody, awaiting further orders. Here, Barron’s protagonist is Nanashi, a killer caught between feuding crime families in Japan–in a manner of speaking. His latest novella, Man With No Name, continues in that tradition. ![]() ![]() Cthulhu.”) It was still recognizably Barron’s work, but a different facet of it. (I recommended it to a friend as “like the Hardy Boys by way of cosmic horror. ( An article by Adrian Van Young from 2013 on Barron’s work provides a great overview if you’re less familiar with his work.) Recently, Barron has been experimenting with new iterations of his style: last year’s X’s For Eyes followed the adventures of two brothers as they crossed the globe dealing with bizarre conspiracies and secret societies. It’s on the cosmic side of things, where visions and revenants expand minds and drive those who witness them away from sanity but it’s also laced with nuanced characters and a lived-in approach that seems borrowed from the best that crime fiction has to offer. If you’re familiar with Laird Barron’s fiction, you probably have a good idea of the corner of horror that he’s made his own. ![]()
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