The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

*The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All* by Laird Barron is the best cosmic horror I’ve read in a while.

*The Imago Sequence*, then *Occultation*, then *The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All*, and wrap it all up with *The Croning*. You’ll cover the length and breadth of his Child of Old Leech mythos that way.

Even still it was engrossing and brain-tickling in the way that only Barron can do cosmic horror.

If you're looking for short stories collections from single authors instead and you fancy a bit (or a lot) of cosmic horror you really can't go wrong with the early stuff from Barron (The Imago Sequence, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All)

You can even go: *Occultation and Other Stories* *The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All* *The Croning*

Of the list, "The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" was my favorite and also has the most 'lore' tie-ins to his dual universes mythos.

If you like cosmic horror à la Lovecraft you can't really go wrong picking from one of Barron's early anthologies: The Imago Sequence, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All etc.

If you like Lovecraft and are looking for a more sci-fi horror vibe: The beautiful thing that awaits us all - Laird Barron (or any Laird Barron anthology)

Some collections I've read and loved are *The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All*

I'm starting The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All tonight and I'm pumped.