Laird Barron Books in Order

Conrad Navarro fights in secret gladiatorial contests for wealthy patrons. When his FBI-agent sister disappears while investigating a notorious scientist, he follows her strange clues into an occult conspiracy that threatens both humanity and his own identity.

Nearly eighty, geologist Donald Miller begins confronting disturbing gaps and revelations in his seemingly fortunate life. Secrets surrounding his wife and grown children lead him toward ancient cults and the terrifying beings lurking beyond ordinary existence.

Young brothers Macbeth and Drederick inherit the dangers surrounding their family’s ruthless industrial empire. When corporate space research contacts an alien god, a cult and a rival company pursue them, turning their summer into a deadly struggle.

Yakuza enforcer Nanashi and a team of killers are ordered to abduct a retired wrestler protected by a rival syndicate. Their target’s terrifying secret turns a familiar criminal assignment into gang warfare and a journey toward supernatural darkness.

Twelve stories follow survivors, hunters, and troubled travelers through Alaskan wilderness, future empires, and occult threats. A fugitive massacre survivor, a missing actor, and a blizzard-bound killer reveal worlds where familiar dangers conceal something more disturbing.

Exiled from Alaska's criminal world, mob enforcer Isaiah Coleridge tries to build a quiet life in upstate New York. A teenage girl's disappearance pulls him back into the underworld and attracts precisely the attention he must avoid.

Hired by a mafia boss to investigate a mutilated body, private investigator Isaiah Coleridge uncovers another similar killing. The trail draws him toward a powerful corporation, a mysterious heiress, and a serial killer with a decades-long history.

Isaiah Coleridge investigates the suspicious death of a fugitive bodyguard's nephew. With partner Lionel Robard, he reaches a secretive upstate New York town where a stalled underground supercollider project conceals disturbing connections to powerful interests.

A seemingly ordinary assignment draws former mob enforcer Isaiah Coleridge into an unsettling convergence of music, film, and violence. As his investigation grows stranger, he confronts the possibility that some people can never escape their past.

Sixteen horror stories explore unsettling encounters and the darker edges of human experience. These strange tales bring together violence, the macabre, and threats beyond familiar reality, drawing readers into worlds where safety and certainty steadily erode.

Two sisters are hired to investigate whatever is killing pets in a declining town. Their assignment includes disposing of the creature if necessary, drawing them into a hunt for the threat stalking the neighborhood.

Nine horror stories pit ordinary people against an indifferent universe whose hidden forces threaten their lives and understanding. Familiar landscapes become unsettling places where grief, fear, and encounters with cosmic darkness undermine the possibility of security.

Interconnected horror stories bring supernatural menace into worlds of crime, espionage, and dangerous discoveries. Characters confront strange forces beneath familiar reality, where human violence and secrets become entangled with the threat of a vast, indifferent cosmos.

Nine tales pit spies, detectives, bounty hunters, and other vulnerable tough men against cosmic horrors. Hidden hive minds, distorted evolution, and encroaching chaos undermine ordinary reality, exposing human fragility within an indifferent and predatory universe.