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Book Review: The Croning.

May 13, 2012

Don Miller, the protagonist of Laird Barron’s debut novel The Croning, may be dismayed by the “dense and convoluted pattern” …

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This Is The Country You Live In.

April 22, 2012

His daughter, Haley, was to blame. Haley was only three, however, and it is generally considered unreasonable to blame a …

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Short Story Review: Teatro Grottesco

April 10, 2012

[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …

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Book Reviews: The Imago Sequence and Occultation.

November 16, 2010

Not only is there little serious literary criticism about Laird Barron on the internet, but there is also a shortage …

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Book Review: Ellen Datlow’s Poe.

October 20, 2010

The year is 2005 and we are undergraduate history students at the University of Edinburgh. Our American history tutor, Owen …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: The Call of Cthulhu.

August 19, 2010

One of the benefits of attending Michael Sabbaton’s “The Call of Cthulhu” is that I will be finally able to …

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