The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

The landmark collection by Laird Barron, once causing quite a stir in American horror. These stories are steeped in cosmic dread: beings that live beyond our universe remain unseen—yet sometimes manifest nearby, intruding into the most ordinary lives. A private detective is hired to uncover the origin of a mysterious series of photographs—perhaps capturing something otherworldly. During a classified government experiment into the paranormal, the military faces a genuine nightmare. In the 1930s, a Pinkerton agent hunts a serial killer—and finds the trail of a force far more bleak and dangerous. After a strange incident at an abandoned farm, a local entrepreneur tries to dig into its past, not realizing what abyss his curiosity will lead him into. These are stories about a reality that starts to crack, and through those fractures seeps an indescribable terror. Here, chaos can threaten anyone, and science can carve passageways into spaces alien to the human mind.