The black darkness of oblivion

Don Miller is happily married to a woman who is everything to him. At the same time, he has suffered from mysterious memory lapses all his life and rarely recalls some strange incidents from their past together. It is only at the end of his life that Don reveals, why they're afraid of the dark in the first place, why the basement door of a country house scares him so much, that his wife inherited, and all that lies in the surrounding woods... Laird Barron presents in this novel the most complete picture yet of his Lovecraftian horror myth of otherworldly creatures, called "The Children of the Old Leech." which he has already outlined in several cult stories. Quotes/expletives from the cover: "If I had to put money on who the best horror writer of our generation is, I'd say Laird Barron." - Michael Shea Laird Barron (*1970) is an American horror writer originally from Palmer, Alaska. He worked as a fisherman in the Berring Sea, and three times participated in the legendary Alaskan dog sled race with a musher called the Iditarod. He began writing in 2000 and has since published more than seventy shorter works, usually in the pages of F&SF magazine. His first collection, The Imago Sequence (2007), won the Shirley Jackson Prize. He also received the same award for his second collection Occultatíon and Other Stories (Occulta¬ce, 2010). His collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2013) earned him the Bram Sto¬ker Prize for Change for the first time. The most recent collection so far is Swift to Chase (2016). His gritty pulp novels Blood Standard (2018) and Black Mountain (2019) are also available in Czech translation. He is considered one of the best horror authors of the 21st century by horror experts and enthusiasts alike. Jiří Vyorálek (*1974) Born in Třebíč, he graduated from the JAMU in Brno. After his engagement at the local Theatre 7 and a half, he performed at the Husa na provázku Theatre, where he played e.g. the role of Hamlet or Prince Myshkin in the stage tetralogy The Hundred Years of the Cobra by F. M. Dostoyevsky directed by Vladimír Morávek. He was nominated for the Thalia Award 2007 for the ensemble performance of this cycle. Since 2013, he has been a member of the ensemble of Prague's Na zábradlí Theatre. On the television screen he attracted particular attention with his tragic portrayal of the "workers' president" Klement Gottwald in the miniseries The Czech Century and his key roles in the series The First Republic, Shadows in the Mist and, most recently, Seven Steps to Power. He portrayed other distinctive types in the films The Family is the Foundation of the State, Member, Men in heat, Masaryk, Milada, The eels are loaded, or The Alternate. Laird Barron: The Black Darkness of Oblivion | Read by Jiří Vyorálek | Directed by Jan Drbohlav | Sound, editing and mastering by David Pravda | Music by Pavel Holý | Recorded in the studio of S Pro Alfa CZ | CD graphics adapted from the original book cover by Yvone Baalbaki | Production by S Pro Alfa CZ | Supervision by Kateřina Višinská | Published by Euromedia Group, a. does - Témbr, in January 2024. The Croning © 2012 by Laird Barron | Published © Euromedia Group, a. does in the Laser edition, 2023.