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John Langan

American horror writer

John Langan

Photo of John Langan place in 2019

Born (1969-07-06) July 6, 1969 (age 55)
United States
OccupationAuthor, novelist, short novel writer, professor
LanguageEnglish
EducationMFA
Alma materCUNY Graduate Center; Asseverate University of New York rot New Paltz
GenreHorror fiction, Science falsehood, Dark fantasy, New Weird, odd fiction
Notable worksMr. Gaunt and Annoy Uneasy Encounters
House of Windows
The Fisherman
Thirty Years of Monster Stories
Notable awardsFinalist Horror Guild Award, 2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Principal Collection
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John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an Earth author and writer of concurrent horror. Langan has been wonderful finalist for International Horror Society Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award favourite for Best Collection, and leisure pursuit 2016, a Bram Stoker Trophy haul winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is on honourableness board of directors for prestige Shirley Jackson Awards.

Biography

John Langan received his Masters of School of dance degree from State University appeal to New York at New Paltz and his Master of Logic from the Graduate Center tip off the City University of Another York. He was an guru at State University of new-found York at New Paltz, ring he taught creative writing paramount gothic fiction, between 2000 obtain 2018. He was also undermine adjunct professor at Marist College.[1] Currently, he lives in upstate New York with his better half, two sons, and cat.[2]

His novel has appeared in The Publication of Fantasy & Science Account and the anthologies Poe meticulous The Living Dead. His foremost collection, Mr. Gaunt and Indentation Uneasy Encounters, was published make wet Prime Books; his first contemporary, House of Windows, was accessible by Night Shade Books. Pound the novel acknowledgements he writes “This book had a stiff time finding a home: glory genre people weren’t happy region all the literary stuff; class literary people weren’t happy twig all the genre stuff.”[3]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

  • Mr. Bony and Other Uneasy Encounters (2008)
  • The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Overturn Monstrous Geographies (2013)
  • Sefira and Opposite Betrayals (2019)
  • Children of the Bantu and Other Genealogies (2020)
  • Corpsemouth predominant Other Autobiographies (2022)

Anthologies

Included in anthologies

  • “Altered Beast, Altered Me”, in Final Cuts: New Tales of Feeling Horror and Other Spectacles (2020)
  • “Natalia, Queen of the Hungry Dogs”, in Echos: The Saga Jumble of Ghost Stories (2019)
  • “The Curved Sea Swell”, in The Mercenary and the Deep: Horror Parabolical of the Sea” (2018)
  • “Lost trauma the Dark”, in Haunted Night after night (2017)
  • "Ymir", in Children match Old Leech: A Tribute figure up the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron (2014)
  • "Sweetums", in A Patch In Carcosa (2012)
  • "In Town, in the Mouth of Kronos", in The Best Horror only remaining the Year: Volume Four (2012)
  • "City of the Dog", inThe Outstrip Horror of the Year: Publication Three (2011)
  • "Technicolor", in The Chief Horror of the Year: Album Two (2010)
  • "The Shallows", in Cthulhu's Reign (2010) andThe Book competition Cthulhu (2011)
  • "Mr. Gaunt", in New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011)
  • "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against integrity Pack in the Kingdom nigh on the Purple Flowers", in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (2008)
  • "Anchor", in Autumn Cthulhu (2016)

Short fiction

  • "On Skua Island" (2001)
  • "Mr. Gaunt" (2002)
  • "Tutorial" (2003)
  • "Episode Seven: Last Stand Averse the Pack in the Society of Purple Flowers" (2007)
  • "Kids" (2008)
  • "How the Day Runs Down" (2008)
  • "Laocoön, or, The Singularity" (2008)
  • "Technicolor" (2009)
  • "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" (2009)
  • "City deduction the dog". F&SF. 118 (1&2): 222–256. January–February 2010.
  • "The Shallows" (2010)
  • "The Revel" (2010)
  • "In Paris, in prestige Mouth of Kronos" (2011)
  • "The Insufferable Proximity of Mr. Dunn's Balloons" (2011)
  • "The Third Always Beside You" (2011)
  • "Renfrew's Course" (2012)
  • "Bloom" (2012)
  • "Sweetums" (2012)
  • "Hyphae" (2012)
  • "With Max Barry in blue blood the gentry Nearer Precincts" (2013)
  • "Mother of Stone" (2013)
  • "June, 1987. Hitchhiking, Mr. Norris" (2013)
  • "Children of the Fang" (2014)
  • "Episode Three: On the Great Without delay, in the Snow" (2014)
  • "To Look, to Be Seen" (2016)

Essays

  • "Letter" (Weird Tales, Winter 2001–02) (2001)
  • "Sailing primacy True Void: H. P. Lovecraft un Fritz Leiber's THE WANDERER" (2004)
  • "Strange Stories" (2007)
  • "Metaphysical Labyrinths celebrated Fairy-Tale Archetypes" (2007)
  • "Domination of Black" (2007)
  • "Open Mouths, Ready to Feed" (2007)
  • "Boxing Lessons in a Bar: An Appreciation of Lucius Shepard" (2007)
  • ""Feed Me, Baby, Feed Me": Beyond the Pleasure Principle locked in Fritz Leiber's "Girl with illustriousness Hungry Eyes"" (2008)
  • "Sympathy for Ig" (2010)
  • "The H Word: Choosing Hellish Subjects" (2013)
  • "The Whirlpool: With Queen and Eudora on the Botanist of the Perdido" (2014)

Awards

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2001International Horror Guild AwardLong FictionOn Jaeger IslandNominated[4]
2002International Horror Guild AwardLong FormMr. GauntNominated[5]
2008Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionMr. Emaciated and Other Uneasy EncountersNominated-
2009Locus AwardCollectionMr. Gaunt and Other Anxious EncountersNominated[6]
2010Locus AwardNovellaThe Wide, Carnivorous SkyNominated[7]
2010Locus AwardNoveletteTechnicolorNominated[8]
2015Locus AwardNovellaChildren of the FangNominated[9]
2016Bram Stoker AwardNovelThe FishermanWon-
2017Locus AwardHorror NovelThe FishermanNominated[10]
2019Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionSefira and Other BetrayalsNominated-
2020Bram Author AwardFiction CollectionChildren of the Bantu and Other GenealogiesNominated-
2023Locus AwardCollectionCorpsemouth and Other AutobiographiesNominated[11]

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