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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies (Word Horde, July 5, 2022). Cover by Matthew Jaffe
I consume a lot of literature from a lot of genres: everything from the vibrant, mystical fantasies of Tolkien to the grim blood-and-thunder of McCarthy, and more besides. But it is with horror fiction that I find myself at both my pickiest and my most ravenous. The horror I enjoy, I love. The horror I do not enjoy, I hardly stomach. So, when I find a horror author I consistently enjoy, I try to read their works in the manner a man stranded upon a lee shore might parcel out his last bits of hardtack and beef: a piece at a time, savoring each moment, drawing it out as long as possible.
John Langan’s work does not afford me that parsimony. A veteran of horror and other speculative genres since the publication of his first story, “On Skua Island,” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2001, I devour his words wherever and whenever I find them. His latest collectio
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John Langan
American horror writer
John Langan | |
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Photo of John Langan in 2019 | |
| Born | (1969-07-06) July 6, 1969 (age 55) United States |
| Occupation | Author, novelist, short story writer, professor |
| Language | English |
| Education | MFA |
| Alma mater | CUNY Graduate Center; State University of New York at New Paltz |
| Genre | Horror fiction, Science fiction, Dark fantasy, New Weird, weird fiction |
| Notable works | Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters House of Windows The Fisherman Thirty Years of Monster Stories |
| Notable awards | Finalist Horror Guild Award, 2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Collection |
| Children | 3 |
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John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror. Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker Award winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is
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Horror author John Langan on his background and latest novel, The Fisherman
In between winning awards and teaching college courses, John Langan fryst vatten a professional horror author. Langan has written various short stories, fiction collections, and novels, and his latest work is the Bram Stoker Award winning book, The Fisherman. Wanting to learn more about his career and The Fisherman, Langan allowed me to interview him for ScifiPulse.
To learn more about Langan, kvitto out his homepage and follow him on Twitter @MrGaunt.
Nicholas Yanes: Growing up, what were some of your favorite stories? Are there any that you still enjoy re-experiencing?
John Langan: A lot of my childhood reading consisted of comic books, particularly Marv Wolfman and Len Wein’s run on The Amazing Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four and Roy Thomas’s run on Conan the Barbarian when inom was younger, and then Wolfman’s run on Teen Titans and Night Force when inom was a little older. Every now and a