John Langan schafft zutiefst beunruhigende Erzählungen, die sich mit den tiefgreifenden menschlichen Erfahrungen von Verlust, Schuld und den zerbrechlichen Grenzen der Realität auseinandersetzen. Seine Arbeit verbindet meisterhaft atmosphärische Bedrohung mit psychologischer Tiefe und zieht die Leser in die beunruhigenden Räume, in denen das Übernatürliche in den Alltag eindringt. Langan zeichnet sich durch den Aufbau immersiver Welten und komplexer Charaktere aus, die sich mit existenziellen Ängsten auseinandersetzen. Seine Prosa ist sowohl viszeral als auch eindringlich und hinterlässt einen bleibenden Eindruck von Unbehagen und tiefgreifender Menschlichkeit.
Abe und Dan haben durch Krankheit und Unfall Frau und Familie verloren. In ihrer Trauer hilft ihnen das gemeinsame Angeln. Die Menschen der Gegend warnen sie jedoch vor einem ganz bestimmten Flussabschnitt, der auch als "Ort der Angler" bezeichnet wird. Dort steht der Liebe zu ihren Verstorbenen etwas Uraltes nahe ... Ein Meisterwerk neuzeitlicher Weird-Fiction! Ausgezeichnet mit dem Bram Stoker - Award!
Emphasizing a comprehensive array of reading and study skills essential for academic success, this resource offers instructors the versatility to meet diverse student needs effectively. It consolidates various skills into a single text, streamlining the teaching process and enhancing student learning outcomes.
A collection of horror short stories and the short novel Sefira; the short novel and the short story At home in the house of the Devil are original to this collection, the other six short stories have been previously published.
"The editor's claim that the first season of True Detective was a big inspiration for this anthology is evident: Ashes and Entropy sports a finely balanced mixture of grit, crime and blood along with the irrational, occult and weird."-Rue MorgueStand on the precipice and prepare to dive down through the event horizon into the bleak and mind-shattering void of both the cosmos and of humanity.Nightscape Press is proud to present ASHES AND ENTROPY edited by Robert S. Wilson, an anthology of cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir. ASHES AND ENTROPY is beautifully illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes brand new stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Nadia Bulkin, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max Booth III, Lynne Jamneck, Greg Sisco, Lisa Mannetti, Nate Southard, Erinn L. Kemper, Matthew M. Bartlett, Autumn Christian, and more.
This best-selling sentence-level worktext by John Langan continues to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, thoughtful writing. The seventh edition of Sentence Skills , Form B features a greater emphasis on prewriting and revision, a new chapter for non-native speakers, and much more!
Widely praised for its superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Longman Reader (formerly titled The Macmillian Reader ) remains the most successful rhetorically organized freshman composition reader. 58 outstanding selections represent a blend of favorite standards and fresh, new pieces on a variety of topics such as family life, education, technology, race, mass culture, and morality.
Exploring themes of connection and support, this book emphasizes the importance of community and shared experiences in overcoming challenges. It offers insights and encouragement for those feeling isolated, highlighting stories that resonate with the struggles of many. Through relatable narratives, readers are reminded of the strength found in unity and the comfort of knowing that others share similar journeys.
From award-winning author John Langan comes this new Word Horde edition of his debut collection featuring tales both elegant and macabre, steeped in the tradition of the literary weird. Includes a brand new story exclusive to this edition!
"I want to be like John Langan when I grow up, okay? He blends meticulously crafted traditional narratives with joyous genre-bending and narrative rule-breaking. His stories are fiercely smart, timely, timeless, heartbreaking, and of course, flat-out scary. Langan fearlessly commits to his monsters, his characters, his readers, to his vision of the horror story and the messed-up, broken, frightening world we inhabit. Wide, Carnivorous Sky, indeed."-Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep and Swallowing a Donkey's Eye. John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already garnered his share of accolades. This new collection of nine substantial stories includes such masterworks as "Technicolor," an ingenious riff on Poe's "Masque of the Red Death"; "How the Day Runs Down," a gripping tale of the undead; and "The Shallows," a powerful tale of the Cthulhu Mythos. The capstone to the collection is a previously unpublished novella of supernatural terror, "Mother of Stone." With an introduction by Jeffrey Ford and an afterword by Laird Barron.
"A family's Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man's effigy of a movie monster becomes intrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed; a father explores a mysterious tower, and the monster imprisoned within; a man mourning the death of his father travels to his father's hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primeval, corpse-eating titan." -- From publisher's description
