{"title":"John Langan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Langan\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts deeply atmospheric tales that blend the eerie with the introspective, inviting readers into worlds where horror lingers beneath the surface of everyday life. His writing often explores the boundaries between memory, grief, and the supernatural, creating stories that resonate long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom unsettling narratives to haunting explorations of loss and survival, Langan’s work is essential for those drawn to \u003cem\u003eHorror \u0026amp; Supernatural\u003c\/em\u003e fiction that challenges the imagination and stirs the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"corpsemouth-and-other-autobiographies-by-john-langan-9781804369234","title":"Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Fisherman\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with ten tales of cosmic horror. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st-century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in a young man's defence against a bully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLured in by fate, a father explores a mysterious tower and comes face to face with the creature imprisoned within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMourning his death, a young man travels to his father's hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primaeval, corpse-eating titan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for John Langan:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘A writer whose work will unnerve you as deeply as Shirley Jackson’s’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul… I fear he’s already got mine’ \u003cb\u003eStephen Graham Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Horror at its sharpest and most imaginative’ \u003cb\u003ePaul Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘A beast of a contemporary horror writer’ \u003cb\u003eLaird Barron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘One of the finest practitioners of the moody tale ... whenever John Langan publishes a book I am going to devour that book’ \u003cb\u003eVictor LaValle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288408277228,"sku":"9781804369234","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11706643482830.jpg?v=1770549768"},{"product_id":"the-fisherman-by-john-langan-9781939905215","title":"The Fisherman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the \u003cem\u003eFisherman\u003c\/em\u003e. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47394263859436,"sku":"9781939905215","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18948533482878.jpg?v=1773618548"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/john-langan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}