Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, 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.

A Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny.

The effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in a young man's defence against a bully.

A family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed.

Lured in by fate, a father explores a mysterious tower and comes face to face with the creature imprisoned within.

Mourning 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.

Praise for John Langan:

‘A writer whose work will unnerve you as deeply as Shirley Jackson’s’ Washington Post

‘John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul… I fear he’s already got mine’ Stephen Graham Jones

‘Horror at its sharpest and most imaginative’ Paul Tremblay

‘A beast of a contemporary horror writer’ Laird Barron

‘One of the finest practitioners of the moody tale ... whenever John Langan publishes a book I am going to devour that book’ Victor LaValle