John Langan

{{Short description|American horror writer}}

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{{Infobox writer

| image = John Langan at Necronomicon PVD 2019.jpg

| caption = Photo of John Langan in 2019

| alt = Photo of John Langan

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|07|06}}

| birth_place = United States

| occupation = Author, novelist, short story writer, professor

| language = English

| death_date =

| death_place =

| 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

| notableworks = Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
House of Windows
The Fisherman
Thirty Years of Monster Stories

| spouse =

| children = 3

| awards = Finalist Horror Guild Award, 2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Collection

| website = {{URL|johnpaullangan.wordpress.com}}

}}

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 on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

Biography

John Langan received his Masters of Arts degree from State University of New York at New Paltz and his Master of Philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was an instructor at State University of new York at New Paltz, where he taught creative writing and gothic fiction, between 2000 and 2018. He was also an adjunct professor at Marist College.{{Cite web |url=https://www.marist.edu/registrar/catalog/pdfs/undergrad1415/adjunctfaculty.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912002302/https://www.marist.edu/registrar/catalog/pdfs/undergrad1415/adjunctfaculty.pdf |archive-date=2014-09-12 |url-status=dead }} Currently, he lives in upstate New York with his wife, two sons, and cat.{{cite web |url=http://www.lisamorton.com/stokers/awards.htm |access-date=2014-09-11 |work=The 2009 Stoker Nominees |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140813064349/http://www.lisamorton.com/stokers/awards.htm |archive-date = 2014-08-13|title=The 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend}}

His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the anthologies Poe and The Living Dead. His first collection, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, was published by Prime Books; his first novel, House of Windows, was published by Night Shade Books. In the novel acknowledgements he writes “This book had a hard time finding a home: the genre people weren’t happy with all the literary stuff; the literary people weren’t happy with all the genre stuff.”http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1597801526/1597801526.htm

Bibliography

=Novels=

=Collections=

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

=Anthologies=

=Included in anthologies=

=Short fiction=

  • "On Skua Island" (2001)
  • "Mr. Gaunt" (2002)
  • "Tutorial" (2003)
  • "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers" (2007)
  • "Kids" (2008)
  • "How the Day Runs Down" (2008)
  • "Laocoön, or, The Singularity" (2008)
  • "Technicolor" (2009)
  • "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" (2009)
  • {{cite journal |date=January–February 2010 |title=City of the dog |journal=F&SF |volume=118 |issue=1&2 |pages=222–256}}
  • "The Shallows" (2010)
  • "The Revel" (2010)
  • "In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos" (2011)
  • "The Unbearable 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 the Nearer Precincts" (2013)
  • "Mother of Stone" (2013)
  • "June, 1987. Hitchhiking, Mr. Norris" (2013)
  • "Children of the Fang" (2014)
  • "Episode Three: On the Great Plains, in the Snow" (2014)
  • "To See, to Be Seen" (2016)

=Essays=

  • "Letter" (Weird Tales, Winter 2001–02) (2001)
  • "Sailing the True Void: H. P. Lovecraft un Fritz Leiber's THE WANDERER" (2004)
  • "Strange Stories" (2007)
  • "Metaphysical Labyrinths and 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 in Fritz Leiber's "Girl with the Hungry Eyes"" (2008)
  • "Sympathy for Ig" (2010)
  • "The H Word: Choosing Gruesome Subjects" (2013)
  • "The Whirlpool: With Howard and Eudora on the Banks of the Perdido" (2014)

Awards

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YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2001International Horror Guild AwardLong FictionOn Skua IslandNominated{{cite web | url=https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | title=:: Ihg :: International Horror Guild :: Ihg :: }}
2002International Horror Guild AwardLong FormMr. GauntNominated{{cite web | url=https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html | title=:: Ihg :: International Horror Guild :: Ihg :: }}
2008Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionMr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy EncountersNominated-
2009Locus AwardCollectionMr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy EncountersNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}
2010Locus AwardNovellaThe Wide, Carnivorous SkyNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}
2010Locus AwardNoveletteTechnicolorNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}
2015Locus AwardNovellaChildren of the FangNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}
2016Bram Stoker AwardNovelThe FishermanWon-
2017Locus AwardHorror NovelThe FishermanNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}
2019Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionSefira and Other BetrayalsNominated-
2020Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionChildren of the Fang and Other GenealogiesNominated-
2023Locus AwardCollectionCorpsemouth and Other AutobiographiesNominated{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/John_Langan | title=Sfadb : John Langan Awards }}

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