John Langan's most recent collection of stories, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, was published by Hippocampus Press in 2013. He is the author of a novel, House of Windows, and a collection, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and son.
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Deep in the Dragon’s Veins
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Monsters
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Mina and Lucy at the Waffle House
TAUT AND COMPELLING, Motherless Child, Glen Hirshberg’s excellent new novel, begins with a pair of young, single mothers out ...

Irony Black as the Spaces Between the Stars
THE CRONING, Laird Barron’s powerful, jagged new novel, opens with a variation on the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin. If ...
