Contributor(s): Author: John Langan Afterword by: Laird Barron Introduction by: Jeffrey Ford "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. Review citations Publishers Weekly - 04/29/2013.
The capstone to the collection is a previously unpublished novella of supernatural terror, "MOther of Stone."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.
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.
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.
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature.
Wide, Carnivorous Sky, indeed."-Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep and Swallowing a Donkey\'s Eye .
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.
His stories are fiercely smart, timely, timeless, heartbreaking, and of course, flat-out scary.
Contributor(s): Author: John Langan Afterword by: Laird Barron Introduction by: Jeffrey Ford "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
