However, the stories themselves are the great attractions here. They really engender a love for the craft along with a great insight into the writing process. By far, this book contains some of the most interesting notes I’ve ever seen. All of this is wonderfully explained in the Story Notes you often find in the best Word Horde books. Many of the short stories in Langan’s collection connect back to the author’s childhood, family history, and interest. What do I mean by that? Well, the title of the collection is no misnomer. The latest short story collection from Langan is astounding, bringing its readers beautiful themes of family, nostalgia, hunger, and memory. To not do so would be a crime to weird fiction.Ĭorpsemouth and Other Autobiographies is no exception. More and more, I find that, if a book has Langan’s name on it, I have to purchase it and read it for myself. So far, every book and story I’ve read from the man is legendary.

Review: Like many horror fans, John Langan has become something of a good omen to me. Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Sarah Langan.Ĭontent Warnings: Gore, Body Horror, Child Death 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. John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies.

Summary: A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny a young man’s effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed a father explores a mysterious tower, and the monster imprisoned within a man mourning the death of his father travels to his father’s hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primeval, corpse-eating titan.

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