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John Langan
Photo of John Langan
Photo of John Langan in 2019
Born (1969-07-06) July 6, 1969 (age 54)
United States
OccupationAuthor, novelist, short story writer, professor
LanguageEnglish
EducationMFA
Alma materCUNY Graduate Center; State University of New York at New Paltz
GenreHorror fiction, Science fiction, Dark fantasy, New Weird, weird fiction
Notable worksMr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
House of Windows
The Fisherman
Thirty Years of Monster Stories
Notable awardsFinalist Horror Guild Award, 2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Collection
Children3
Website
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.[1] Currently, he lives in upstate New York with his wife, two sons, and cat.[2]

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.”[3]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Anthologies

Included in anthologies

Short fiction

Essays

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2014-09-10.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "The 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend". The 2009 Stoker Nominees. Archived from the original on 2014-08-13. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  3. ^ http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1597801526/1597801526.htm