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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

by John Langan
Matt Godfrey
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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.
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. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of twenty-first century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

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  • Release date

    August 15, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798350837032
      • File size: 374541 KB
      • Duration: 13:00:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 18, 2022
      Langan (The Fisherman) travels uncharted waters to explore distant shores of the weird and strange in this gripping collection of 11 eerie shorts. The subtly chilling opening story, “Kore,” in which a couple’s new house becomes a gateway for a cosmic entity at Halloween, sets the tone, pulling readers into a dark and fascinating world. In “Homemade Monsters” a boy uses a makeshift Godzilla figurine to ward off the school bully—to startling effect. The remarkable family drama “Shadow and Thirst” chronicles one boy’s tumultuous relationship with the many men who make up his father. Over the course of these masterful tales, Langan showcases his profound ability to put the intimate and the unexplainable in conversation with each other, his skill for intricate plotting, and his willingness to probe the hidden recesses of recognizable worlds. A helpful and extensive story guide gives insight into Langan’s process and will delight fans. On the weirder side of weird fiction, this collection has Langan firmly in his element.

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