quotI want to be like John Langan when I grow up okay He blends meticulously crafted traditional narratives with joyous genrebending and narrative rulebreaking His stories are fiercely smart timely timeless heartbreaking and of course flatout scary Langan fearlessly commits to his monsters his characters his readers to his vision of the horror story and the messedup broken frightening world we inhabit Wide Carnivorous Sky indeedquotPaul Tremblay author of The Little Sleep and Swallowing a Donkeys Eye John Langan has in the last few years established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature 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 This new collection of nine substantial stories includes such masterworks as quotTechnicolorquot an ingenious riff on Poes quotMasque of the Red Deathquot quotHow the Day Runs Downquot a gripping tale of the undead and quotThe Shallowsquot a powerful tale of the Cthulhu Mythos The capstone to the collection is a previously unpublished novella of supernatural terror quotMother of Stonequot With an introduction by Jeffrey Ford and an afterword by Laird Barron
