The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

by John Langan

Description

Step into a series of nine unsettling horror tales where the landscape itself seems to hunger—zombie dread, vampire menace, cosmic wrongness, and supernatural terror all collide in Langan’s distinctive, lyrical style. Across each story, characters confront monsters that don’t just threaten the body, but warp perception, time, and the rules of reality, building tension through dread, discovery, and escalating consequence. From undead and mythos echoes to eerie, Lovecraftian-scale cosmic horror, these narratives explore themes of decay, the limits of human understanding, and the strange geography of fear. With mellifluous prose and a storyteller’s confidence, Langan delivers horror that is both meticulously crafted and relentlessly disturbing—an anthology for readers who want their monsters committed, their worlds broken, and their chills earned.

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Hippocampus Press

Published Jan 1, 2013

324 pages

ISBN: 9781614980544

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First Published

2013

Language

eng

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