Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

John Langan, Victor Lavalle

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Word Horde
05 August 2025

Horror & ghost stories; Short Stories Horror

A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned mine reveals stunning secrets; endnotes for a book review uncover a strange high-tech pathogen; a man witnesses something uncanny and unexplained as his friend succumbs to a watery death; a seasick woman aboard a ferry is pursued by a barnacle-covered specter; a professor reveals the mysterious connection between Joseph Conrad and Peter Pan; a man encounters the ghost of his lost sister in a liminal space between the land and sea; an academic meets a mythical creature on a mysterious island.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. 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.

Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Victor LaValle.

By: John Langan
Introduction by: Victor Lavalle
Imprint: Word Horde
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9781956252101
ISBN 10: 195625210X
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 05 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Langan is the author of two novels and six collections of stories. For his work, he has received the Bram Stoker and the This Is Horror awards. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and the late night calls of owls.

Reviews for Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

""This is an author at the height of his powers."" -Publishers Weekly, starred review ""John Langan's enviable range encompasses the whole panorama of horror, from the psychological to the cosmic, the monstrous to the deeply and movingly human, the insidiously disturbing to the thoroughly nightmarish. His imagination never falters or flinches, and his flavoursome prose is a literate pleasure to read."" -WHC Grand Master Ramsey Campbell ""There are certain writers who go straight to the top of my reading list, and John Langan is in that company. One of the finest and most surprising writers working in the tradition of the uncanny."" -Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love