From award-winning author John Langan comes this new Word Horde edition of his debut collection featuring tales both elegant and macabre, steeped in the tradition of the literary weird. Includes a brand new story exclusive to this edition!

John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. His second novel, The Fisherman, won the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror Awards. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during their first three years. He reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son, and is slowly disappearing into an office full of books. And more books.