John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten tales of cosmic horror. 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.

A Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny.

The effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in a young man's defence against a bully.

A family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed.

Lured in by fate, a father explores a mysterious tower, and comes face to face with the creature imprisoned within.

Mourning his death, a young man travels to his father's hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primaeval, corpse-eating titan.

'A writer whose work will unnerve you as deeply as Shirley Jackson's' Washington Post

'John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul I fear he's already got mine' Stephen Graham Jones

'Horror at its sharpest and most imaginative' Paul Tremblay

'A beast of a contemporary horror writer' Laird Barron

'One of the finest practitioners of the moody tale ... whenever John Langan publishes a book I am going to devour that book' Victor LaValle

John Langan is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of The Fisherman, one previous novel, House of Windows, and three collections of stories: Sefira and Other Betrayals, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (Prime 2008). With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (Prime 2011). One of the co-founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he served as a juror for their first three years. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and a houseful of animals.