Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

Home > Books > Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions
$21.99eBook: $9.99
Author: John Langan
Genres: Collections, Horror
Publisher: Word Horde
Publication Year: 2025
Format: Trade Paperback
Length: 304 pp
ISBN: 9781956252101

John Langan, author of Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Look for Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions coming this summer to independent booksellers in the US and Canada, and many online retailers.

About the Book


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.

Cover Art by Matthew Jaffe
Cover Design by Scott R. Jones

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-956252-10-1

Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 978-1-939905-79-6

About the Author

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.

Visit him online at johnpaullangan.wordpress.com.

Reviews

“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

Media Files

Sell Sheet: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions | 424KB PDF |

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the page above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."